Trillium Brewing Company (October 2016)

Stupid question: does Trillium add a new offering in cans every week or it varies?

 

Yes they've been releasing DIPAs, pales and/or variants every week. I think they said they do three cannings a week

 

Four canning runs this week, per Twitter

 

thanks much

 

Gotta disagree with you here... their sours are fantastic, their stouts are always really good, their hoppy offerings have a huge amount of variety, and their saisons, while not my bag, are on point.

 

But his point was, none of those are available in packaged form right now.

 

What size pours does the Canton taproom do? Flights?

 

5oz & 10oz
20oz max combined during the week. Limits usually dropped for the weekend

 

Either 5 oz. or 10 oz. pours, no flights. Typically limited to a total of 20 oz. during the week.

 

Yes and even given them credit for stuff they've brewed in the past it's still not that wide of a range. Compare what they've produced to what Tree House or Night Shift has done. Hell, Jack's Abby has produced more variety and they don't even make ales. Also, more subjective, but I still say that most of their hoppy beers are basically the same other than ABV and the specific combination of galaxy/citra/mosaic/ed dorado/nelson (plus columbus!) used.

To be clear, I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with a brewery having a narrow focus. It's clearly working well for Trillium and I've probably bought more beer from them over the last couple years than any other single brewery, but it's a narrow focus nonetheless.

 

Awesome. Thanks

 

Last dumb question. I know they don't serve food but I thought I read they have food trucks there. Is that typical on saturdays?

 

I would put trillium and tree house side by side as far as variety goes. They both brew mostly IPAs and the like and throw another style out on occasion. For every brown or esb tree house drops trillium has a saison, wheat ale, wild or barleywine. Again nothing wrong with a narrower focus. I prefer TH and Trill doing what they do best rather than having the paltry success rate places like NS do.

 

TH and Trillium are levels ahead of NS no question, but you'd call their success rate paltry?

Imo they deserve a bit more cred than that. They have some top examples of several different styles

 

I mean, how is "paltry" even being qualified here? I feel like people on BA often confuse a breweries success with how much it is discussed on this one particular website. Granted a lot of people get their beer information on here, the average beer consumer probably(?) still doesn't. NS distributes a bit more so they don't create the buzz, but that's the point, they also distribute more. They appear to have a successful taproom and are able to sell the beer they produce, which might even be of higher volume than especially TH. So they certainly appear successful, just with a different approach to it.

Also, Trillium is easily one of my three favorite breweries. They just have this house flavor that I cannot get tired of. That said, if there were a spectrum of diversity in a breweries style offerings, they would be on the less diverse side. That taplist has pale ales, saisons, and a stout. I'm not saying lack of specialization is a good thing. But take for example a brewery like Epic Brewing company. At any given time they're selling stout, porter, pale, amber, wild ale, stout, barley wine, american wheat, wit beer, mild ale, tripel, barrel aged tripel, quad, rye, saison, pilsner, doppel bock, brown ale, and a gluten free beer. That might be the other end of the spectrum, just for context. Sorry for long, slightly off topic post.

 

10% of their beer has been good or great!? That seems inaccurate

 

more for us then!

 

Sorry to post a useless comment in the middle or the "conversation" of good/great/meh. First time to Trillium yesterday was great. Stopped in at Canton just before 12 and loved the place. Wish I had more time to spend to have a couple of pours of things I didn't buy but was thrilled to be able to walk out of there with 4 Four-packs of different beers. Really hoping Treehouse looks like this in a years time as it's much closer to me. Had a DDH Sleeper St last night that was fantastic. Can't wait to try the rest now. Cheers!

 

To add to the oz limit discussion....

The taproom is now all you can drink 6 days a week. They lifted the limit 2 weeks ago.

 

I wish I knew this! I went last week anew basically cut mtwelfth off at 4 pours. Haha