Trillium Brewing Company
Regional Brewery
in
Canton,
Massachusetts,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 6 Venues
Established in 2011
Contact
Description
Trillium Brewing Company was founded by JC and Esther Tetreault, a young dumb couple in love, planning their wedding and dreaming about how they would spend their lives together. The desire to build a brewery was about more than just making beer, it was about creating a way of life and building a community with which to share experiences. A beer geek and botany nerd, JC chose the trillium flower to represent what we strive to bring to our beer and our lives: beauty, strength, simplicity, and balance. We operate a brewery and taproom in Canton, MA as well as a full service restaurant and brewery in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. We also operate seasonal pop-up beer gardens around the city of Boston under the Trillium Garden project.
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle shared. Pours cloudy light orange with an off white head. Aroma of massive citrus, tropical fruits, lychee, peach and mango. Flavour is light moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation. Lovely stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2015
at 12:39
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bomber courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Big thanks. Tropical fruit aroma. Thick creamy white head. Cloudy blond pour. Lovely bitterness. Wow. Great.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2015
at 12:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared@CBC Clerkenwell, London (03/06/2015) - hazy orange coloured pour with white head. Aroma and taste is a medley of juicy tropical and citrus fruits, hoppy and malty, some light caramel, orange, grapefruit and peach, pine needles, hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2015
at 05:37
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Growler shared@CBC Clerkenwell, London (03/06/2015) - golden orange pour with a white head. Aroma and taste is a medley of sweet juicy tropical and citrus fruits, prominent grapefruit, tangerine, citrus peel, piny, with good sweet malty backbone, light caramel sweetness, resinous hoppy towards the finish. Beautiful.
Tried
from Growler
on 23 Jun 2015
at 05:36
8/10
Tried
on 23 Jun 2015
at 03:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle split at #arch thanks to Leighton, 19/06/15. Light black with a decent tan covering. Nose is earthy cocoa, coffee grinds, charr, toffee, light spice. Taste comprises chocolate, light roast, green pepper, molasses, toffee fudge. Medium + bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid enough impy but doesn’t come close to their hopshit !
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2015
at 02:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
32oz growler filled 6/8/15, drunk 6/14/15
And here I was ready to write off all of these "different" dry-hopped versions of Sunshower as just one [not so hot] batch with very marginal variations from the hops. Granted, the Galaxy didn’t taste all that much different from the previous two, but what it did lack was that big cotton candy, aspartame-like sweetness mixed with too much punchy sweet tart-like candied fruitiness.
The aroma was still a mixed bag for me (and my friend who had some), with some raw yeastiness and very inelegant esters (canned peach, spoiling apricot). Light citrus and mango somewhat elevate but it still seems too messy. No alcohol in the nose, at least.
The flavor, for whatever reason, is MUCH cleaner than the others. Instead of the cotton candy and sweet tarts, it’s a more dry, hop centered strong ale-like flavor. Not overly Belgian, again, but the hops are done well, adding moderate bitterness but no resin (mangoes, starfruit, cherries, oranges). Carbonation is a little tighter, or perhaps it just feels so, having less yeast and/or hop particle slickness in the mouthfeel.
So, more of just a strong, hoppy pale ale here. Definitely not rating this as a super saison, even, on which, it would score much worse. Either this is a second batch fermented a bit longer/lower temps, or (likely) this one just had more time to condition before its release. The beer looked in better condition, as well, having only a light haziness to its soft copper-tangerine juice color. White head was large and slowly receded to cover.
And here I was ready to write off all of these "different" dry-hopped versions of Sunshower as just one [not so hot] batch with very marginal variations from the hops. Granted, the Galaxy didn’t taste all that much different from the previous two, but what it did lack was that big cotton candy, aspartame-like sweetness mixed with too much punchy sweet tart-like candied fruitiness.
The aroma was still a mixed bag for me (and my friend who had some), with some raw yeastiness and very inelegant esters (canned peach, spoiling apricot). Light citrus and mango somewhat elevate but it still seems too messy. No alcohol in the nose, at least.
The flavor, for whatever reason, is MUCH cleaner than the others. Instead of the cotton candy and sweet tarts, it’s a more dry, hop centered strong ale-like flavor. Not overly Belgian, again, but the hops are done well, adding moderate bitterness but no resin (mangoes, starfruit, cherries, oranges). Carbonation is a little tighter, or perhaps it just feels so, having less yeast and/or hop particle slickness in the mouthfeel.
So, more of just a strong, hoppy pale ale here. Definitely not rating this as a super saison, even, on which, it would score much worse. Either this is a second batch fermented a bit longer/lower temps, or (likely) this one just had more time to condition before its release. The beer looked in better condition, as well, having only a light haziness to its soft copper-tangerine juice color. White head was large and slowly receded to cover.
Tried
from Growler
on 21 Jun 2015
at 11:08
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours dark brown tan head. Nose/taste of oak, sour earth, dark cherry, grape and chocolate - medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 15:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared. Pours cloudy dull golden with an off white head. Aroma of pine, citrus, fruits, weedy hops and grapefruit. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 03:56
8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared at the pre-Zebra breakfast beer NS tasting. Pours murky yellow brown with a white head. Aroma of massive mango, tropical fruits, citrus and peach. Flavour is light sweet and over moderate bitter. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 03:06