Trapp Golden Helles Lager - Trapp Family Lodge Brewery

smakawhat

Maryland

3.98/5  rDev -2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Poured on tap at the Trapp Family Lodge into a stoneware mug 16 oz.

Well I can't see this beer other than peering down into the mug after the white creamy foam head settles, ergo I dock off .5 a point. What I can see is a nice fourteen carat gold and clear body, nice creamy white top to go with it. Otherwise it's a 4.

Great smelling crisp malts on this, white bread, a little bit of raw dough and yeast. Bakery fresh smelling. Very nice.

Taste matches the nose nicely. Big huge crisp malts and toasty white bread on this beer. Some hidden sticky character in there also, with some nice simple grass like hop. Refreshing, with a big carbonation matching crispy character.

Overall a real light brew full of flavor. Great beer to have on the deck.

Serving type: on-tap

08-25-2012 01:56:25 | More by smakawhat

CliffBrake

New Hampshire

4.08/5  rDev +0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

On tap at Trapp Family Lodge.

Crystal bright light golden color with a modest head and lacing.

Rich malty and spicy aroma. Full complex taste on a light lager. It is amazing how much flavor can be piled on such a light frame. Crisp and refreshing with a dry finish. A great example of the Helles style.

Serving type: on-tap

03-01-2012 01:37:50 | More by CliffBrake

Hojaminbag

Colorado

4.33/5  rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Trapp Golden Helles has a clear, straw colored body and a creamy, bright white. Both retention and lacing are quite good.

The aroma has an array of pale malt as well as grassy hops.

This is a good lager. Lots of pale malt characteristics, including a light sweetness, some crackers and bread. The hops and malt are balanced quite well, with a moderate bitterness and plenty of grassy and earthy flavors from the hops. This is a nice, crisp helles lager.

The body and carbonation are right on for the style.

This beer was good enough to have a few of. I'm looking forward to trying more Trapp beers on future trips, and maybe even visiting the brewery.

Serving type: on-tap

01-23-2012 20:32:59 | More by Hojaminbag

tempest

Pennsylvania

4.2/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Had a pint at the Farm House in Burlington VT. Damn, it's hard to ask for much more from a helles. There's a crisp dry Brady malt character in the aroma with a little balance of spicy hops. There's mild lager fruit over the malt, but it's not sweet. Otherwise it's clean and super drinkable. Find this beer.

Serving type: on-tap

01-13-2012 12:21:12 | More by tempest

Jayli

Massachusetts

3.95/5  rDev -2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Had on draft 12/7 at The Trapp Family Lodge at lunch with the traditional Austrian beef and potato stew.
Served in a pilsner glass

A: This beer pours a light, clear, straw yellow with a two finger of bonewhite foamy head on top. Wisps of lacing are left on the glass.

S: Nose is bready and grainy, with a touch of sweetness to it.

T: Taste starts rather sweet and bready at first, but then lightens to a grain, grassy flavoring. Not a complex beer but a nicely done beer.

M: Lighter side of medium body, medium carbonation, crisp at first with a touch oily finish.

O: Goes down easy, tasty, not filling, mild kick, a very good representation of the style.

Serving type: on-tap

12-20-2011 02:03:54 | More by Jayli

jlindros

Massachusetts

4.2/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Tap at the reservoir restaurant waterbury, VT.

Pours light head, crystal clear golden pils color.

Nose nice light toasty pilsner malts, nice light lager fruits and crispness, light soft decoction like malts, hint of grassy floral like noble hops.

Taste is nice lager flavors, light fruits and very crisp, lots of toasty malts almost bready, bit soft, grainy and straw, light grassy almost fruity floral hops with a touch of bitterness that increases quite a bit on the finish, which also comes clean and dry.

Mouth is lighter bodied decent carb.

Overall really nice, great lagers, tons of cracked straw and toasty pils like malts, nice fruity lager, clean crisp finish with nice hops overall.

Serving type: on-tap

11-14-2011 03:39:00 | More by jlindros

plaid75

New York

4.47/5  rDev +10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

On draft at Leunig's Bistro, Burlington, Vermont.

Poured a medium straw hue with a one finger foamy white head. There was good retention and lacing.

