Brusque Austrian-styled Vermont/Mass collab bitterer than most German lagers due to upped Noble hop herbage. Slick roasted barleycorn crisping, saltine cracker remnant and mild whiskeyed rye bent gain polite orange oiling before pilsner/Vienna-malted baked breading emerges.
Dry straw clear German-styled premium pilsner retains stylishly bolder edge. Spritzy lemon effervescence perks up musky perfume-hopped raw graining, grassy hop astringency, black peppered herbage and sour vegetal whims. Sturdy, brusque and steadfast.
Dry limited edition Czech-styled amber lager given mellow spruce tips minting as mild lemon-licked herbage and brown leafy residue waver atop placid caramelized Vienna malting.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, worthy Bamberg-styled pale lager with smoked beechwood borders on being a distinct rauchbier – just a tad too light-bodied, arid and less flavorful than regal Aecht brews from Germany. If there’s one beer style Americans, as of 2024, have not perfected, it’s the meat cured rauchbier – most come out soapy, weak, compromised. However, Von Trapp, in collab with Austin-based Live Oak, have crafted a fairly resilient smoked beer. The beechwood smoke brings out subtle salami-pastrami salting in a sweet lager malt setting with mild Noble hop spicing fading into hickory-seared backdrop.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, summery radler plies juicy red grapefruit zest to tart lemonade sugaring and lightly salted soda fizz. Serve to fruited light lager fans.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, Vermont maple syrup glazes cocoa-dried peat and mild vanilla splurge of easygoing Bavarian-style dark ale.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, sessionable ‘light lagered’ radler prickles salty pink grapefruit perfuming with wispy lemony orange zesting and ultra-dry lime brining. Delicate lemonade-sugared pink grapefruit pith, rind and seed tartness settles softly above teasing ginger-licked herbage seeping thru light pilsner malting.
On tap at Triton -Beach Haven, dry-hopped kolsch collab with fellow Vermont brewery, Upper Pass, wrings persistent champagne-dried lemon musk, sedate clementine oiling and grassy hop herbage out of white breaded pilsner malt moderation.
On tap at Jealous Monk, dewy dark lager with mildest smoked rauchbier influence provides wispy smoke bacon dash for Bakers chocolate, chicory coffee and ashen chestnut whims above cocoa-powdered carafa malting.
On tap at Ambulance, earthen cellared fungi drapes toffee-spiced brown breaded molasses sweetness and distant fig-pecan-walnut scheme to its dewy wet wood bottom. On tap at Seven Lakes Station 2023, raw-honeyed mineral graining spotted.
Classic German lager retains robustness despite light body. Muskily cellared mineral graining, husked maize dryness and floral lemon twist glide over herbal hop astringency with dead-on precision.
On tap at Plank Pizza, silken boho pils with muskily herbal Euro hop profile gains sour lemon licks, dark floral wisps and mild herbal snips above daintily mineral grained toasting. Sturdily designed.
