Long Trail Brewing Co.

The Long Trail Brewing Company began its mission to brew high quality craft beer in November 1989. A humble beginning in the basement of the old Bridgewater Woolen Mill along the Ottauquechee River in the Green Mountains of Vermont was soon outgrown so the brewery packed up and “Hit the Trail” up the road to a riverside hay field where they now reside.

Long Trail takes the words “Environmentally Conscious” very seriously. Appreciation for our surroundings and an understanding of the resource limitations of our local environment have inspired our company to consider ways to minimize the environmental impact our brewery has on our area. All spent grain and spent hops are fed to local dairy cattle as a valuable food supplement, steam from the brewing process is condensed into hot water and the thermal energy is used to heat water for the next brewing cycle saving up to 2,000 gallons of propane a month. By combining the very best ingredients available – like pure Vermont drinking water – and environmentally minded brewing processes with a genuine passion for brewing high quality craft beer, Long Trail proudly produces an extraordinary Family of Fine Ales.

Long Trail Ale

ABV: 4.6%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: German dishes, smoked or grilled meats. Sandwiches, hearty soups and pizza.
Brewery: Long Trail Brewery
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: German Altbier

Long Trail Ale is a full-bodied amber ale modeled after the “Alt-Biers” of Dusseldorf, Germany. Long Trail’s top fermenting yeast and cold finishing temperature results in a complex, yet clean, full flavor. Originally introduced in November of 1989, Long Trail Ale quickly became, and remains, the largest selling craft-brew in Bermont. It is a multiple medal winner at the Great American Beer Festival.

Long Trail Berliner Weisse

ABV: 3.4%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability:  Limited/Rotating

Our Berliner Weisse is a tart, fruity, highly effervescent and refreshing ale that is relatively low in alcohol. At only 3.4% ABV, this highly-sessionable brew has a light body and a very dry finish.

A regional specialty of Berlin, it was referred to by Napoleon’s troops in 1809 as the “Champagne of the north,” due to its lively and elegant character. Described by some as the most purely refreshing beer in the world, only two traditional German breweries still produce this style.

Long Trail Belgian White

ABV: 4.7%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Poultry, lightly seasoned fish and chevre
Seasonal Availability: Summer
Beverage Type: Belgian Witbier

Our Belgian White Ale is modeled after the original Belgian Witbiers brewed in monasteries during the early 14th century. The soft notes of citrus and spice are topped with a light, fluffy head that finishes clean and crisp. This fresh and natural ale is our summer seasonal brew, perfect for lounging lake-side or celebrating trail’s end…ENJOY!

Long Trail Blackberry Wheat

ABV: 4.0%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Salads, light appetizers (no sweets!)
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: American Wheat

Light & refreshing with a hint of blackberry at the finish makes this beer a real thirst quencher! This brew combines 2-row Pilsen malt and of course plenty of malted wheat.

Long Trail Culmination

ABV: 9.2%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability:  Winter Seasonal

Back for the 2015/2016 cold weather season, this dark chocolate porter is a very rich, roasty beer with top notes of chocolate derived from freshly roasted cacao.

Strong, but relatively smooth on the palate, a malty sweetness is balanced with bitterness and a slight dryness from the alcoholic strength. Look for notes of coffee, liquorice, mild chocolate and more subtle hints of fruit and spices.

Long Trail Double Bag Ale

ABV: 7.2%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: German dishes, smoked or grilled meats. Sandwiches, hearty soups and pizza.
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: Strong Ale

This malty, full bodied double alt is also known as “Stickebier” – German slang for “Secret Brew”. Double Bag was originally offered only in Long Trail’s brewery taproom as a special treat to their visitors. With an alcohol content of 7.2%, please indulge in moderation. The Long Trail Brewing Company is very proud to have Double Bag named Malt Advocate’s “Beer of the Year” in 2001. Malt Advocate is a national magazine devoted to “expanding the boundaries of fine drinks”. Their Panel of judges like to keep things simple, and therefore of thousands of elgible competitors they award only two catagories;”Imported” and “Domestic”. It is a great honor to receive this recognition.

