Trillium (2021)

I’m at Fenway currently and people are walking up ordering cans to go at the bar.

 

I walked over from my office on Tuesday and walked right into fort point to buy cans.

Was 445 days since I last set foot in an office. Thank god it won’t be often. But the 3 minute walk to Trillium is nice when there.

 

I was talking about Canton, but sure enough I went up to pick up a barrel planter today and there was someone standing at a pickup table perusing a menu to order. Seems a little strange to mix the pedestrian and vehicle traffic, so I think it would behoove them to just open up the indoor ordering area again at some point soon.

 

Did anyone check out new Canton for curbside?

 

How DARE you! Lol I saw the pic and got so excited at the thought of Sweatshirt emerging from the depths…

 

Soft opening at the new Canton tonight?

 

Looks like it. And officially open today. Place looks huge. Really nicely done. Excited to try the pizza with a nice mug of Central Artery.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQyl-tMjTJz/

 

I can imagine that campus is partially why the price of their pilsner increased by 25%. Yeesh when did it jump to $15 a 4 pack? Their lagers were one of the last remaining things driving me to Canton.

 

Think the lagers actually increased 50%, they used to be $10. In fairness many other craft brewers are pricing their lagers at or above that price point, but I don’t think Trillium’s lagers are anywhere near as good as a place like Schilling or Oxbow that I can buy on a shelf, for me at least.

 

I feel ya. But it does cost a lot to build the locations they have. As long as they deliver on the upscale experience I can’t complain. They’ve never been the good value brewery.

It just means they occupy a different spot in my drinking habits. The rare treat as opposed to a frequent drinker

 

New space is unbelievable. It is absolutely enormous and outside wasn't even open tonight with the rain. Minor nitpick in that the draft list was way better at the dinner tables than on the bar side but I imagine that'll be worked out in time. Pizza was really good as well, overall have few negative things to say about the food at either location outside of them being on the pricy side.

As for the beer (not that it's suddenly different), low abv trillium stuff is amazing, and the sour stuff is quite good as well though very sour. Extra hopped beers from them are just not for me at all, but I get that people like them.

Definitely recommend new canton as a stop for those interested.

 

Scrolling through people’s pictures on untapped the place looks amazing but the beer does not look appetizing. I stopped seeking their beer because it became over hopped and under carbed for me. It appears this hasn’t changed. Will definitely still check it out but my hopes for the beer aren’t high - maybe the $20 12 inch pepperoni pizza will steal the show .

 

A little late but I checked out curbside on Wednesday. It was definitely weird as you are just against a building façade with no view from the car that I was at an actual brewery. Just a guy calling in the handful of order numbers, somebody else showing up with a hand truck and 3 of us getting our orders fulfilled at once. I'm sure I'll be going in the building to order moving forward unless constrained by time.

 

Good to see that they’re still up to their old ways of not limiting their super hyped releases. Did Swishium really need to be a case pp?

 

Trillium Fenway made the critical mistake of draft pours and pickup being the same fucking line.

I got very used to 0 wait to pickup beer…this is going to take 20-30 minutes. Fuck.

 

According to

Just in case anyone was clamoring for Swish with less carb.

 

they increased the price on a lot of their beers. Fort Point and small bird series went up $2 per 4 pack. The prices on their lagers are insane and the seltzers are very good but wow are they pricey.

 

I guess the new move is to brew your own version of another brewery’s hyped beer in order to create interest. What’s next? Trillius, inspired by Julius?

 

New facility is really impressive. Excited to spend some more time there when the hype dies down a bit.

Also as others have said, it's expensive. For comparison:

Three four packs to go + two pours at Widowmaker = same price as a pizza, Mac and cheese, and four pours at Trillium.

 

One shared beer recipe, everybody knows that will never ever ever ever ever never ever happen.