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Plane Over Car Over Train Over Boat
Trillium Brewing Company
- From:
- Trillium Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #129 - ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- 95
Ranked #1,278 - Avg:
- 4.34 | pDev: 7.37%
- Reviews:
- 23
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 02, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 14, 2019
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 6
Boston is known for its complex tangled transportation web. Unbeknownst to many, though, we also have a rarity that exists in only three locations in the world. At a short span on the Charles River is a place where a plane can fly over a train that rides over a car that drives over a boat. Inspired by this representation of the vibrancy of our city, we created the most amplified hoppy beer to hit our tanks. Plane over Train over Car over Boat reflects the seamless, stunning poetry of many synchronized parts moving together in a small space to create a greater whole. A beer that took a year of focused development and tweaking and fine-tuning to bring to life.
PoCoToB is our first ever Quadruple IPA. With a bumped up grain bill, we dosed this beer with massive additions of Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy at our highest hopping rate to date. Pouring a heavily hazy orange color, the nose instantly is greeted with bold aromas of of creamy mango purée, candied lemon, tropical papaya, and underripe pineapple. PoCoToB’s luscious, full mouthfeel accentuates dynamic flavors of juicy apricot, sticky cantaloupe, and pulpy orange smoothies with a touch of guava. PoCoToB has a present yet smooth bite of spruce tips with mouthwatering and clean finish. An extended cold-conditioning period mellows the hoppy bite that often highlights beers of this magnitude, while also further developing the depth of tropical and citrus-like qualities that the intense dry hopping imparted.
PoCoToB is our first ever Quadruple IPA. With a bumped up grain bill, we dosed this beer with massive additions of Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy at our highest hopping rate to date. Pouring a heavily hazy orange color, the nose instantly is greeted with bold aromas of of creamy mango purée, candied lemon, tropical papaya, and underripe pineapple. PoCoToB’s luscious, full mouthfeel accentuates dynamic flavors of juicy apricot, sticky cantaloupe, and pulpy orange smoothies with a touch of guava. PoCoToB has a present yet smooth bite of spruce tips with mouthwatering and clean finish. An extended cold-conditioning period mellows the hoppy bite that often highlights beers of this magnitude, while also further developing the depth of tropical and citrus-like qualities that the intense dry hopping imparted.
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Ratings by wvsabbath:
Rated by wvsabbath from West Virginia
4.25/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Jul 14, 2019
4.25/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Jul 14, 2019
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by jngls from Germany
4.41/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.41/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
6 weeks old. Can to wine glass.
Look: Pours a full and hazy orangish yellow with a large-pored white head that dissipates quickly without leaving any lacing. No floaters.
Smell: Apricot, mango and candied citrus fruits. Fruity sweetness. Slightly boozy.
Taste: Tropical mango and papaya paired with ripe citrus fruits, especially orange and grapefruit. Medium sweet and bitter.
Feel: Juicy with very little carbonation. Full and just a bit sticky.
Overall: Very good quad IPA that doesn‘t really feel like one. Not the biggest fan of the style but this might be the best one I‘ve had so far. Very nicely balanced, not to boozy nor too sweet and sticky.
Mar 22, 2022Look: Pours a full and hazy orangish yellow with a large-pored white head that dissipates quickly without leaving any lacing. No floaters.
Smell: Apricot, mango and candied citrus fruits. Fruity sweetness. Slightly boozy.
Taste: Tropical mango and papaya paired with ripe citrus fruits, especially orange and grapefruit. Medium sweet and bitter.
Feel: Juicy with very little carbonation. Full and just a bit sticky.
Overall: Very good quad IPA that doesn‘t really feel like one. Not the biggest fan of the style but this might be the best one I‘ve had so far. Very nicely balanced, not to boozy nor too sweet and sticky.
