Cutting Tiles - Galaxy
Trillium Brewing Company

Cutting Tiles - GalaxyCutting Tiles - Galaxy
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From:
Trillium Brewing Company
 
Massachusetts, United States
Style:
New England IPA
Ranked #44
ABV:
8.5%
Score:
100
Ranked #169
Avg:
4.51 | pDev: 6.21%
Reviews:
86
Ratings:
613
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 10, 2024
Added:
Aug 16, 2016
Wants:
  57
Gots:
  73
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
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Ratings by jrc1093:
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Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut

3.21/5  rDev -28.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.75
Canned on 10/11/18

Pours opaque, glossy honey gold with about a finger of pillowy, white foam that recedes pretty quickly in favor of thin layers of sticky lacing.

Aromas of raw honey meld with dank hops for an absolutely pungent bouquet forming notes of herbaceously sweet sugar cane and lighter notes of rubber; powerful stuff, and definitely an aroma I’m finding personally polarizing.

Taste brings plenty of herbal hops to start, building slowly in honeyed sweetness and saturating further tones of hops, pine, grapefruit zest, and mango to an effect similar to the aroma.

Mouthfeel has a medium body with well-balanced carbonation, and actually reveals a certain level of prickly hops to the finish; little to no bitterness, and surprisingly trending toward light on the palate.

Maybe the most polarizing NEIPA I’ve tried to date; I tend to like IPAs on the pungent side, but the honey really brings this to a new level, one that is equal parts confidently herbaceous and dramatically too dank.
Nov 07, 2018
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Rated by joberlander from Massachusetts

3.76/5  rDev -16.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Maybe a bad batch but the flavors were super muted and didn't pop like a normal trill beer.
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Cutting Tiles - Galaxy from Trillium Brewing Company
Beer rating: 100 out of 100 with 613 ratings