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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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yespr (55614) reviewed
Bohemian-Style Pilsner from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
From tap. Pours hazy yellow, small white head. Aroma is mild grassy, light malty. Bitter, grassy, straw, slight herbal. Grassy and dry far finish.
Tried from Draft on 16 Apr 2017 at 22:31
Clarkvv (17430) reviewed
Dunkel Lager from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Draught at Salty Pig, 3/4/17.
Clear, milk chocolate with lighter amber tints and a small, beige head of low to moderate retention.
Grainy, caramel-laden malts also imbue light chocolate and slight red fruits in the nose as a bare, grassy, noble hop character adds a touch of levity. Mineral, yeast and bread sit on the end rather plainly, but do impart a freshness.
Soft, well-attenuated and leaning on the caramel malt for a light sticky sweetness as it mixes with the base malt. Lightly grainy and bready at times with low but moderately-engaging carbonation. Pretty standard, well-executed, traditional dunkel, on the lighter side. Won’t find any (American) hops here....
Tried from Can on 12 Apr 2017 at 18:46
trapped (8673) reviewed
Helles Golden Lager from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
6.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draught @ Albion. Clear golden with smallish white foamy head, faint citrus aroma, high carbonation, smooth malty taste with a hint of hay flavor, smooth body, abrupt finish. Very nice Dortmunder.
Tried on 30 Mar 2017 at 16:28
omhper (46303) reviewed
Vienna from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
Keg at The Farmhouse, Burlington. Hazy amber, mid sized head. Gentle bready malt aroma. Mid dry with medium body and well rounded mouthfeel. Toasty firm malt, mild grassy hops. Mid bitter finish. Harmonious and very likable.
Tried on 10 Feb 2017 at 18:53
tfontana (8004) reviewed
Bohemian-Style Pilsner from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass. Appearance is hazy greenish-yellow with mild sparkle, finger-width white fizzy head with poor retention and sparse lacing. Aroma is bread, biscuit, light Munich malt, light fruit--grape?, and champagne-like yeastiness. Taste is strong cracker malt and light fruitiness, mixed with stronger European hop bitterness. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with lightly fizzy texture, average carbonation and dry crackery-bitter finish. Overall, I’m not high on the style as a whole, but there is a fair amount going on here, all things being equal.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Feb 2017 at 19:07
AdamChandler (5744) reviewed
Bohemian-Style Pilsner from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Been craving a Pils for the last few weeks. Grabbed this 6-pack at the local store. Bets by 4/20/2017. poured into a tall german glass. tan yellow head. lots of tiny bubbles. Looks golden yellow. Nose is a Saaz bomb with corn, rice, lemon, pine. Decent carb, filling and brings on the burps. Very crisp, refreshing until the finish when you get a cereal like flavor with honey and pine.
Tried on 08 Jan 2017 at 16:13
Chalumeaux (5158) reviewed
Dunkel Lager from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Poured from bottle thanks Chris DeMont amber brown with a tan head. Aromas of bread caramel nuts and toffee. Taste is sweet caramel brown bread toasty nut.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Dec 2016 at 21:27
CoastGuardVet (10376) reviewed
Collaboration Beer Number 1: Hoppy Märzen from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Also known as \"Collaboration #1\" with Hoppebrau.
I poured my can into a mug (correct for the style).
The appearance was a burnt orange almost brown color with a thin white foamy head that concaved to leave a little valley of a head in the middle. Moderate messy lacing.
The aroma leads with the grassy bitter hopping, full and charging the malts in a nice smooth sweet malty lager yeastiness. Rich caramel, toastiness, nuts all come together to blend nicely.
The flavor takes the malts nicely to the hops, blends sweet and lets the bitterness really collide well. Huge bitter hoppy burst into the malts in the aftertaste. Dry grassy bitter finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Good carbonation is felt all around. A bit more bitterness comes across than normally associated with the amber lager style, but hey, the brewers warned us, right? I’m not worried, are you?
Overall, an amber lager hopheads could really like. I say try it if you see it.
Tried from Can on 30 Nov 2016 at 16:58
Garrold (11729) reviewed
Helles Golden Lager from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Tap. Reservoir, Waterbury, VT. Clear gold. No head. Nose has grassy, grainy malts. Light, grassy hop. Some sweet flora. Taste is light sweet, with some grassy, grainy dry character. Clean mouthfeel. Sweet and grassy finish, that dries out at the end. Nice lager.
Tried from Draft on 22 Nov 2016 at 20:08
GRM (7543) reviewed
India Pale Lager from von Trapp Brewing
9 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can 473 ml, date of 6/16/16, gift from Philippe Boutin (merci!), savoured on November 15 2016; eye: amber, clear, good effervescence, good sheet of tan head that thins out, average lacing; nose: malt, caramel, light spicy notes; mouth: malt, caramel, hops, dry finale in malt with good presence of bittering hops, medium-light body, rather carbonated, more bitter than expected, mildly sweet, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Canette, 473 ml, date 6/16/16, cadeau de Philippe Boutin (merci!), savourée le 15 novembre 2016; œil : ambrée, limpide, bonne effervescence, bonne couverture de mousse fauve qui s’amincit, dentelle moyenne; nez : malt, caramel, léger houblon épicé; bouche : malt, caramel, houblon, finale sèche en malt avec bonne présence de houblon amérisant, corps moyen-léger, plutôt carbonatée, plus amère que prévue, moyennement sucrée, texture légèrement râpeuse; en résumé : bien
Tried from Can on 15 Nov 2016 at 16:31