von Trapp Brewing

Microbrewery 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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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Can. Grainy malt aroma with notes of straw, spicy hops, herbal hops and grassy hops. Pours clear pale golden colored with a thin white head that has little retention and very little lacing. Starts with grainy malt, spicy and herbal hops flavors. Finishes crisp and refreshing with straw and grassy hop flavors. Decent helles.

Tried from Can from Applejack Wine & Spirits on 20 Apr 2025 at 08:26


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

From a can. Looks Like beer with grapefruit. Nose is grapefruit. First taste is beer with grapefruit. Oddly enough, the bitter grapefruit rind flavor is similar to many ill brewed IPA. However, I know its certainly real grapefruit juice in there. Very good level of co2 as well. Not sugary at all. If you like bitter grapefruit juice, you'll like this puppy fer sher. Nice easy finish. Not bad.

Tried from Can from Giant Eagle - Moon Township on 12 Apr 2025 at 17:39


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Dark gold with a medium sized foamy white head. Tangy, sweet and citric. Medium finish and body.

Tried from Draft on 12 Apr 2025 at 01:19


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can, best by 7/26/2025, drunk 4/8/2025.
Clear deep brass-copper. Medium-sized, white head, lower retention.
Lightly toasted grain with a deep base malt adding a rich honey-like character. Clean and bright with a good complexity and mild, yet aromatic, herbal hop notes.
Rich and malty, maybe a touch soft and mushy, with very low bitterness. But there's some biscuit, some bitterness and an excellent complexity of malt, regardless. Clean, rich, malty.

Tried from Can from Julio’s Liquors on 08 Apr 2025 at 19:27


8.8
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Can. Roasted malt aroma with notes of chocolate, coffee, floral and spicy hops. Pours black with a finger of light brown head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with rich roasted malt, chocolate and spicy hop flavors. Finishes smooth and a bit dry with coffee and floral hop flavors. Excellent black beer.

Tried from Can from J&K Liquor on 05 Apr 2025 at 08:09


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Refrigerated 12 oz can poured into a glass. Dark brown with big light brown head. Aroma is smoked meats, medium body, medium/lower carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is smoke meats.

Tried from Can on 31 Mar 2025 at 01:50


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can at home. Deep golden pour and fine white top. Nose is bready, some malt, and honey. Tatses very similar. Semi sweet finish. Chewy palate.

Tried on 24 Mar 2025 at 02:39


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Can. Toffee malt aroma with notes of bready malt, toasted malt, grassy and floral hops. Pours clear copper colored with a thin white head that has some retention and a little lacing. Starts with toffee, bready malt and grassy hop flavors. Finishes smooth and creamy with toasted malt and floral hop flavors. Excellent Vienna lager.

Tried from Can from Applejack Wine & Spirits on 24 Mar 2025 at 02:18


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Draft at The King’s Head in Portland, Maine. The pour is a clear orangish golden with a ½ inch white head. The aroma is cracker malt, a touch of honey sweet and minimal bitterness. The taste is a nice clean mix of the cracker honey malt and soft earth bitterness towards the back. The palate is light to medium bodied, active carbonation and the dry clean finish.

Tried from Draft at The King's Head on 15 Mar 2025 at 16:54


5.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

Just Ok. Cleanish, but a bit heavy on the malt, weaker on hop. I think it wasn’t lagered enough, it carries some fairly significant fermentation-fruitiness in there. Doesn’t work, but it remains drinkable enough.

Tried on 08 Mar 2025 at 15:06