# von Trapp Brewing — Stowe, Vermont

> von Trapp Brewing in Stowe, Vermont, United States scores 3.96 out of 5 — Fine, #23 in Vermont. 60 beers tracked, mostly Pale Lager.

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von Trapp Brewing is a brewery in Stowe, Vermont, United States. We grade it Fine, with a score of 3.96 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #23 in Vermont. Of the 60 beers we track, 40% are Pale Lager and 23% Amber Lager.

## Rating

- Score: 3.96 out of 5
- Grade: Fine 🙂 — Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year.
- Ranked: #23 in Vermont · #1,746 in United States · #2,486 worldwide
- Popularity: Widely rated
- Beers tracked: 60

## About

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 capacity for 2,000 barrels per year quickly 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.

## What they brew

- Pale Lager — 40% of the beers we track
- Amber Lager — 23% of the beers we track
- Dark Lager — 16% of the beers we track
- Pale Ale — 8% of the beers we track
- Smoked Beer — 7% of the beers we track
- Wheat Beer — 3% of the beers we track
- Other — 3% of the beers we track

## Find them

- Address: 1333 Luce Hill Road, Stowe, Vermont, United States
- Coordinates: 44.470915, -72.7351224
- Website: http://www.vontrappbrewing.com/

## Breweries nearby

- [The Alchemist](https://finding.beer/brewery/the-alchemist-2338.md) — 4.77, Exceptional — Stowe, Vermont — 1 mi away
- [Idletyme Brewing](https://finding.beer/brewery/idletyme-brewing-4245.md) — 3.85, Fine — Stowe, Vermont — 1.1 mi away
- [Rock Art Brewery](https://finding.beer/brewery/rock-art-brewery-2282.md) — 3.78, Fine — Morristown, Vermont — 8.7 mi away
- [Lot Six Brewing Co.](https://finding.beer/brewery/lot-six-brewing-co-31193.md) — 4.15, Great — Cambridge, Vermont — 8.8 mi away
- [Freak Folk Bier](https://finding.beer/brewery/freak-folk-bier-19710.md) — 4.87, Exceptional — Waterbury, Vermont — 9.2 mi away
- [Soulmate Brewing Company](https://finding.beer/brewery/soulmate-brewing-company-30049.md) — 3.91, Fine — Morristown, Vermont — 9.3 mi away
- [Big Tree (The Reservoir)](https://finding.beer/brewery/big-tree-the-reservoir-4961.md) — 3.94, Fine — Waterbury, Vermont — 9.3 mi away
- [The Tropic Brewing](https://finding.beer/brewery/the-tropic-brewing-31113.md) — 4.18, Great — Waterbury, Vermont — 9.3 mi away

## Rankings this brewery appears in

- [Best breweries in Vermont](https://finding.beer/breweries/united-states/vermont.md)
- [Best breweries in United States](https://finding.beer/breweries/united-states.md)

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