Ale
Long Trail Brewing Company in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Altbier Regular|
Score
6.24
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Long Trail Ale® is a full-bodied amber ale brewed with our top fermenting house yeast that yields a clean, complex flavor.
Our flagship brew has weaved its way into the Vermont landscape and become as much a Green Mountain tradition as the 273 miles of the Long Trail itself. Plenty has changed since the first batch rolled off the line, but one thing remains constant, Long Trail Ale’s® presence at ski hills, cookouts and get-togethers all over the East Coast.
Our flagship brew has weaved its way into the Vermont landscape and become as much a Green Mountain tradition as the 273 miles of the Long Trail itself. Plenty has changed since the first batch rolled off the line, but one thing remains constant, Long Trail Ale’s® presence at ski hills, cookouts and get-togethers all over the East Coast.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught: Poured a copper color with little head. Aroma is bubblegum and malts. Taste is light hoppy.
Tried
on 01 May 2008
at 17:42
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle brought back by a traveling neighbor. This beer pours a clear amber-orange color with a thin and foamy light beige head. Thin sheets of lacing. Light roasted malt and fruit aroma. Light, smooth body with sweet caramel and malt flavors and just a touch of bitterness. The finish is sweet and the malty flavor does not linger long. Overall I would not have pegged this as an Alt at first blush, and knowing that is the target style causes it to lose a little favor with me. Still it is an easy to drink beer if nothing else.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2008
at 15:54
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle. Light cherry and yeasty malt aroma. Medium amber color with small head. Slightly sweet yeasty malt flavor with a light hops finish. Nothing bad - would have rated higher as an amber ale but as an altbier it is very mediocre.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2007
at 20:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
12 oz bot....very pretty copper color..a thin tracing of foam...a pleasing aroma with nice fruit charasteristics and fruit to follow on the palate mixed with some clean malt flavor....such a crisp texture to the body..damn i love this beer...easy to drink but with taste....good out of the glass but best served straight out of the bottle and into a happy awaiting mouth...this could easily become my new "buy by the case beer"..whoo hoo made this beer go from 52 to a 53!!!
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2006
at 22:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
This is a very standard ale that is also very, very drinkable. It isn’t a really special or interesting beer, but it is certainly well crafted. The hops flavour is not as strong as the hops flavour of most other American ales of this calibre, but that doesn’t go against this beer, as it still has a nice smooth taste. Would definately try this again.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Oct 2006
at 13:44
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured a copper orange from the bottle with very little white head. No distinct aroma, no hops and little malt smell. Sweet and smooth flavor, malty taste smooth, slightly watery finish. Not bad but not remarkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2006
at 19:26
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle: Poured a golden color beer with a small head and very little retention. Aroma of sweet malt is quite overpowering with no hops discernable. Taste is very sweet with some light malt presence. Hops are very hard to discern. Overall, this is a refreshing but also quite boring beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2006
at 14:39
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
on tap-pours a white head, color is clear gold. Aroma is grain. Taste is grain, light carbonation, water.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Oct 2005
at 07:43
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
2004 bottle at Julio’s Spring Beer Fest, 4/02/05. Pours a clear, amber mixed with caramel brown, small white head, with some retention. Smells of light toffee, a touch of sour yeast and some darker, bittersweet fruits. Flavor is quite full up front, with a strong yeast presence coupled with brown sugar, and dry toffee. Dries out considerably towards the end, with some light astringency and a touch of fruitiness. A bit of dirty, earthiness lingers on. Medium body, moderate, large-bubbled carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2005
at 10:25
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
A nice shade of amber on the pour with a very dense slightly off-white head. A scent of some hops with a good amount of malt makes for a great smelling beer. The taste is a bit weak, with no complexity at all. Straight-forward taste with some decent characteristics, but nothing special. This one was better than the Blackberry Wheat and on the same level as the 'Hit the Trail Ale'. Still not a brewery you would want to search out. And if you have the option of breweries in the upper-northwest, do not go with them, find better breweries such as Allagash and Smuttynose.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2003
at 22:07