The smell featured fresh bready malts with a vibrant grassy noble hop.

The taste was likewise fresh with clean soft malts and a sparking drying hop spice. Good cracker like finish with a touch of sweetness on the very back end.

The mouthfeel was typical of the style. Fine carbonation.

Overall a top notch lager and a super drinkable treat.

Serving type: on-tap

09-20-2011 15:31:32 | More by plaid75

tobelerone

New Jersey

3.9/5  rDev -3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Took home an oversized bottle of this from the brewery. You get a big fluffy head that fades very slowly and settles down to about a 1/4 inch...strong, clinging lace. Nearly clear, light gold color. Faint aromas of malt and lightly spicy hops.

Taste is classic, full of quality malt, and mildly bitter. This is what the AAL's aspire to be....like a Bud made with care and quality ingredients. Crisply dry finish with vaguely lingering bitterness. A nice example of what is to me a none-too-interesting style. Not the hugest fan of this kind of beer but it's clearly done very well.

Serving type: bottle

09-12-2011 12:44:46 | More by tobelerone

BeerIsland

Pennsylvania

4.63/5  rDev +14%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

This is my second Trapp beer tasted and I continue to be overwhelmed. I told my daughter to bring as much of this home from Vermont as she could and she was kind enought to do so. This beer comes in a big flippy bottle. This is as rich and luscious a Helles as I've ever had, which is plenty. A nice hazy gold in the glass; the bottle-poured head fluffed right up. Decent lacing followed the beer down all the way. Wonder-full malts with just the right hop balance create a great, smooth taste. The sweetness is in there but just enough. The conditioning is light which adds to the silky mouthfeel. This is a great beer!

Serving type: bottle

09-05-2011 18:56:19 | More by BeerIsland

johnnnniee

New Hampshire

3.85/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

On tap at The Reservoir Waterbury Vt.
Pours a deep golden color with a huge rich off white head that sticks around forever. Smells of grainy bready malts with rich melanoids mixed in. Earthy floral hops are more aggressive than I would have thought. Taste is sweet grainy toasty bready malts with hints of honey, burnt sugar and an earthy hop bitterness that threw me at first. Finish leaves a sweetness with an earthy hop bitterness. Medium body with crisp carbonation and a sweet almost sticky mouthfeel. Great Lager that I'm glad I tried on a whim.

Serving type: on-tap

07-14-2011 22:17:14 | More by johnnnniee

PicoPapa

Connecticut

3.73/5  rDev -8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

On tap. Pours a translucent straw color with a 1/2 inch of head. Good amount of lacing. Sweet toasted malt aroma. Very crisp and refreshing. Slightly buttery. Nice sweet malty flavor. Overall its nothing over the top but its a solid beer. Worth having again. Highly drinkable and very satisfying.

Serving type: on-tap

04-30-2011 18:22:30 | More by PicoPapa

nkersten

Illinois

4.33/5  rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Poured into a massive imperial pilsner glass, golden with a slight haze and a big foamy white head that has a decent retention. Smell is bready malts, sweet and somewhat sugary, some raw grains. Taste is sweet up front with a slightly bitter finish, sweet bread dough, pilsner malts, spicy hops. Medium bodied with a medium carbonation, clean finish. Helles is one of my favorite German styles and this does not disappoint. I think this is one of the best American takes on the style and I would gladly order this whenever I can. A very drinkable beer.

Serving type: on-tap

12-16-2010 20:26:55 | More by nkersten

Cascade77

Vermont

4.63/5  rDev +14%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

a) From tap at the source in a Trapp Lager pint glass. Straw color and crystal clear. Bright white, head. About an inch. A few bubles. I'm told they filter this beer and that's fine with me. It's gorgeous.

s) A little grain, some sweetness. Not much in the way of hops as expected.

t) Bready, grainy but not as much as the smell would lead on. Just the right amount of bitterness at the end without getting in the way. All kinds of flavor for such a light, clear beer. Just a hint of sulfur but pleasantly so.

m) Crisp, light, medium carbonation which makes it go down well.

d) Off the charts. Quite simply one of the most drinkable beers I've had, and it's winter. Can't imagine how nice this must go down on a hot summer day. Rich in flavor without being heavy.

