Permutation Series #50: Double IPA w/ Experimental Hops
Trillium Brewing Company
- From:
- Trillium Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 92
- Avg:
- 4.2 | pDev: 7.14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 7
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 29, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
92
Outstanding
92
Outstanding
Permutation is our experimental series of small batch offerings, showcasing the unique visions and innovative concepts developed by our brewing and cellar crew.
Moderately hazy golden amber in appearance, Permutation 50 offers a tropical aroma of diced pineapple, honeydew melon rind, tangerine, and mango. The palate bursts with notes of sweet clementine, pulpy grapefruit, kiwi, and lemon pith. Displays a full, creamy mouthfeel with an balancing bite of pine and black tea spice.
MALT: Pale Malt, Honey Malt
HOPS: Citra, Experimental Hops
Moderately hazy golden amber in appearance, Permutation 50 offers a tropical aroma of diced pineapple, honeydew melon rind, tangerine, and mango. The palate bursts with notes of sweet clementine, pulpy grapefruit, kiwi, and lemon pith. Displays a full, creamy mouthfeel with an balancing bite of pine and black tea spice.
MALT: Pale Malt, Honey Malt
HOPS: Citra, Experimental Hops
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Reviewed by digboy from New Hampshire
4.13/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a cloudy, deep orange gold with an off white 1 finger head.
Aroma has citrus notes mixed with something tropical. Not too distinct. I find so.ething mildly offensive in the smell.
Taste has pineapple notes jump out so mystery solved. There is a bit of earthiness to it too. Finish is clean with a slight seltzer remaining.
Feel is soft with a light bitterness.
This is a great tasting ipa with mostly citrus notes but some tropical creeping in. A great NEIPA offering but not the best from trillium.
Jul 21, 2018Aroma has citrus notes mixed with something tropical. Not too distinct. I find so.ething mildly offensive in the smell.
Taste has pineapple notes jump out so mystery solved. There is a bit of earthiness to it too. Finish is clean with a slight seltzer remaining.
Feel is soft with a light bitterness.
This is a great tasting ipa with mostly citrus notes but some tropical creeping in. A great NEIPA offering but not the best from trillium.
Rated by Burt from Rhode Island
4.18/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
The taste reminds me of a west coast dipa with that neipa twist. Solid brew.
Jul 21, 2018
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.25/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
The "what if" spirit is alive in every brewer, harking back to their homebrew days. The brewers at Trillium allow the little homebrewer in them to emerge with an experimental hop series, Permutation Series, to test the waters of "what if" when it comes to hops.
Hazy, nearly turbid rusty gold, Number Fifty, a thick and foamy froth walls off the nose with a starburst of tropical, citrus, melon and herbal aromatics. A moderate rich maltiness brings a taste of caramelized breadiness, honey and pastry crust to the initial taste in form of grilled poundcake.
Sweetness soon subsides and the ensuing dryness brings those hops to the middle palate, leading with a tropical medley of pineapple, papaya, mango and apricot. The racy acidity of citrus follows with a radiant orange taste that hangs on tangerine, mandarin orange and blood orange with peps of red grapefruit and lemon shining at times. Trending herbal with black tea, blackcurrant, freshly shaven spruce and a spicy, juicy tang of kiwi and verbena follow into a moderately bitter finish.
Medium bodied, the beer's malt creaminess has the beer feeling fuller early. But the trek to dryness and the ale's tendency to favor hop flavor and spice as the finish brisk, malty dry and lingering with herb, woods and tea.
Jul 19, 2018Hazy, nearly turbid rusty gold, Number Fifty, a thick and foamy froth walls off the nose with a starburst of tropical, citrus, melon and herbal aromatics. A moderate rich maltiness brings a taste of caramelized breadiness, honey and pastry crust to the initial taste in form of grilled poundcake.
Sweetness soon subsides and the ensuing dryness brings those hops to the middle palate, leading with a tropical medley of pineapple, papaya, mango and apricot. The racy acidity of citrus follows with a radiant orange taste that hangs on tangerine, mandarin orange and blood orange with peps of red grapefruit and lemon shining at times. Trending herbal with black tea, blackcurrant, freshly shaven spruce and a spicy, juicy tang of kiwi and verbena follow into a moderately bitter finish.
Medium bodied, the beer's malt creaminess has the beer feeling fuller early. But the trek to dryness and the ale's tendency to favor hop flavor and spice as the finish brisk, malty dry and lingering with herb, woods and tea.
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