Cutting Tiles (Galaxy) | Trillium Brewing Company
Brewed by:
Trillium Brewing Company
Massachusetts, United States
trilliumbrewing.com
Style: American Double / Imperial IPA
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 8.50%
Availability: Rotating
Notes / Commercial Description:
Cutting Tiles is an exploratory series of Double IPA's featuring a range of aromatic single hop varietals brewed with raw wildflower honey. This familiar first version, formally known as Artaic, is dosed with 100% Galaxy in all kettle, whirlpool and two massive dry hop additions. The local wildflower honey keeps the body light and drinkable but provides a floral, earthy backbone. Juicy, candied peach and nectarine up front backed up with a nuanced white wine on the nose that continues straight through in the flavor profile. Pillowy soft mouthfeel, with a restrained bitterness on the finish. New variants to follow!
MALT: Pilsner, White Wheat, Flaked Wheat, Dextrine, C-15
HOPS: Galaxy
Added by ThatsThatDude on 08-16-2016
Ratings: 285 | Reviews: 47
4.33/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
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4.25/5 rDev -6.2%
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4.25/5 rDev -6.2%
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4.5/5 rDev -0.7%
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4.54/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
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4.15/5 rDev -8.4%
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4.74/5 rDev +4.6%
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4.58/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
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4.75/5 rDev +4.9%
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4.5/5 rDev -0.7%
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4.46/5 rDev -1.5%
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4.6/5 rDev +1.5%
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.25/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.5/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.4/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Thanks to DustinGalvin for this 16 oz. can that arrived with friends…I’m getting through them as fast as my liver can take. Canned 4/19/17.
The pour is more pineapple juice that orange juice, do I knock a NE IPA points for that? Nose is that tropical fruit thing cut with plenty of sweetness & lots of flowers. I came home to some gorgeous purple flowers in the section of my backyard jungle I’ve reclaimed, so I’m feeling the plant kingdom right now.
Cutting Tiles - Galaxy tastes like I want my wife’s nipples to taste. Wild jungle mango & zesty orange peel come out on top of this Tahitian delight. Moderate bitterness mid-palate is tempered by long, languid sweetness (Honey, I presume - a pleasure). Citrus arrives late. I could drink gallons of this, preferably next to a good Belgian waffle with bourbon-barrel maple syrup. Or sitting in my undies on the couch. Whichever.
I haven’t always received the panting loveliness the hype machine suggests from Trillium’s beers, but this one delivers in spades (if spades were the color & taste of pineapples, of course). Excellent brew.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Thanks to DustinGalvin for this 16 oz. can that arrived with friends…I’m getting through them as fast as my liver can take. Canned 4/19/17.
The pour is more pineapple juice that orange juice, do I knock a NE IPA points for that? Nose is that tropical fruit thing cut with plenty of sweetness & lots of flowers. I came home to some gorgeous purple flowers in the section of my backyard jungle I’ve reclaimed, so I’m feeling the plant kingdom right now.
Cutting Tiles - Galaxy tastes like I want my wife’s nipples to taste. Wild jungle mango & zesty orange peel come out on top of this Tahitian delight. Moderate bitterness mid-palate is tempered by long, languid sweetness (Honey, I presume - a pleasure). Citrus arrives late. I could drink gallons of this, preferably next to a good Belgian waffle with bourbon-barrel maple syrup. Or sitting in my undies on the couch. Whichever.
I haven’t always received the panting loveliness the hype machine suggests from Trillium’s beers, but this one delivers in spades (if spades were the color & taste of pineapples, of course). Excellent brew.
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4.74/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.67/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
5/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
This is definitely one of the top three beers I've ever drank. It begins with a very complex feel of mango, peach, and melon which is followed by a slight hop bitterness, which is then washed away with honey sweetness. When I think about New England style double ipas, this is the Hallmark.
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
This is definitely one of the top three beers I've ever drank. It begins with a very complex feel of mango, peach, and melon which is followed by a slight hop bitterness, which is then washed away with honey sweetness. When I think about New England style double ipas, this is the Hallmark.
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4.5/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Cutting Tiles (Galaxy) from Trillium Brewing Company
4.53
out of 5
based on 285 ratings.
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5