Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
[Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm] Bronze colour, creamy head. Rich hoppy aroma of grapefruit and apricot. Sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Notes of caramel and a wealth of hop derived pineapples. Medium bitterness.
gnoff (11188) reviewed Freedom Trail India Pale Ale from Tremont Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
(Bottle at Delirium Cafe in Gothenburg) Clear brown color with a white head. Sweet malty scent. Sweet and bitter taste. High bitterness.
patrick767 (7169) reviewed Tremont Ale from Tremont Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
draft - Pours copper with a slim head. There’s a touch of floral hops and some malt in the light aroma. The flavor is mildly hoppy, but caramel malt is the main feature. The finish is dry. This one’s an okay session brew, but if you’re somewhere that has it, you can probably choose something better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Best before Oct 2006 bottle consumed on 5/26/06.Foamy white head is formed from a large amount of forced carb. It does do quite the job, as it’s slow to recede and even provides light lacing. You can smell the sweet sugars and dextrins that create it, as well. The body is a bright amber-honey with deep notes of brass. Head fades to nothing and a ring, fairly rapidly though.The nose is butter and hops. So much hops that you almost don’t mind the butter. Simple, light crystal malts and tons of sweet pale malts certainly add balance. Leafy and herbal, with fresh wintergreen-like notes. Hoppy and quite well aromatic, but the butter invades.Quite hoppy, I suppose you could almost say assertively so, for an English hopped beer, but it tastes like some grapefruit as well. Tons of caramel sweetness balances and adds plenty of body, but the carbonation is large and loose. Quite bitter and not at all an incompetent IPA. Probably more to Shipyard keeping the recipe unchanged and less because it’s brewed by Shipyard. Without Shipyard’s poor use of Ringwood and the filtration and pasteurization, this could be some top-notch stuff. It’s certainly plenty more clean and dry than Shipyard’s Fuggles IPA. Not as insipidly sweet either, as the hops provide a high amount of cleansing bitterness and dry, herbal-citrus flavor. Smooth mouthfeel, fresh overall and well-attenuated. No alcohol noted in aroma or flavor.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Tremont Ale from Tremont Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
This beer came in by beer club. I have not encountered it before. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright copper color with a medium sized yellow-tan head that fades fairly quickly. The aroma is lightly nutty and has a vague floral hop presence. The flavor is sour nut with a tangy floral hop center and a dry nutty finish. The dryness lingers.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
2005 bottle. Drank between about 50-60 degrees out of a tulip. Pour reveals a very clear, copper-goldenrod colored beer with no head and some sparse bubbles on the edges. Low carbonation in the liquid, with a lone bubble rising here and there. Smells first like a crisp, wheat note, light yeast and then flowers. Soft and heathery. But then quickly following up the pleasant floral aroma is some butter and salt. Taking a drink, I find dry, papery astringency and a thick, sluggish palate, not at all refreshing. Too little carbonation, though what is there gives it a foamy sort of texture on the end. Flavors of butter and clover honey mix together, with some sourness coming from somewhere. A bit of dry pale malt, hints of sweetness and just a touch of floral bitterness on the end. Rather bland and boring, in my opinion. Reminds me somewhat, of Sam Spring Ale, which I also can’t stand. It’s got that spice-meets-butter thing going and there’s no real substance. Thank you, Shipyard, for ruining what looks like must have been a good brand.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Winter Ale from Tremont Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2004 bottle, just hit the shelves. Dark brown-burgundy, with dark ruby highlights. Highly filtered. Small fizzy beige head, rapidly disipating. Tiny bubbles, clear body. Aroma of butter toffee, peanut brittle, strong yeast, malted milk. Pretty strong and lasting. Flavor begins with that same buttery/toffee-like note, with a hint of fruitiness; light cherries, strawberries and raspberries. Quickly, some light notes of bitterness arise; just a quick hint of orange rinds, really. The more I drink, and the more it warms, I notice two distinct things. First, it has a very strong black cherry essence towards the finish, quite pleasant. Secondly, there is a good deal of alcohol apparency on the very finish. I don’t know if this is exacerbated by some lightly bitter hops, but it is there, and seems to disrupt the lightly fruity, smooth body. I enjoy the fact that the sweetness is kept in check in this one. Some round fruity sugars, mix with a very dry toffee/caramel malt. Some notes of caramel corn on the end as well, like that taste you get in your mouth when you are chewing on the sheath of the corn kernel; you know, the ones that get stuck between your teeth. It’s dry, somewhat papery. Interesting beer here. This should be categorized as an English Strong Ale it seems. I will reiterate, I love the fruitiness from the yeast, but it’s a little too filtered and strikes a bit of a boring (by the end of the bottle) unwavering note.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Tremont Ale from Tremont Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
2004 bottle at Parrish Cafe in Boston. Pours a light brown with some light auburn tinges. Medium yellow/white head. Aroma of soft soily hops and barley. Filtered color. Flavor is hoppy but not overly acidic. Hints of dry barley, light caramel and toffee notes with plenty of grainy texture. For a session pale, this stuff is dynamite. Flavor is crisp, flavorful and has no major flaws. Palate shows a medium body, light wateriness, with a good soft carbonation.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Freedom Trail India Pale Ale from Tremont Brewery 25 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Someone smuggled this into the Chicago Real Ale fest last year and I was the benefactor. However, in face of the world's greatest beer fest, Tremont IPA was simply outclassed.