Raspberry Soak
Trillium Brewing Company
- From:
- Trillium Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 97
- Avg:
- 4.4 | pDev: 5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 21
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 15, 2021
- Added:
- May 16, 2016
- Wants:
- 19
- Gots:
- 20
SCORE
97
World-Class
97
World-Class
Soak: our line of sour wheat ales, aged in oak, featuring a variety of single fruit additions. We place a base brew crafted with 60% wheat grist in 600L oak puncheons for 3 months with fermentation duties shared gracefully between lactobacillus and our Native New England mixed culture. Loosely inspired by the cold-maceration process used in winemaking, we blend fruit directly into the barrels to “soak” for enhanced extraction of unique colors, aromatics, and flavors. Delightfully acidic, but not funky, our Soak series is an approachable sequence of wild offerings that we are proud to share. Raspberries bring an assertively tart, yet unsweetened flavor profile, striking crimson hue, and re-enforced tannic structure. Raspberry Soak is dry with undertones of oak and wheat.
MALT: Pilsner, White Wheat, Flaked Wheat
HOPS: US Goldings
MALT: Pilsner, White Wheat, Flaked Wheat
HOPS: US Goldings
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Rated by peterpunk15 from Massachusetts
4.77/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.77/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Super tart, very refreshing, nice for a summer day outside
Feb 07, 2018
Reviewed by Davepoolesque from Massachusetts
4.02/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Sour warheads up front, oak, lacto, lemon and raspberries. Bit of earthy funkiness the finish. Semi dry, tart and bright. Not bad, but not very complex either.
Dec 15, 2017
Reviewed by Alieniloquium from Florida
3.58/5 rDev -18.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.58/5 rDev -18.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
750 mL bottle. Pours a deep red body. Smells of raspberry, lemon and lactic acidity, with a strong oak aroma. Tastes of strong raspberry and an equally strong sour component. Sourness is green apples with a tannic red wine flavor. Oak. Dry with a wheat aftertaste. Sourness is almost too much. Medium body. Enjoyable, but after a while the sourness becomes taxing.
Nov 30, 2017
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
3.88/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 4
Unintentionally leaving the dregs behind in the bottle, the body is faintly hazy and bright pastel red with a barely pink-tinged white uniform finger of foam settling to a thin film and creamy collar.
Smell is seedy raspberry, toasted sesame and lemon, indicating plenty of malic acid, and even a sting of acetic acid.
Taste starts quite nicely sour of raspberry and seedy bushberries, with toasty sesame seeds and lemon and even a hint of Gushers, but acetic vinegar harshness pushes in towards swallow, with a little smoky oak.
Quite sour indeed, this has a smooth, soft start with a round fizz that is quickly cut by a bitingly sour, tingly, tongue stinging swallow and semi-dry finish.
Nov 16, 2017Smell is seedy raspberry, toasted sesame and lemon, indicating plenty of malic acid, and even a sting of acetic acid.
Taste starts quite nicely sour of raspberry and seedy bushberries, with toasty sesame seeds and lemon and even a hint of Gushers, but acetic vinegar harshness pushes in towards swallow, with a little smoky oak.
Quite sour indeed, this has a smooth, soft start with a round fizz that is quickly cut by a bitingly sour, tingly, tongue stinging swallow and semi-dry finish.
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