Long Trail Double IPA

ABV: 8.6%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Beef brisket, grilled lamb and sharp, rich artisenal blue cheese

Long Trail Double IPA offers true reward to those seeking intensely sensual hop flavor. Double IPA is a full-flavored ale featuring a good malt backbone combined with an aroma brimming with tantalizing citrus and pine notes.

Long Trail Harvest

ABV: 4.4%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Pork dishes or a beef vegetable soup.
Seasonal Availability: Fall
Beverage Type: English Brown Ale

A light and malty experience modeled after one of Long Trail’s favorite old sylye brews.

Long Trail Hibernator

ABV: 6%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: A hearty Beef stew, roast beef or roast leg of Lamb
Seasonal Availability: Winter

This robust, malty brew will take the bite from a cold winter night

Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin

ABV: 8%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Seasonal

This limited release, seasonal treat is small batch brewed with pumpkins, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves with increased malts and a touch of bitterness for the perfect balance.

Long Trail Imperial Stout

ABV: 8.8%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Limited Release

A dark-as-night Imperial Stout dominated up front by a bold roasted malt flavor, which reveals hints of caramel, coffee and chocolate. Balanced by a subtle hop bitterness, this brew features earthy, peat smoke aromas and a warming finish.

The latest in our Brush & Barrel Series, we’ve teamed up with Vermont artist Tom Cullins whose bold, beautiful work adorns the bottle label. Cullins’ dynamic use of color and space provides a warming visual that echoes the structured chaos of the malts and hops that create this dynamic brew.

Long Trail IPA

ABV: 5.9%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: The additional hops complement spicy and full flavored dishes
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: English IPA

Real India Pale Ale (IPA), as it was first brewed in the days of the British Empire, was not the carefully filtered brew that we call IPA beer today. The first IPAs were unfiltered and featured extra hops and higher strength as a preservative for the long trip from England to the colony of India. Our Traditional IPA ale is naturally carbonated, dry-hopped & unfiltered like the old days.

Long Trail Limbo IPA

ABV: 7.6%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Year Round

Limbo IPA is the first year-round Long Trail offering to be born out of our new Farmhouse Pilot Brewery. We had such great success with the IPAs coming out of our Pilot facility (in both our “Farmhouse Ales” – brewery only – and “Brown Bag” – regionally distributed, draught-only) that we decided to release Limbo IPA, in package and draught, year-round.

When we launched Brown Bag in 2012, a web page dedicated to customer feedback was put online. After experiencing the first IPA in the series, one customer’s email remarked, “You’d better not leave me sitting here in Limbo until you decide to brew some of your new IPA’s year-round.” And so became Limbo.

At 80 IBU’s, we knew this Australian & West Coast hopped IPA warranted packaging that was equally as bold, so we broke the Long Trail mold and went to some unchartered territory. The package graphics and tap handles are like nothing we have ever done before and are sure to turn some heads. Limbo six packs will have a special die-cut design to showcase the artwork. The bottle will feature unique crowns with artwork on both sides. This style of IPA is something we have heard our customers screaming for and our Brewers have hit this recipe out of the park.

Long Trail Mostly Cloudy

ABV: 4.7%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability:  Summer Seasonal

A mostly cloudy body is capped with a light, fluffy head that reveals soft notes of citrus and spices. Whether you prefer partly sunny or mostly cloudy, this brew will happily keep your glass half full.

Mostly Cloudy is modeled after the original Belgian Witbiers brewed in monasteries during the 14th Century. We’ve refined the recipe of our Belgian White, given the packaging a new look and released it under the new name, Mostly Cloudy—although it pairs equally well with sunrays and cloudy days.

Long Trail Pale Ale

ABV: 5.7%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Indian or Mediterranean
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: Pale Ale

Long Trail Pale Ale beer is brewed with the finest all natural ingredients and award winning Vermont water. This classic American style pale ale features a modest malt body and a well balanced citrus, pine hop aroma. Our Pale Ale is lightly filtered to provide a delightfully robust flavor experience. ENJOY!

Long Trail Pollenator

ABV: 4.6%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Chicken, salads and spicy dishes
Seasonal Availability: Spring
Beverage Type: Spring Ale

Features a medium amber body, balanced with a modest amount of Willamette hops. This spring ale is highly drinkable, flavorful and finishes clean and crisp.

