Cellar Series: Fresh Hop Lager
von Trapp Brewing in Stowe, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Series|
Score
6.97
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The third offering in our Cellar Series is a celebratory homage to one of our favorite West Coast fresh hop India Pale Ales, produced in collaboration with Barrique Brewing of Nashville, Tennessee. Brewed with Vienna malt and fermented with our house Bavarian lager yeast, this beer uses whole-cone Cascade and Columbus hops in the whirlpool and is dry-hopped with fresh Cascade, Columbus, and Chinook hops from the Pacific Northwest. Deep amber in color with bright and juicy notes of pine, resin, grapefruit, and caramel with a soft, chewy mouthfeel and lightly dry and bitter finish.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: dark amber color with a sly transparency around the edges of the glass and a two and a quarter fingers of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: piney, smoky, light caramel whiffs and breadiness
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet piney coated bready quality; finishes semi-dry with a touch of bitterness and a note of pine
Texture: medium bodied, sessionable, good smoothness in a rolling semi-dry sort of way
Overall: I liked this lager that seemed a bit out of the norm from Von Trapp.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: dark amber color with a sly transparency around the edges of the glass and a two and a quarter fingers of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: piney, smoky, light caramel whiffs and breadiness
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet piney coated bready quality; finishes semi-dry with a touch of bitterness and a note of pine
Texture: medium bodied, sessionable, good smoothness in a rolling semi-dry sort of way
Overall: I liked this lager that seemed a bit out of the norm from Von Trapp.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Mar 2026
at 12:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can, bb 02/06/25, drunk 12/20/25.
Clear, muted bronze-copper. Small-to-medium-sized, creamy, off-white head.
Very, very hoppy as I'm pouring it. Concerningly so, despite it being an IPL. Just seems like it's going to be very aggressively hopped even for the style. A bit raw and maybe it needed more time, though I'm guessing it's at least a month old if not more. Deep, bready malts do help balance somewhat.
Smoke? Pepper? Something like that up front, with big bread notes, sweet, rich malts and, actually, not all that aggressively hopped. More flavor with a surprisingly low bitterness. The maltiness is soft, supple, comforting, but I can't get a great sense of the hops. Dried herbs, vegetal...something to that effect. Clean and fairly balanced, just not really in love with the flavor profile.
Clear, muted bronze-copper. Small-to-medium-sized, creamy, off-white head.
Very, very hoppy as I'm pouring it. Concerningly so, despite it being an IPL. Just seems like it's going to be very aggressively hopped even for the style. A bit raw and maybe it needed more time, though I'm guessing it's at least a month old if not more. Deep, bready malts do help balance somewhat.
Smoke? Pepper? Something like that up front, with big bread notes, sweet, rich malts and, actually, not all that aggressively hopped. More flavor with a surprisingly low bitterness. The maltiness is soft, supple, comforting, but I can't get a great sense of the hops. Dried herbs, vegetal...something to that effect. Clean and fairly balanced, just not really in love with the flavor profile.
Tried
from Can
from
Vermont Beer Collective
on 20 Dec 2024
at 23:36