Well done.

Serving type: on-tap

12-15-2010 15:33:51 | More by Cascade77

youbrewidrink

Vermont

4.22/5  rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

I enjoyed this at the brewery, on the deck, on a sunny autumn day, along with a great sandwich.

The pour was a crystal clear golden hue with a couple inches of fine bubbled head in a cut glass stein.

Aroma was a clean grain and light malt.

To me the tase was bready and clean malt (went great with a rueben). I really enjoyed to full backbone of this beer with out it being too heavy.

This is a very tasty beer with great drinkablity.

Serving type: on-tap

09-13-2010 16:06:57 | More by youbrewidrink

mentor

Colorado

3.88/5  rDev -4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Pours a half finger of white fine head over a brilliant light lager liquid. Gorgeous. Smells pils and vienna malt with wonderful noble hops character of oranges and wildflower. A little bit of corn and a little bit of mineral.

Tastes quite refreshing. Tame malt sweet plays with slightly brisk hop bitter and enjoyable hop flavor. Malt flavor is dry grainy and bready/crust. Hop bitter is clean and sharp in the end like a good czech pils, just not quite as intense. Hop flavor is noble earthy and grassy. The finish leaves a bit of unpleasant dms rising retronasal. The aftertaste is dry and effervescent, similar to the aftertaste of carbonated mineral water. Decent drinkability on this cooling late-summer evening. Light, but still a bit heavy in the mouth for the style. Md-strong carbonation.

Very tough to get the spicy hop zip in a beer as gently malted and hopped as this. Well done.

Serving type: bottle

08-31-2010 05:05:29 | More by mentor

thekevlarkid

Maryland

4.15/5  rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Off tap at the brewery this beer was a perfectly clear, golden color with one finger of frothy white head. The retention of the cap was average but the collar did last quite a while and the lacing was scattered and streaky. The aroma was nice and dry, crystal malt, Vienna malt, lager yeast, grains and a slight boozy note. The flavors were very dry and clearly grainy (most the Vienna/Crystal again) with hints of toasted malt and a little mustiness as it warmed up. Much like a Pilsner I found it to be crisp and refreshing. The mouthfeel was creamy, the body medium/light and the carbonation perfect.

Serving type: on-tap

07-17-2010 00:25:49 | More by thekevlarkid

Brad007

Vermont

4.03/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

I decided to seek out the actual Trapp Lodge and the brewery there and almost gave up when I misunderstood the directions of the cashier. However, I was able to sample 3 different lagers.

Pours a light gold color with a thin head into my glass.

Aroma is full of sweet, pungent malt. About right on sweetness.

Taste is crisp with malt that is bready, slightly grainy. A small hop bite is present as well. Delicious.

Mouthfeel is full of lingering hop grassiness and malt. Very nice.

A great new local example that is more than appropriate for this setting.

Serving type: on-tap

06-05-2010 00:17:42 | More by Brad007

kingcrowing

Vermont

4.33/5  rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

On cask poured into a plastic pint glass.

Pours a very light yellow with a super light white head and a very thin head. Nose is light and hoppy and very nice. It's sweet and fruity.

Tate is phenomenal, it's light ad crisp and super hoppy. It's very drinkable ad smooth. One of the best helles i've ha in a long time!

Serving type: cask

05-01-2010 21:20:37 | More by kingcrowing

Bierman9

New Hampshire

3.83/5  rDev -5.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Stopped into The Three Penny Taproom in Montpelier on 12APR10 and had a pint of this new offering, for $5.00

Color was medium copper, and it was clear. Head was nice, starting at 1/4" of creamy, fluffy bubbles, and lasts quite well. Some carbo is swirling topside, and solid lacework is left behind. Nose is very mild, but what there is present is light breadiness with a touch of grass. Body is medium, and the prickle factor is light, easing the passage across the tongue.

Taste is bready and crackery, with mild bitterness right off. Crisp and dry throughout, the hops are a little grassy with a smattering of spiciness present. A solid Helles; quite nice, all in all. Zum Wohl!

3.9
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | drink: 4

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Serving type: on-tap

04-19-2010 16:36:06 | More by Bierman9