von Trapp Brewing
Brewpub
in
Stowe,
Vermont,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: von Trapp Brewery & Bierhall
Established in 2010
Contact
Description
A Little of Austria, a lot of Vermont
Welcome to von Trapp Brewing
Enjoy flavorful, crisp lagers at von Trapp Brewing, located at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.
Over the course of many visits to Austria, Johannes von Trapp, the youngest son of Maria and the Baron, gained an appreciation for the crisp, clean Austrian lager beers. When the craft beer movement in the United States gained momentum in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable lack of focus on lagers. It’s not surprising, considering that lagers are more challenging to brew, take longer to mature, and are therefore more expensive to create. For two decades Johannes dreamed of building an Austrian-style brewery at the Trapp Family Lodge, and in 2010 that dream came to fruition.
A humble brewery with the capacity of 2,000 barrels per year attracted attention under the name Trapp Lager, and the brewery received requests from all over the United States. The von Trapp family, who had always been reticent to commercialize their family heritage, realized that they had a product deserving of the family name. The new facility, completed in 2015 under the name von Trapp Brewing, allowed the family to expand beyond their home territory and spread the gospel of craft lagers.
Welcome to von Trapp Brewing
Enjoy flavorful, crisp lagers at von Trapp Brewing, located at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.
Over the course of many visits to Austria, Johannes von Trapp, the youngest son of Maria and the Baron, gained an appreciation for the crisp, clean Austrian lager beers. When the craft beer movement in the United States gained momentum in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable lack of focus on lagers. It’s not surprising, considering that lagers are more challenging to brew, take longer to mature, and are therefore more expensive to create. For two decades Johannes dreamed of building an Austrian-style brewery at the Trapp Family Lodge, and in 2010 that dream came to fruition.
A humble brewery with the capacity of 2,000 barrels per year attracted attention under the name Trapp Lager, and the brewery received requests from all over the United States. The von Trapp family, who had always been reticent to commercialize their family heritage, realized that they had a product deserving of the family name. The new facility, completed in 2015 under the name von Trapp Brewing, allowed the family to expand beyond their home territory and spread the gospel of craft lagers.
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Pint can. Pours a hazy dark 24k gold color with a fair sized white head that has good retention and crazy lacing. The aroma is medium in strength with sweet biscuits, cookies, and a bit of grapefruit citrus. The taste, like the aroma, is sweet malts, grapefruit, cookies and a bit of bitter grapefruit. The palate is light and crisp with lively carbonation. Finishes long and semi-sweet. Overall: Decent brew I very much enjoyed it--but I never would have guessed this was Kellerbier. Paired well with some north sea cheese (Nordseekase).
Tried
on 16 Jan 2025
at 16:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 9
Overall 6.5
Quite herbal and woody, with a healthy dose of floral bitterness underneath. Notes of yeast, sweet grain, and a touch of apple. Finishes with a clingy bitter streak. Nose is on the metallic side. Good, not great.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2025
at 01:05
5.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Honey, biscuit malt, and straw aroma. Golden yellow with nice head. Lightly sweet lemon, biscuit malt, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Light body.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2025
at 02:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can from City Brew Tours Hanukkah box, night 6, 12/30/24. Pours a clear rusty orange color with a beige head and fairly strong lace. Bready and caramel malts. A little molasses, brown sugar notes, and some light spice as well. Mostly grainy malt flavor. Clean and very drinkable. Tingly feel. Somewhat dry finish. Pretty good. 7/4/7/4/15
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jan 2025
at 22:23
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Biscuit malt and green grass/fresh hay aroma. Golden yellow with moderate white head. Moderately sweet lemon, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter grass/fresh hay flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2024
at 01:37
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
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Lukr, Three Penny, 12/19/24. Dark, probably clear. Big, grey-tan head, creamy. Rich cocoa, mineral, light hop spice and caramel. Very malty, clean, not over toasted/roasted. Soft, rich, butter toffee, milk chocolate, deep malts, moderate hop bitterness and high attenuation. Wonderful amount of base malt and hop to balance a delectably rich maltiness. Super low roast, wow. Just pure chocolate and caramel...
Tried
on 19 Dec 2024
at 21:41
9/10
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:05
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:02
8/10
Wait is this true? The real von trapp family? How am I just finding out about this?
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:02