Trial & Ale Brewing

Microbrewery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)

Established in 2020

Contact
17850 106a Ave NW Suite 100, Edmonton, AB T5S 1V8,, Canada
Description
Based in Edmonton, AB, we’ve set up our production brewery to be 100% exclusive to mixed fermentation sour and wild beers. Our initial barrel investment allows us to guarantee that all of our beers spend time on oak during the maturation period before they are released. Additionally, all of our beers go through a minimum four stage fermentation lifecycle: initial primary fermentation, secondary fermentation on oak, a homogenizing fermentation after blending, and finally a fourth fermentation in bottle to produce the tight, silky effervescence characteristic of these unique beer styles. Some releases will also include a fifth fermentation (fruited blends) between the other fermentation steps.

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5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

17th April 2023; Shrewsbury Beer Exchange in Chez Sophie, five guys drinking and chatting with plenty of snacks. Cork and caged Summer 2021 version, cheers Mark. Hazy orange body, fast fading white head. It's a sour-puss for sure and pretty acidic in nature, not my sort of beer but I can understand others liking it.

Tried from Can on 18 Apr 2023 at 07:23


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pale amber with a slight haze, tart, a bit of candyish sweetness, light brett, acidic dry finish.

Tried from Can on 26 Mar 2023 at 05:09


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

7-3-7-3-14 Bottle. Pours dark orange, with a creamy, short lived head. Aroma is slightly tart fruity notes of currants, strawberries and musty fruit peel, as well as funky stone fruits, , floral brett and wooden notes Medium body, with soft to average carbonation. Flavour is lactic fruity notes with rhubarb, currants and funky fruits, as well as bretty farmhouse and wooden barrels. Tart, dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2023 at 10:48



5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

750mL bottle sampled at Weathered 2023, pours a clear ros� colour with a small white head. Aroma brings out dusty grapes, light funk, and sourness. Flavour is acidic, with tart cherries, light grapes, and sourness. It's a bit off-kilter and not really hitting the right notes, but it's fine.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2023 at 07:25


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

750mL bottle sampled at Weathered 2023, pours a clear bright golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out a nice wild funk, with stone fruits, and all sorts of bugs. Flavour is buggy and pleasantly tart, with lots of stone fruits, bugs, and a bit of acetone. Too acidic, but the funk and stone fruit is very nicely expressed.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2023 at 07:24


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Vinmonopolet, Lillehammer. Clear red with a small white head. Aroma is dry, malty, bretty, wood and dragonfruit. Flavor is medium sweet and rather acidic. Dry and rather acidic finish. Better than expected. 120223

Tried from Bottle on 12 Feb 2023 at 17:02


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Cloudy. A bit of fruitiness, oxidation, honey, sourish, lacto.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Dec 2022 at 15:14


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Notes from FHF 2022 (Aug 06, 2022): Hazy orange with small white head, touch of sediment. A kelp-y seaweed note (must be the combo of prickly pear and salt). Kind of nice, but wouldn't buy a bottle.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Oct 2022 at 07:22


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Notes from FHF 2022 (Aug 06, 2022): Hazed orange gold with small white head. Get a bit of sea buckthorn with mild funk, decent.

Tried on 22 Oct 2022 at 07:02