I traded for a few bottles of artaic a month or so ago. Just curious, did anyone else have a lot of settled yeast on the bottom of their bottles? Also doesn't Trillium put dates on their bottles cause these didnt have dates but ones I got from previous trades had orange date stickers.
Have heard this about settled yeast, so yes I think it's pretty common. In terms of dates, they are stamped above the UPC code, no longer a sticker on the bottle. It's a bit tough to see, but it is there.
I didn't have to much yeast, but the honey did settle and clump together. Me and some buddies took one bottle and gently rotated it and re-distributed the honey and that tasted better the one we didn't mix.
Yup date looks good, and now that you mention it I bet it is honey, because it's clumps that settled, yeast doesn't clump like that. Good to know. Thanks for the info guys.
Most likely it is a mixture of both wheats, yeast, and hop particulates that were left in suspension when packaged. I usually let their beers sit in my fridge for a week or two if not more ... tend to get a lot of the particulate to settle out with the IPAs and other "dryhopped" versions. I just make sure not to decant that into my glass. I've done this with some of the Treehouse beers and they've cleared up a bit, not haze though. ;-) Bissell Brothers beers don't settle out much at all. Waiting for someone to release a bubble tea IPA.
It's a well known fact that the flavor of those tapioca pearls fades after 24 hours... Cue the Great Tapioca Pearl Debate of 2016.
I'm shocked people are weirded out by sediment after all these years of heavily hopped and billed beers. You really can't taste it or notice it in your mouth at all. I say just suck it up and drink it.
Ummm ... yeah, you can taste it and it is very much part of the mouthfeel. Unless you don't know what too look for when a brewer is adding flaked wheat, oats, dextrine, flour, or god knows what to the beer. Big difference from the slightly hazed hoppy beer to what is going on now. We used to read books back in the day as well. ;-)
While I agree depending on what is added to the beer you can (to an extent FEEL it) It's very minimal in impact and not something a good deal of us look at as a turn off or something that make you physically sick. I tend to disagree on the taste portion. I've let many a pile of it in a glass just to try it and it hardly had any affect on me or my perception if at all. A good examply would be the 4 pack of Heady I let sit in the fridge for two years we opened recently. That stuff at the bottom did not taste any different. If anything I would think that Backseat Berner and its luscious amounts of floaties would be more of a scare to people then a turbid hazy beer. That beer is fairly clear aside from those. Can you elaborate on the book comment?
Thread resurrect!! So, I just cracked an artaic from the most recent batch that I had been saving (why, I don't know). First glass had a few floaties. second & final glass was a snowglobe: https://goo.gl/photos/G35pouzzgnemzVJq7 Since I've never had a Trillium beer do this (have had plenty of hop sediment, though) I'm going to guess this is honey rather than yeast. But who knows? I don't have a microscope. By the way: beer still delicious.
Not that it needs to be filtered nor would I demand it but this is like a chef making a broth without a sieve, you'll always end up with different consistencies with each batch.
Semi-OT, but I opened a Heavy Mettle this weekend to discover a bunch around the mouth of the bottle. I was somewhat surprised as it had never been suspended upside down. Nevertheless, it was an amazing beer
