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Max Headroom
Trillium Brewing Company
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- From:
- Trillium Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- New England IPA
- ABV:
- 9.1%
- Score:
- 100
- Avg:
- 4.6 | pDev: 5.43%
- Reviews:
- 16
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 20, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 01, 2019
- Wants:
- 13
- Gots:
- 2
This year to celebrate the annual return of Headroom we sought to make a special batch of beer that honored Headroom’s legacy yet challenged us to push the recipe forward. Our hoppiest beer ever, Max Headroom marks countless hours of formulation, planning, and execution. With a bumped up gravity to handle a massive hop charge of 11 pounds per barrel of Galaxy and Mosaic, Max Headroom is a beer we excited to finally share with you!
Pouring a heavy milky haze of pale yellow straw, Max Headroom is resplendent with ripe aromas of fresh pineapple and juiced citrus with a lively underpinning of clipped grass. With each sip, waves of tropical mango smoothies and guava crash over the palate highlighted by deep notes of orange candies, meyer lemon slices and freshly squeezed pink grapefruit. Extended cold conditioning keeps the bitterness from becoming overbearing, yet a gentle buzz of vibrant pine strikes a balance on the finish. Max Headroom is medium bodied with a rounded mouthfeel and creamy, smooth body. We hope you are able to share this beer with the special people in your lives, raising a toast in celebration of time well spent together.
MALT: American Two Row, White Wheat, Flaked Wheat
HOPS: Mosaic, Galaxy
Pouring a heavy milky haze of pale yellow straw, Max Headroom is resplendent with ripe aromas of fresh pineapple and juiced citrus with a lively underpinning of clipped grass. With each sip, waves of tropical mango smoothies and guava crash over the palate highlighted by deep notes of orange candies, meyer lemon slices and freshly squeezed pink grapefruit. Extended cold conditioning keeps the bitterness from becoming overbearing, yet a gentle buzz of vibrant pine strikes a balance on the finish. Max Headroom is medium bodied with a rounded mouthfeel and creamy, smooth body. We hope you are able to share this beer with the special people in your lives, raising a toast in celebration of time well spent together.
MALT: American Two Row, White Wheat, Flaked Wheat
HOPS: Mosaic, Galaxy
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Ratings by Kendo:
Reviewed by Kendo from New York
4.5/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Canned on 7-30-2020, consumed on 8-23-2020.
A: Poured from the can into a tulip glass. Body is juicy/hazy golden with a half-finger of white head that settles quickly.
S: Nice nose of tropical fruit - pineapple, mango, papaya, melon - grapefruit peel and dank, earthy grass.
T: Think orange-pineapple juice. Lots of tropical fruit - like the nose, I get pineapple, mango, papaya, melon, but also some white grape skins and apricot. Finishes with grapefruit bitterness/bite and some pine or grassiness. Given the 9.1% ABV, I'm really surprised to not be getting more alcohol. I note a bit of heat in the belly, and a touch on the back end of the palate, but that's about it.
M: Juicy, medium-to-full in heft. Carbonation is modest, provides some "bite."
O: Very good. I really liked the "regular" Headroom, and while this one doesn't quite live up to it, it's very good.
Aug 24, 2020A: Poured from the can into a tulip glass. Body is juicy/hazy golden with a half-finger of white head that settles quickly.
S: Nice nose of tropical fruit - pineapple, mango, papaya, melon - grapefruit peel and dank, earthy grass.
T: Think orange-pineapple juice. Lots of tropical fruit - like the nose, I get pineapple, mango, papaya, melon, but also some white grape skins and apricot. Finishes with grapefruit bitterness/bite and some pine or grassiness. Given the 9.1% ABV, I'm really surprised to not be getting more alcohol. I note a bit of heat in the belly, and a touch on the back end of the palate, but that's about it.
M: Juicy, medium-to-full in heft. Carbonation is modest, provides some "bite."
O: Very good. I really liked the "regular" Headroom, and while this one doesn't quite live up to it, it's very good.
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Max Headroom from Trillium Brewing Company
Beer rating:
100 out of
100 with
87 ratings
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