Trillium Brewing Company (August 2015)

went today at 11:55am, there had to have been 30 people waiting in line. I left. came back at about 3:30pm and there was zero wait. going at open on Saturday has to be the worst time.

looking forward to my super fresh Congress St. and DDH Fort Point

 

Put a growler of Fort Point in my cooler and headed to the beach. When I went to grab the cooler, I could smell the hops and knew exactly what was awaiting me: an innocent victim, lying in a pool of its own hoppy goodness.

Goodnight, sweet prince.

 

I got there around 3:40 or so today and was the only one there in the bottle line. Got my bottles, paid and left in under 5 minutes. That's the way it should be done. Awesome work guys.

 

Also, drinking a Galaxy dry hopped FPPA in my Boston hotel room courtesy of @MyThoughtsExactly on the awesome IP trade at Trillium today. This stuff is money.

 

Have to think we'll be seeing at least one, if not more, of the barrel-aged beers this month. Bug Valley has been on the up next list for quite a while, but it seems to actually be moving up recently. Will be interesting to see the details of the release.

 

So they do bottles and not only growlers correct? I have a brother in law that lives in Cambridge that I want to ask about grabbing some for me. Obviously we can't get it here in Arizona.

 

"Oh the Humanity!!!!!"

 

Not necessary. Was chatting with the staff the other day about this beer and they said they are taking samples of it every once and a while to see how it is progressing. I asked if it would be out in the summer and they weren't sure.

I'd love to get it in August but trust in them to release it when they know it is ready.

 

Thanks for the info!

 

Saturday around 1PM, I circled the block and found metered parking on seaport blvd. After three terrible attempts at parallel parking, I was all set. I Rummaged through my stuff and found about a dollar in change and loaded up the meter with a nickel to see the time increase from 0:00 to... 0:00. Oh yeah, it's quarters only. I had precisely one quarter on hand, so I grabbed my backpack from the trunk, threw it on, and got ready to sprint the two blocks immediately after dropping the quarter in the slot. 12 minutes on the clock.

4 minutes later, I was in the bottle line of 0 people for 6CS/6DDHFPPA, getting gently criticized for my AMAZING Alex Rodriguez three60 t-shirt and teased that I must spin three times and pledge allegiance to the Red Sox before I could receive my beer. Loaded 4 bottles in my bag and hustled on out with the rest of them in the box. 4 minutes left on the clock.

Made it back to the car with one minute left on the meter. As I was throwing bottles into my cooler next to some fresh cans of Julius, Spiderman drove by in a small car with the full mask on and everything. Gotta love con weekends. Good trip as always!

 

Has distro'd slowed down or is it just me. I feel like 2-3 months ago I saw more tweets from shops like CBC and Redstone, even street car getting shipments. So far this summer it seems like the majority of stuff is brewey only. Is this in anticipation of the move? Seems like before the summer I would at least run into oncd or twice at a CBC or Redstone.

 

my guess would be it is because people are finally waking up...

 

I was in there today and they mentioned they sell out of every given beer in about a week, nothing left to send to distro.

 

The guys at Redstone said they try to order stuff every week but the demand is so much higher at the brewery so there isn't as much/any to spare for the bottle shops. Although a little further, it's always worth the trip to the brewery!

 

Figured the demand at the Brewery was driving things. It's just I find myself driving by a CBC or Redstone more often than driving into town. I live in SE Mass and have family on the North Shore so 95 and 495 corridor are my shopping spots. Cant wait for the Canton move!

 

Collaboration with Other Half added to the "up next" list this morning. "Green Street, Obvious Pale Ale. Other Half collaboration IPA with Valley Malt Danko rye. Double dry Hopped with Simcoe, El Dorado, Azacca."

 

Sounds awesome.

On another note, On Trillium's Twitter today they're selling a series of barrels, does anyone think this means bug valley could be coming out soon? (Hoping those were the barrels bug valley was in)

(I'm admittedly totally grasping at straws here, just really hoping it's soon!!)

 

Bug Valley was actually packaged in March. Still not quite there. Going to keep trying it every 6 weeks or so. These barrels are from Wild Sinister kid (aging on sour Cherries now) and Cuvee de Tetreault (aging on back currant and cabernet Sauvignon grapes). Got a pretty good sized waitlist for these 9 barrels, keep an eye out for more in the future. Prob going to do it in a way that generates fewer than the 100+ emails that just crushed my inbox though. ouch.