- Long Trail Brewing Company
Infobox Brewery
name = Long Trail Brewing Company
caption =
location =Bridgewaters Corners, Vermont United States
owner =
opened =1989
production =
active_beers = brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Altbier|style=Altbier brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Double Bag|style=Strong ale brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Hefeweizen|style=Hefeweizen brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Hit The Trail Ale|style=Brown ale brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail India Pale Ale|style=IPA brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Blackbeary Wheat|style=Fruit beer
seasonal_beers = brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Harvest Ale|style=Amber ale brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Hibernator|style=Scottish ale brewbox_beer|name=Long Trail Belgian White|style=Witbier
other_beers =Long Trail Brewery is a
microbrewery located inBridgewater, Vermont , USA. It was opened in May of1989 by Andy Pherson, who now serves both as the company's president and brewmaster. The company's first brewery was located in the basement of the Bridgewater Woolen Mill in Vermont'sGreen Mountains , but by1995 the company had become popular enough that it was able to relocate to a state-of-the-art brewery and visitor center (featuring an open-air deck overlooking the Ottaquechee River) in Bridgewater Corners, VT.Long Trail makes a number of different styles of beer, mostly English-style top-fermented
ale s, 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 aKölsch -style ale as a spring seasonal. In the summer of 2006 Long Trail added ahefeweizen to its list of brews. In the Fall of 2007, they changed the Blackbeary Wheat offering to full-year availability. It was previously Long Trail's summer seasonal brew.Long Trail distributes its product throughout
New England , and inNew York andNew Jersey . 40% of its beer is consumed in Vermont.The
Long Trail is a 272 mile hiking trail that runs the length ofVermont .The Long Trail Brewery was featured in the Discovery television show Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe in the Chick Sexer episode #1.7.
External links
* [http://www.longtrail.com Company website]
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