Long Trail Harvest Ale

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

Pours a rich brown. Sweet smelling, nicely balanced. Tasted autumnal and woodsy - almost like wet fallen leaves. Nice job.

Pours deep brown mahogany clear body with large frothy tan head. Light molasses, almost coffee bean aroma mixed with some brown sugar, green grape and malt. Flavor of malted hops, sweet burned caramel, grain and hint of cocoa. Smooth palate and crisp finish.

Enjoyable, easy drinkin dark beer. A beer’s beer. Good local regular times drink a good amount o beer but not drinkin lots of crappy cheap beer kind of thing. (some bottles in the 6 pack tastes worse, more plain & sour than the others)

10.25.05 12oz bottle. Attractive pour, copper-amber with lasting, small beige head of fine bubbles. Aroma is sweet and malty with white toast, caramel candy wrapped in plastic, and ladles of diacetyl. Great, I bought a 6-pack of this and it’s a butter bomb. I try to take it in stride and tell myself it’s an English style ale, that some butter is acceptable. I’m fairly convinced and take a sip. Body is thin, slightly dry, moderately bitter, and diacetyl from middle to back. Lingering butter not only on finish but retronasal. I must be super sensitive to the stuff. I’ve got to say though, as butter bombs go, this is one of the more palateable I’ve tried. Definitely drinkable and balanced once I can get past the butter, this is a passable session brew.

Pours a translucent orange amber with an average size off white head. Aroma of hay, malts and maybe some slight pine hop. Flavor is hay, pretzels, slight hop bitterness and some roasty malts. A decent tasting fall beer, nothing too special though.

Great tasting beer for the fall. Nice color, and a good head. Long Trail is a local company here, and I expect they will continue putting out a very good beer.

Beautiful amber color, nice white head, wish it stayed around a bit longer. Lightly bitter (less than some of their others I’ve tried), light body, soft carbonation. It’s a good fall beer to mix in with the marzens.

Bottle: Translucent amber, moderate off-white foamy head, fairly nice lacing, light carbonation.   Looks tasty.   Soft grainy nose, not much else.   Malty start, not terribly thick, at least moreso malty than grainy (better than the nose).   Very minor sweetness.   Body and mouthfeel are average, but its bordering on the thin side.   Fairly clean finish, but most of the flavor has left the building.   Decent beer, just needs to be a bit more flavorful.   Thanks Dan!