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.
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving scant sheets. Caramel and put fruit aromas. Soft with sour citrus and dusty caramel upfront turning to sour, bitter earth in the lasting finish.
Can: Poured a light yellow color lager with a large pure white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of floral hops notes with light cereal notes is quiet pleasant. Taste is also a good mix of floral hops notes with light bitterness notes and some clean cereal notes with hints of residual sugar notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Very smooth to drink with just enough hops to provide some flavours.
Reviewed from notes. This was poured into a pilsner glass. The appearance was a straw yellow color with a two finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipates at a nice pace. Moderate thin stringy lace. The aroma takes in sharp spicy Saaz hops (grassy bitter harsh) and let’s it flow over a nice contrast of sweet biscuits. Evens out nicely. The flavor takes in a nice blend of the previously mentioned aromas to boot. Light balanced aftertaste of biscuits/breadiness to grassy hops and that rides into the finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a fabulous sessionability about it. Low carbonation seems to hit appropriately. Spicy hops balance with their sharpness over my tongue.Overall, really nice Czech pilsner that I would have again.
Pours hazy gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving soapy lacing. Bread and citrus aromas. Medium bodied with sweet hot bready yeast and sharp pith front to back. Lasting sour pith finish.
12 oz. bottle shared by Willrunforbeer, much thanks! Almost clear orange in color liquid. Aroma is lager yeast, (the essence of old malt) bread and English toffee.
The flavor didn’t surprise me one bit. Toasted grain, light caramel, and a bready yeast. Body is lighter side of medium. Astringent after taste without any real hop flavor. Serviceable.
Tap to start the Troy beer fest my main goal in attending is try new NY breweries and up New England ticks when possible. Amber pour. Thinnish nose of cereal and malt. Tastes of cereal, burnt hay, some earth. Thin bodied but drinkable and pleasant on this lovely afternoon.