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.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Lore, pours a clear copper with a s all white head. Aroma has plenty of musty yeast, rustic notes, and a touch of oak. Flavour is highly acidic, with some oaky barrels, light rustic notes, and intense citric acid. Way too acidic—how is this happening without fruit? Needs fixing.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Sep 2025
at 05:35
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Lore pours a clear copper golden, no head. Nose has some musty, grainy yeast, and a touch of citric acid from the oranges. Flavour is moderately acidic, with plenty of blood orange acidity, dirty grains, and rustic notes. A bit too acidic, not carbonated enough, and lacking depth. Okay.
Tried
from Draft
at
Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)
on 13 Sep 2025
at 05:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Lore, pours a clear dark red with a tiny head. Aroma has musty blueberry skins, rustic saison yeast, and light acidity. Flavour has some dry, juicy blueberry skins, moderate acidity, and rustic notes. Moderately acidic, reasonable blueberry character, just not that cohesive.
Tried
from Draft
at
Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)
on 13 Sep 2025
at 05:29
4/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 5
Overall 4
750mL bottle. Pours clear gold with a white head. Weird yeast expression, like moldy vegetables a bit. Flavour is fucked, like there was a mold growth in the tank; acidic, bad must, rotting vegetables. This is really just not good.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)
on 12 Sep 2025
at 13:32
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at the brewery. Pours clear gold with a white head. Musty sheep wool and earthy yeast on the nose. Flavour has a damp wool character and some lemon juice acidity. Not really a fan of how the yeast comes across and the beer itself doesn't have much depth.
Tried
from Draft
at
Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)
on 12 Sep 2025
at 11:49
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at the brewery. Pours clear dark gold with a white head. Earthy yeast, sour mold, and some acetone on the nose. Flavour has a sour yeasty character, lots of acidity, some blood orange, and a vein of acetone. Not great.
Tried
from Draft
at
Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)
on 12 Sep 2025
at 11:48
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 5
Overall 5
On tap at the brewery. Pours clear pale gold with a white head. Earthy yeast, some damp wool, and some acidity on the nose. Flavour has earthy yeast, lemon acidity, and tons of acetone. The acetone is really hard to get past.
Tried
from Draft
at
Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)
on 12 Sep 2025
at 11:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours clear dull red with a white head. Earthy and acidic nose; some blueberry. Flavour is pretty acidic, grassy underripe blueberries, earthy yeast. It's okay, but the acidity leaves it pretty unbalanced and with less character than I'd have liked from the blueberries.
Tried
from Draft
at
Trial & Ale Brewing (Lore)
on 12 Sep 2025
at 11:46
6/10
Prickly pears, tart, some funk to it! Not the biggest fan, unfortunately.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Aug 2025
at 19:13
8/10
Tart, funky, gooseberry
Tried
from Can
on 24 Aug 2025
at 20:32