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Chilly Water
Trinity Brewing Company
- From:
- Trinity Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
Ranked #133 - ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #19,951 - Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 15.57%
- Reviews:
- 18
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 07, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 14, 2012
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 6
This style is a bottom fermented lager traditionally brewed in Northern Europe. We age our interpretation on Bourbon Barrels (American Oak), which imparts a certain dryness accompanied by rich toffee flavors!
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Ratings by st9647v3:
Rated by st9647v3 from New Jersey
3.77/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 30, 2015
3.77/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 30, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by tradershmulie from Connecticut
2.79/5 rDev -26.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.79/5 rDev -26.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Eh.
Not good.
Looks good enough. Decent pour, ok head.
Taste is just not good. Porter is usually a style that I enjoy, but this is just not enjoyable.
May 07, 2023Not good.
Looks good enough. Decent pour, ok head.
Taste is just not good. Porter is usually a style that I enjoy, but this is just not enjoyable.
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
1.54/5 rDev -59.4%
look: 3 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
1.54/5 rDev -59.4%
look: 3 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
Pours a foamy 1 finger bubbly brown head with moderate retention, a bit of lacing, decent legs, basically jet black color
Nose is bad, definite infection, cherry, sour cherry, general fruity aromas, buttered popcorn diacetyl, sour acidic funk, yeast, ash, just bad
Taste is also infected, sour funky yeasty mess, alcohol, diacetyl, a little butyric acid baby vomit thing, there are hints of chocolate and roasty malt, but otherwise horrible infection
Mouth is slimy and boozy, higher foamy carb
Overall horrible, not even a savable infection, I can't get more than a couple sips. Really really sad I spent a fair amount of money on this, and it was deep in CT so I can't go back to get my money back. There's no way this brewery didn't know that it was infected when they bottled it, so either they are horribly incompetent, or giant douches, but either way I'm never buying a beer from this place again!
May 15, 2022Nose is bad, definite infection, cherry, sour cherry, general fruity aromas, buttered popcorn diacetyl, sour acidic funk, yeast, ash, just bad
Taste is also infected, sour funky yeasty mess, alcohol, diacetyl, a little butyric acid baby vomit thing, there are hints of chocolate and roasty malt, but otherwise horrible infection
Mouth is slimy and boozy, higher foamy carb
Overall horrible, not even a savable infection, I can't get more than a couple sips. Really really sad I spent a fair amount of money on this, and it was deep in CT so I can't go back to get my money back. There's no way this brewery didn't know that it was infected when they bottled it, so either they are horribly incompetent, or giant douches, but either way I'm never buying a beer from this place again!
Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
1/5 rDev -73.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1/5 rDev -73.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
On tap. Tan head. Little lace. Dark brown color.
This has to be infected. Has a slight sour cherry twang to it. No bourbon, no oak, no vanilla. Doesn’t taste like a Baltic. Terrible. Couldn’t finish 5 oz.
Jul 15, 2021This has to be infected. Has a slight sour cherry twang to it. No bourbon, no oak, no vanilla. Doesn’t taste like a Baltic. Terrible. Couldn’t finish 5 oz.
Reviewed by sjdevel from Utah
3.85/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Look: Very dark black and pours pretty thick. Low on carbonation. Decent foam ring that hangs around.
Smell: Dark fruit that has ripened / soured. Charred oak, coffee, and hints of chocolate. Pretty subdued though.
Taste: Slight bitterness at first. A slightly sour flavor comes forward. I get some Bourbon, but not over powering. Nice smokey flavor from dark roasted grains and charred wood from a barrel. Has a rich and nutty flavor (almost like a bit of peanut butter).
Feel: Pretty flat - Low-Medium bodied.
Overall: A decent brew from Trinity. I've had some much better ones and they are more widely known for sours/saisons. But this is a decent drinking beer.
May 07, 2017Smell: Dark fruit that has ripened / soured. Charred oak, coffee, and hints of chocolate. Pretty subdued though.
Taste: Slight bitterness at first. A slightly sour flavor comes forward. I get some Bourbon, but not over powering. Nice smokey flavor from dark roasted grains and charred wood from a barrel. Has a rich and nutty flavor (almost like a bit of peanut butter).
Feel: Pretty flat - Low-Medium bodied.
Overall: A decent brew from Trinity. I've had some much better ones and they are more widely known for sours/saisons. But this is a decent drinking beer.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
375ml, red wax capped bottle. Yay! Not a sour, session ale, or saison! Am I actually looking forward to fall and winter? Maybe I am, maybe I am.
This beer pours a pretty solid black, with faint orange cola basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some decent roiling wavecrest lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of bittersweet chocolate, gritty roasted caramel malt, a complex sweet nuttiness, vanilla-forward Bourbon barrel wood, further free-agent ash, faint black coffee, and perhaps a notion of citrusy and piney hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, more delicately indulgent nuts, an emerging black orchard fruitiness, ethereal vanillan whiskey barrel staves, some hard to pin down earthy spice, and a weak, but welcome all the same, grassy and citrusy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate tingling and otherwise supportive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, just a bit of char taking a chink out of the armor here. It finishes off-dry, as the now almost sour coffee-laced milky character starts to compete with the lingering chocolate and caramel notes.
Overall, this is one of the better iterations of the style that I have come across, nice and robust, and easy to drink. I wouldn't go and put it up against the LTM Grande Cuvée Porter Baltique (mostly due to home field advantage), but Chilly Water is a damned fine brew, with a tongue in cheek moniker that I am just now starting to appreciate.
Aug 29, 2016This beer pours a pretty solid black, with faint orange cola basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some decent roiling wavecrest lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of bittersweet chocolate, gritty roasted caramel malt, a complex sweet nuttiness, vanilla-forward Bourbon barrel wood, further free-agent ash, faint black coffee, and perhaps a notion of citrusy and piney hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium cocoa powder, cafe-au-lait, more delicately indulgent nuts, an emerging black orchard fruitiness, ethereal vanillan whiskey barrel staves, some hard to pin down earthy spice, and a weak, but welcome all the same, grassy and citrusy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate tingling and otherwise supportive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, just a bit of char taking a chink out of the armor here. It finishes off-dry, as the now almost sour coffee-laced milky character starts to compete with the lingering chocolate and caramel notes.
Overall, this is one of the better iterations of the style that I have come across, nice and robust, and easy to drink. I wouldn't go and put it up against the LTM Grande Cuvée Porter Baltique (mostly due to home field advantage), but Chilly Water is a damned fine brew, with a tongue in cheek moniker that I am just now starting to appreciate.
Chilly Water from Trinity Brewing Company
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
73 ratings
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