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.
Pour is a dark brown with a bone white head. Aroma is a super amount of banana and clove. Flavor is banana and clove with a not off putting sweetness. Just the right amount of sweetness if you will. Finish is even a little bitter. Excellent example of the style.
Pour is a clear mahogany with a large foamy tan head. Aroma is brown ale malt with a little bitter bakers chocolate. Flavor is caramel sweetness with brown bread with a finishing bitterness. Above par bunkel.
Pour is a hazy copper with a large white head. Aroma is a nice baked bread and honey malt. Flavor is a little light. Some caramel sweetness with a bitterness left on the tongue. Still a decent attempt but the aroma was far better than the flavor.
Pour is a clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is cracked malt with a herbal hop. Flavor is a silky but cracker dry malt with a big herbal hop. Finish is dry with those hops left on the tongue. Pretty good.
Pour is a cloudy yellow with a large white head. Aroma is cracked dry malt and a little lemon. Flavor is cracker malt with a nice green and herbal Euro hop. Finish is gone quickly. Pretty good kolsch.
Pour is a clear light blonde with a large white head. Aroma is fresh baked white bread with a little lemon. Flavor is more white bread malt with a crisp biting bitter hop. This was decent but a bit Americanized with the bitter hops.
Cheers to Saraveza, another brewery I have never heard of. Clear gold body with white head. Citrusy and grain aroma. Malt forward taste with a crisp long finish
Pours deep mahogany-tinged cola into a weizen. Mocha head with excellent retention recedes leaving scant spiders to crater surface. Sweet smoked maple house, banana and caramel aromas. Thin to medium bodied with clove, maple and nutmeg front to back. Lasting bananas flambe and earthy clove finish.
12oz can watching Bs. Dark brown pour almost black and beige head with legs. Nose is roast and spicy hops. Tastes peppery, of char, chocolate, dark bread. Very smooth and easy drinking.