Long Trail Brewing Company
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Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, U.S. | |
Products | Beer |
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Owner | Harpoon Brewery |
Website | longtrail.com |
Long Trail Brewing Company is a regional
Long Trail Ale, a German Altbier, is the company's flagship beer. It is the largest selling craft-brew in Vermont.[2]
In June 2022 it was acquired by Harpoon Brewery.[3]
Beers
Long Trail makes a number of different styles of beer, mostly English-style top-fermented ales, but its flagship beer is Long Trail Ale, a Düsseldorf-style altbier. It also participates in the tradition of brewing a "Sticke" Alt (from a dialect German word for secret) known as Long Trail Double Bag, though unlike the German originators of the style, Long Trail makes Double Bag available year-round. During the 1990s it also brewed a Kölsch-style ale as a spring seasonal.
In the summer of 2006 Long Trail added a
Brown Bag Series
The Brown Bag concept was developed in 1993 as a way for Long Trail to develop new recipes quickly without the added expense of graphic design and packaging. These small batch brews developed into Long Trail favorites like Double Bag, a year-round Strong Ale and Hit the Trail Ale, a limited release English Brown Ale.[4]
Although discontinued in the early 1990s, the Brown Bag Series was revived in October 2012 as a small-batch, limited release series that pays homage to the original Brown Bag concept. Thanks to a small-batch pilot brewing facility on Long Trail's campus, brewers can experiment with recipes on a small scale. The
Distribution
Long Trail Brewing Company distributes its product throughout
Misc.
The brewery's name derives from the Long Trail, a 272-mile hiking trail that snakes through the Green Mountains of Vermont.
In 2010, Long Trail Brewing Company acquired Otter Creek Brewing and with it Wolaver's Organic Brewery.
The Long Trail Brewery was featured in the Discovery Channel's television show Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe in the Chick Sexer episode #1.7.
In August 2014, Long Trail Brewing Company filed a trademark infringement suit against Bent Paddle Brewing Company for using a logo of a hiker with a backpack similar to their own. The suit was amicably settled in December 2014, with Bent Paddle agreeing to discontinue the use of that logo and both breweries making charitable donations to hiking-related groups in one another's states.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b Ayres, Tom (June 1996). "Long Trail Opens New Brewery". Yankee Brew News: Archive.
- ^ "Long Trail Ale - Long Trail Brewing Co". BeerAdvocate.
- ^ "Maker of Harpoon Beers to Acquire Vermont's Long Trail". 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ^ "Please Verify Your Age - Long Trail". www.longtrail.com.
- ^ Kennedy, Clare (11 Dec 2014). "Bent Paddle, Vermont brewer end trademark dispute". Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. Retrieved 16 April 2015.