von Trapp Brewing

Brewpub in Stowe, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: von Trapp Brewery & Bierhall

Established in 2010

Contact
1333 Luce Hill Rd, Stowe, VT, 05672, United States
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.

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5/10
Bit malty and dry.
Tried on 10 Oct 2017 at 16:04

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
First beer after dry week Von trapp makes all the styles I’m after these days. Nice reddish brown pour puffy beige head. Nose is fruity and bready. Tastes of caramel, dried fruit, earthy, molasses, wheat bread. Medium bodied and easy drinking. Good stufg
Tried on 19 Jul 2017 at 11:08

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy deep brown with a small tan head. Aroma is toasted malty, slight breadish and caramelish. Roasted, overripe fruity and slight caramlelish. Toasted and slight breadish malty finish.
Tried from Draft on 14 Jul 2017 at 12:44

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from skippys 40th birthday. Pours golden with a large white head. Light floral grasses aroma. Flavornis crisp bitter grasses, light citrusy notes. This isn’t great but it’s not bad.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2017 at 00:21

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty. Bitter, slight caramelish to breadish. Dry and roasted malty finish.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2017 at 18:43

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow. Small white head. Aroma is grassy and slight straw. Toasted malty. Grassy. Slight fruity. Bitter, straw and slight grassy finish.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2017 at 18:41

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden hazzlenut brown. Small off white head. Aroma is roasted malty, breadish. Bitter. Toasted. Dry and breadish malty finish.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2017 at 18:39

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
16 oz can from Half Time. Clear golden, foamy white head. Fairly bright aroma, grass, herbal hops, rice, lemon, and a bit of spice. Dry, grassy flavor. Good, but not outstanding mouthfeel. A pretty tasty pils, but not a top of style palate, we rich is really what I’m looking for from a great pils.
Tried from Can on 21 Jun 2017 at 18:53

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at home in Hackney - sourced from VT. Pours crystal clear yellow, lightly effervescent, with a creamy, white head. Crisp pale biscuits in the nose, light cereal, hay, white bread. Light sweet flavour, more fresh biscuits, straw, low bitterness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Well balanced finish, with fine husky and grassy bitterness, more hay, biscuits, pizza crust. Quite excellent overall.
Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2017 at 17:37

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Poured into a lager glass, the appearance was a ruddy burnt amber fairly close to brown color with a slight transparency about it. Two finger white foamy head sustained for a good little bit and gently subsided leaving some light semi-ring-like foamy lace.
The aroma had sweet to oven roasted tones of caramel, toffee, earth, grassiness, butterscotch, lager yeasty smooth sweetness, toast, some nuts and some light cereal grains.
The flavor blended the malty tones to the grassy and earthy tones in a dried sweet manner. Lingering bready/malty qualities follow through in the aftertaste to ride on into the finish.
The feel was almost medium bodied, seemed like it sat just a tad underneath. Lightly carbonated, this one felt pretty close to the projected ABV.
Overall, really nice bock that is nice to drink this time of year, especially when we’re having this cold Spring that we seem to be having.
Tried on 07 May 2017 at 23:09