We’ve got some Headroom with 2 new guests! Well, 1 is only sort of new. We locked ourselves in a bedroom and popped open a growler of Trillium’s yearly release of Headroom!
Style: DIPA
Container: 64oz Growler
Glassware: Trillium snifters
Notes: Simply put, Headroom is the hoppiest beer we’ve ever brewed with more than 7 lbs. per barrel featuring heavy doses of Galaxy & Mosaic. (8%)
Rating: 3.75/5
Hoof Hearted keeps on impressing. Check out Mike’s first full solo review!!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Double IPA with Pink Guava, Lactose, and Vanilla added (9%)
Rating: 4.5/5
We captured the illustrious Big Bird. This is the latest beer to come out of Trillium’s hype machine. It’s made with hops they won’t even tell us about it! I wasn’t aware some hops required an NDA…
It seems this was recorded with the camera mic vs the mixer mic. It still sounds good though. Hope you enjoy it.
Style: Double IPA
Container: 32oz growler
Glassware: Trillium The Streets Glass
Notes: Big Bird is featuring a new signature hop. This new hop gives Big Bird an intense nose that zaps the senses with aromas of lime, overripe papaya, and pithy citrus. Flavors of pineapple and tangy grapefruit are balanced by a light body and dank, resinous finish (8.5%)
Rating: 4/5 (adjusted after review)
Another variant of Dialed In makes its way to the table! Is it as good as the Sauvignon blanc we reviewed previously? Tune in to find out!
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: 16oz Snifters
Notes: This iteration of Dialed In is a fresh, juicy Double IPA intensively dry hopped with Galaxy and Citra. Pouring a vibrant, hazy gold; aromas of white wine, tropical fruit, and citrus swirl around the nose. Upfront flavors of grassy hop, orange juice, and pineapple coincide with vinous notes from the mid-fermentation addition of Chardonnay and Gewurztraminer juice. Soft and creamy with moderate bitterness; Medium-Light bodied with a crisp, dry finish. (8.5%)
Rating: 4/5
It’s crowler time! We’re joined by Mike’s brother, Josh as we crush 32 ounces of delicious Grimm juice!
Style: DIPA
Container: 32oz Crowler
Glassware: 16oz Snifters
Notes: The beer has a soft mouthfeel, gorgeous yeast-free haze, some hop floaties, and some of the loveliest lacing and foam you’ve seen on a beer in your life. Cloudbusting #4 is brewed with Wai-iti, Waimea, and Motueka. (8%)
Rating: 4.5/5
When a Double IPA called OH-J is handed to us, you know we have to review with a little extra criticism. It’s a ballsy move to call something Oh-J given the New England juice bomb craze we’re currently. So does it stack up? Watch and find out!
Cheers to Corey for hooking us up!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 8oz Flutes
Notes: A carefully selected arrangement of late-addition hops produce a pure citrus punch. 0% fruit. Fresh, never frozen. Not from concentrate. (8.1%)
Rating: 4.5/5
This is pineapple juice in can. It’s a collaboration between Ohio’s Hoof Hearted and Virginia’s The Answer!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Kokomo Drift, double dry-hopped DIPA, just for us and our friends. Come on over. My mom said it’s cool. (8.5%)
Rating: 4.5/5
Treehouse makes it back to the table! This time it’s their DIPA, HAZE!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Treehouse Teku’s
Notes:We constructed this beer around hops we currently have plenty of access to, allowing us to re-brew it on a (relatively) consistent basis. We smell a ton of orange on the nose, with complimentary notes of peach and passionfruit. The flavor is similar with a blast of citrus fruit & orange quickly followed by spicy grapefruit, and earthy dankness. A lingering but pleasant hop oil finish awaits (8.2%)
Rating: 4.75/5
We have a collaboration brew between Trophy Brewing in Raleigh, NC and Night Shift in Everett, MA!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flutes
Notes:Come check out this year’s collaboration between Trophy and Night Shift Brewing! Together we’ve created Inside Joke, a tasty Double IPA featuring Galaxy, Citra, and Simcoe hops. Whirlpool hop additions as well as heavy dry hopping give this beer a ton of great hop flavor and aroma, while a bit of turbinado sugar lends the beer a beautiful golden color. (8.6%)
Rating: 3.75/5
“This is everything I want in an IPA at this point in my life” – Mike 12/23/2015
It took about a year but we finally got our hands on some Dialed In. It’s really our fault as 1 brewery is about 30 minutes and the other is 40 minutes. We could have easily went many times.
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Stemmed Snifters
Notes: Dialed In is a dank, juicy Double IPA intensively dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin and Galaxy. Soft and creamy with moderate bitterness; Medium-Light bodied with a crisp, dry finish. (8.5%)
Rating: 5/5
