The Traveler Beer Company

Microbrewery in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by A&S Brewing

Established in 2012

Closed in 2018

Contact
209 Battery St, Suite 100, Burlington, VT, 05401, United States
Description
At Traveler Beer Company we expand what craft beers can be by adding new flavors and discovering old traditions. We discovered the shandy tradition in Europe and are thrilled to bring this unique style of beer home, to you. Shandys exemplify everything we look for in a craft beer—they are different from the mainstream, fun, inviting, and social, and thanks to the finest ingredients, shandys taste amazing.

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5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Can, $2 from vintage. Was hoping it wasn't dark purple and its not, just a tinge of off pink on pale. Hazy with a foamy creamy head. Smell is big beefy blackberries perfume for a nose, evolves to a milder fruity berry perfume of course. This better be good because I just had a pint of fresh blackberries for lunch. Taste is a dull brew with very little carbonation. Not as sickening sweet or cloying as I was anticipating. Directly out of the can it has better carbonation. Yes, dull fruit, typical dull fruitbeer feel. Probably less of a shandy and more like a fruit beer. Certainly nothing like the fresh berries I just had for lunch. Is anybody else getting tired of these variations on traveler?
Tried from Can on 17 Apr 2018 at 21:41

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Pours hazy, kind of like a wheat beer. Not much head or aroma to speak of. Taste isn't that great, mostly just a generic "beer" taste followed by strong hints of grapefruit. An "eh" beverage.
Tried on 02 Apr 2018 at 22:54

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
12 oz can. Cloudy orange-peach color with a large white head and great retention. Spotty lacing. Berry nose. Semi-flat, slick mouthfeel. Soft blackberry and cranberry flavors on a generic wheat base. Easy drinking, nothing special.
Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2018 at 22:52

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
Pours a slightly pink washed straw from a tap. Big berry aroma, similar flavor with a wheat finish. Just a little much, there’s no nuance, it’s almost a flavored malt beverage rather than a crafted beer. Just throw some sugar in it to get college kids drinking and wait for the returns. Meh.
Tried from Draft on 31 Jan 2018 at 19:21

6/10
Tried from Can on 29 Jan 2018 at 23:04

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Sampled on draft this beer poured a reddish plum color with a medium sized foamy pink-white head that left good lacing. The aroma was strong sweet artificial blackberry, yeast and mustiness. The flavor was musty and yeasty with cracker and artificial blackberry. Long finish. Medium body. Decent.
Tried from Draft on 22 Jan 2018 at 19:46

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
bottle - Hazy gold pour, smells of grainy malt and apples. The flavor is sweet. As expected apple dominates it. There's an uninspired, light bodied beer as the base for all that apple. Decent.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2017 at 08:20

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
So, I had some pineapple beers & ciders in the past and some of them made me gag, so I'm not sure what 's gonna happen with this can. Has a mild pineapple aroma, somewhat like artificial candy. Look is like that of a cloudy hefe. Decent co2. Pineapple is very present in the taste, not as bad as other pineapple beers, but yet I find it a little averse. Interesting and fairly well balanced with fruit and you actually can tell there may be some beer in there. Not one of the best radlers around. Probably I just care for beer with pineapple in it. Funny, cause I really do like pineaples adn real pineapple juice.
Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2017 at 16:17

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottle, didn’t write down the date, drunk 6/30/17.
Light haze to this bright copper-orange body. Lemon-flecked, beige head is small and rapidly recedes.
Lemon-like acidity mixes with artificial pineapple notes and a little bit of iced tea sits on the finish. Some saccharine-like sweetness is present, as well....
Juicy and very sweet, with some acidity but not nearly enough to balance the artificial and overdone pineapple. Fizzy, insipid carbonation and a watery, saccharine-heavy texture leaves sugar and light lemon lingering amidst unpleasant "pineapple".
Tried from Bottle on 16 Aug 2017 at 18:29

4.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
12 fl oz bottle as Traveler Grapefruit Shandy. Pours hazy yellow. White head. Aroma is grapefruity. Slight citrusy. Sweet grapefruity. Lasting sweet grapefruity finish. Slight mineral touch.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jul 2017 at 21:04