Long Trail Hit the Trail Ale

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

Serve in Dimpled mug

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A decent, slightly above average brown ale. Not worth the bartender's buildup, but I did manage to find the bottom of the glass. You definitely smell and taste the sweetness which can be slightly offputting, but once you get around that, you have a drinkable brown ale. Need to put an APB out for the hops.

Light copper with a lasting light beige head of mixed size bubbles. Sweet malty, lightly toasty, with a hint of roast malt; very faint hop aroma and a light diacetyl. Malty sweet from start into the finish and very well balanced. Although there is a very light hop flavor in the aftertaste, but actually finishes a little on the dry side. Caramel and light roast flavor round out mid palate and has very little fruitiness; overall pretty clean. Lighter bodied but not watery, smooth mouthfeel with appropriately subdued carbonation. Very smooth and drinkable. Nice version of an English brown making this a very fine session ale.

Going back through my notes this was more of a malty pale ale than a brown. I wish I could remember it better but mabe that says something about the beer.

This one is pretty boring, especially for a Brown Ale. The color is reddish-brown, but on the clear side. The flavor is indeed mild, but I wouldn't waste my time trying to track this one down again. Stick to Newcastle if mild browns are what you crave.

Golden orange colour(should be darker for this style). Thinnish palate, malt balanced. Sweet chocolate flavour. OK, but it is not very robust, nor complex.

I would call this Brown Ale Light. Clear brown body, palate is medium but sometimes watery. Sweet nutty malts that finish sour. More hops than expected. This was a good one to drink with grilled turkey sausage.

Very bland. I would never have guessed it was a brown ale. Completely non-descript. Seems like it's made for someone who wants to 'think' they're drinking a really good micro, but normally drinks crap. Non-offensive, but also horribly non-descript.

Has a dark amber color with some carbonation and light malt smell. Taste is somewhat watery malt and an bitter finish. Overall not to goood of a beer due to the watery flavor odd bitter finish.

Color is a dirty cloud of brownish orange hue with a one finger high head of thinnish bone white froth that fades to a fine skim always present and leaves whispy strings and sheets of lace. Smell is a barely there slight sweet malt, a bit musty, nearly undetectable. Taste is a bit empty in front of very thin malts and goes no where until some uneven hoppy bitterness thats a tad harsh hits towards the end. Its not watery, it just doesn't offer much flavor really. Feel isn't bad actually, seems to favor a close mediumness, the only thing is its short lived. A very plain and ordinary tastin' beer IMO.

This is a very interesting beer. Not a typical brown ale. Fairly rich flavor without being heavy with a nice touch of sour bitterness. Sweet finish. I found this ale to be very tasty and am surprised at the rather cool reception it has received.