Reviewed by lucius10 from California
4.52/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.52/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
2022 Batch! Sweet tropical hoppy, orange juicy citrus, and hint of earthy-dank nose on this one! Taste follows with a malty-sweet, earthy hoppy, and orange citrus bitter swallow. This is murky-soft on the palate...and some mild hop burn lingers a bit as it warms. Additionally, some nutty-hoppy, citrus booziness starts to appear on the backend. Really good!
Feb 19, 2022Reviewed by Roguer from Connecticut
3.92/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Very nice head production; excellent retention and lacing. Body is unsurprisingly opaque, if not quite pulpy, and a fairly vibrant lemon yellow hue.
Nose is a little hard to pick apart, partly because of the massive malt bill, which adds big bready notes on the nose. Hop tones lean tropical, with mango and pineapple leading the way, along with some bright and pungent herbal notes. It's simply too muted and muddled to pick out many individual notes.
Flavor delivers what you might expect, with bigger, fruitier hop notes, along with a huge malt body. Sweet, doughy, bready; honey, agave nectar; mango, pineapple juice, canteloupe, lemon, papaya, mandarin orange, peach, white grape, berry, banana.
It's nearly impossible to maintain any reasonable level of lively crisp IPA bite once you reach this far into double digit ABV, and this beer is no exception. It's not quite syrupy, as many older imperial IPAs used to fail into, but it's still a jarring contrast: bright hop tones being delivered on a near stout-like body. Not a ton of alcohol sting, although the entire beer screams "big."
This beer may be just too much: too big, too far to really deliver on a clean flavor profile. That's not remotely to imply it doesn't taste good; it's real good! It's also impressive that the presentation is as smooth as it is given the ABV. The reality is that it's simply easier to dial in an imperial IPA a few percent lower - or at least, so it seems.
Mar 05, 2021Nose is a little hard to pick apart, partly because of the massive malt bill, which adds big bready notes on the nose. Hop tones lean tropical, with mango and pineapple leading the way, along with some bright and pungent herbal notes. It's simply too muted and muddled to pick out many individual notes.
Flavor delivers what you might expect, with bigger, fruitier hop notes, along with a huge malt body. Sweet, doughy, bready; honey, agave nectar; mango, pineapple juice, canteloupe, lemon, papaya, mandarin orange, peach, white grape, berry, banana.
It's nearly impossible to maintain any reasonable level of lively crisp IPA bite once you reach this far into double digit ABV, and this beer is no exception. It's not quite syrupy, as many older imperial IPAs used to fail into, but it's still a jarring contrast: bright hop tones being delivered on a near stout-like body. Not a ton of alcohol sting, although the entire beer screams "big."
This beer may be just too much: too big, too far to really deliver on a clean flavor profile. That's not remotely to imply it doesn't taste good; it's real good! It's also impressive that the presentation is as smooth as it is given the ABV. The reality is that it's simply easier to dial in an imperial IPA a few percent lower - or at least, so it seems.
Reviewed by RaulMondesi from California
4/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This one hides pretty well like that albino kid you grew up with during hide and go seek. Pretty slick like Steve McQueen driving his whip, and that Lindbergh guy in a plane. Boat? Who the hell drives a boat? I dunno.
Peace.
Mar 03, 2021Peace.
Reviewed by brewme from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Picked-up a four-pack of cans at Trillium Brewery in Canton for about twenty two dollars. Never heard of a quadruple IPA. Can reads 12%. I think that this is the highest ABV IPA that I have ever had. This tastes very good, not too boozy, but I could not even make it through 2.
Feb 13, 2021Reviewed by WanderingFool from Massachusetts
4.18/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
For a 13% beer it's smooth. Loaded with hops, grassy, dank, tropical. Full bodied, creamy, and bready malt. Bitterness is moderate to high. Lingering hop flavors when gone. Definitely a sipper.
Feb 13, 2021
Plane Over Car Over Train Over Boat from Trillium Brewing Company
Beer rating:
95 out of
100 with
95 ratings
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