Long Trail Hibernator

Brewed by Long Trail Brewery
Style: Scottish Ale
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont USA

Serve in English pint, Thistle

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Clear amber with creamy light tan head. Aroma is earthy hop tinged with some caramle maltiness. Taste is more earthy hoppy than malty, but fairly well-balanced. Good bitter swallow.

12oz bottle labeled bottled on 11/16/06. Poured a medium and clear copperish color with a larger sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, honey, and all around fruity. Tastes of caramel, fruity, and had almost a sourish/bitter finish. Thin body that was bordering on watery. Some lacing left on the glass.

Tap at Downtown Bar and Grill. Slightly hazy deep amber colour. Aroma is quite clean and malty. Soft toasted malt, grainy and fresh tasting. Flavour is quite simple with light pale malt, a hint of toast and honey. Light caramel. Fairly clean. It’s pretty simple, but it’s not bad.

Thin and sweet...Similar to a scottish ale…Touches of honey and complacent malt…

Bottle. Pours clear amber/tawny with an average, frothy and bubbly cream colored head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (biscuit, light toast, nutty, caramel), light hops (woody), and average esters (fruity) with notes of light brown sugar and earth/cellar. Flavor is heavy malt (biscuit, light toast, nutty, caramel), light hops (woody), and average esters (fruity) with notes of light brown sugar and earth/cellar. Medium-light body, low warmth, medium creaminess and carbonation with a medium-dry finish. This is a nice, easy to drink, session ale.

some spices. Not much hops, lager a bit past due. Thanks Kid Presentable. Decent darker colour, no head to speak of. A bit of aroma. Bitter, even acidic and some malts. Dry metallic and pepper aftertaste.

Pours copper with a tanish head. Smells of honey, grape seed, and toffee. Taste is of alcohol and some nice malt. Better than most of their brews.

Copper colored with aroma of caramel malt, spoice, some hops. Tastes malty, with some finishing hops, toffee, and cinnamon. Not real complex.

A dense off-white foam resides above the crystal clear darksih/reddish amber. Grain forward malty nose where sugary honeyed notes bathe amid bread pudding and tea reminiscent leafy and gently floral hops. A very simple ale, while it remains drinkable, its name and description hinted at something more substantial. Grainy finish with more hop bite than I anticipated and a misplaced malted milk undertone. Forgettable enough not to warrant a second purchase.

Bottle. Pours an amber body with a an off white head. Big malty caramel body with a note of honey scotch and spices. Big bitter hop note finish thin and slightly sour. Eh not for me.