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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7/10
Canned. Brown pour white head. Pretty nutty and some bread dough. Pretty good.
Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 01:52

7/10
Canned from moms, Amber pour, off white, caramels. Malty, crispy - good enough,......
Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 01:39

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Pours dark from draft Lots of foam. Nutty malts predominate. Some grain and hops.
Tried from Draft on 20 May 2025 at 01:39

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draught from Blind Tiger. Poured dark etc. Almost more Portery than schwarzbier - kind of thick.
Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:03

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
My 20th von Trapp beer rating. 16 ounce can from Pinocchio’s in Media, PA. Honey gold color. Fluffy white head. Bready malt aroma has a hint of honeysuckle. Flavor is sweet malt and herbal hops. Notes of honey and cut grass. Some minerality and spiciness as well. Wonderful balance and flavor. An excellent example of the Dortmunder style.
Tried from Can from Pinocchio's Beer Garden To Go on 18 May 2025 at 02:32

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pour is a darker gold with a large white head. Aroma is biscuit malt with also a bit of honey malt. Flavor is bready and dry with a little sweetness on the back end with a thicker than usual for the style mouthfeel. This was pretty good but the only negative and it is minor is that there was not much of a hop presence.
Tried from Can on 17 May 2025 at 18:43

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 8
Best by May 18th 2025.

Pours dark brown with reddish highlights, over a finger of off white foam.

Smell is some roasted malt, light grain, some aromas of hop and chocolate bitterness.

The taste is roasty, dark chocolate, not much sweetness, hoppy bitterness with some infused by the chocolate.

Medium bodied, good carbonation.
Excellent Black Lager!
Tried from Can on 12 May 2025 at 20:05

7/10 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

5.4/10 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

4.6/10 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