Long Trail Pumpkin Ale

ABV: 5.5%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability:  Fall Seasonal

When the nights grow cold and the moon hangs low, we carve out a space for Pumpkin Ale’s great return. Artfully brewed with all natural pumpkins, Pumpkin Ale features a slightly sweet finish from additions of cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger that deliver a well-balanced brew reminiscent of grandma’s pumpkin pie.

The perfect drink for the fall season, pumpkin beers date back to colonial America when malted barley was sparse and pumpkins grew in abundance. We continue the tradition with this seasonal treat that’s ripe for the pickin’.

Long Trail Sick Day

ABV: 6.8%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability:  Winter Seasonal

A hoppy brown ale built for winter’s deepest days, “Sick Day” is knee-deep in piney, spicy hop flavors and nicely balanced by a warming, toasty malt presence that’ll warm your soul after a day in the snow.

Grab your gear and call out, because some days are too good to miss.

Long Trail Smash Pilsner

ABV: 6.8%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Limited
Beverage Type: Strong Ale

Brewed with a single malt and single hop to showcase the characteristics of each ingredient.

SMaSH Project #1 

Pilsner malt // This strongly-flavored malt delivers a pale color and distinct sweetness.

Galaxy hops // An Australian variety with clear-cut citrus and passion fruit notes.

Long Trail Stand Out

ABV: 5.2%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability:  Spring Seasonal

Stand Out is a renewal of the classic American pale ale — brewed in the spirit of adventure, and showcasing the Equinox hop. This brand new variety features pronounced herbal and citrus notes.

An American pale ale construction allows the Equinox hops to shine. We’ve stepped off-the-beaten-path with this recipe, so brave the elements, reach the peak and savor life’s stand out moments.

Long Trail Summer Ale

ABV: 4.3%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability:  Summer Seasonal

An unfiltered golden ale made to chill out summer’s hottest days. Remarkably light on the palate, with a soft Pilsner malt character and a distinct citrus hop aroma deriving from dry-hopped additions of Citra hops. Each sip finishes with a refreshing bitterness that invites another. At 4.3% ABV, this golden beauty is a truly quaffable drinking experience.

Long Trail Trible Bag

ABV: 9.2%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: German foods including smoked meats, pork, sausage and grilled meats
Seasonal Availability: Limited
Beverage Type: Strong Ale

Triple Bag is brewed in a small batch from single infusion that uses only the first runnings of the mash. The result is a brew made from only the purest part of the grains, providing a uniquely rich and dense flavor, with an aroma reminiscent of the finest dessert wines. This brew is naturally carbonated and is an example of brewing purity that is rarely experienced by those other than brewers themselves.

Long Trail Farmhouse Variety Pack

Includes:  Black Rye IPA, Session IPA, White IPA, and American IPA.

Long Trail Winter Survival Variety Pack

Includes: 3 bottles each of Long Trail Ale, Blackbeary Wheat, Traditional IPA and Hibernator.

Long Trail Cranberry Gose

Year-round lineup in May, this fruit-filled take on the German-style Gose takes you from bog to barrel in one sip.

Brewed with cranberries from the Bluewater Farms in Massachusetts, coriander and a splash of salt. The result is a refreshingly tart and effervescent cranberry concoction built to fuel your warm weather-inspired wanderlust.

Long Trail Green Blaze IPA

Blaze a hoppy trail. Guide yourself through the lupulin landscape of pine, resin and tropical fruit hop notes in this trail-worthy American IPA.

The newest year-round offering in our family of ales, Green Blaze IPA features big pine, tropical fruit and resin hop notes with a light, biscuity malt backbone.

Long Trail Space Juice

A Double-IPA of the cosmic kind, this super-limited offering is brewed with two-row and caramel malts that lay the foundation for hops, hops and more hops.

The truth is out there, so send your taste buds to orbit with the out-of-this-world citrus and pine notes of Galaxy, Mosaic, Citra, Columbus and Ella hops.

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Long Trail Citrus Limbo IPA

Forbidden fruit is within reach in this grapefruit and tangerine infused take on our mouthwatering Limbo IPA. Dry-hopped with Galaxy and Mosaic hops for an added citrus punch.