Long Trail Hibernator

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

From a 12 oz. bottle into a standard pint glass. Aroma is sweet and malty with definite hop scents. Color is medium amber. Forms a moderate light colored head that dissipates fairly quickly. Flavor is malty balanced nicely with hops. The flavor lingers on the palate and there is a fair amount of carbination. Very drinkable. A good beer I would definitely purchase again.

Pours out a clear dark copper color with not much of a head. Aroma is sweet and of caramel and some honey. Taste is very sweet with some notes of some malt and a bit of honey and caramel here and there, rather watery mouthfeel. Overall I don’t really like this style, but I guess it wasn’t that bad.

A nice, smooth easy drinking beer. Typically a stout/porter guy I generally don’t like lighter beers but dabble in the occasional doppelbock. This poured with really nice mahogany color and a big foamy head that stayed with it to the bottom. It had a deep flavor that was a perfect mix of malts and just the right amount of hoppiness. Flavor morphed nicely from start to finish with notes of caramel, vanilla, malt and went down very easy. I liked the fact that it didn’t have too much carbonation. A very good beer...

Smells sweet like honey and caramel. The scent is somewhat airy though. As I sipped it I picked up a burnt aroma as well. It was a standard brown with a white head. The flavor is strong with an array of many different things. I picked up light hops, complex malts, and a strong honey taste.

(Bottled on 11/28/05) Medium-dark amber body, biscuit head. Aroma of caramel and malt. Some lacing. Mouthfeel pretty thin, kind of sharp. Tastes weakly of malt, little else. Pretty bland and watery really.

Nice and smooth session beer. Honey really comes out, and the great orange red color is really nice. Hoppy finish is welcomed.

2005 bottle consumed on 1/4/2006. Pours a clear honey-caramel with light strawberry rhubarb tinges and a fair amount of yellow-tinged white head that recedes slowly to a ring, leaving little clumps of lace. Aroma smells of honey fermentation biprodcuts (light sharpness, hints of dry fruits and dry biscuit-like notes). Or maybe I’m just making it all up and it’s just diacetyl. . . .Soft grassy-herbal hops and wildflowers. Vanilla and apple blossoms and just a touch of dry caramel in the back. The flavor is neither rich nor malty, actually quite attenuated, soft again, with more herbs and flower petals. Dry biscuits and brown bread, with more light honey, though just a touch. Dry citrus peels on the finish, with a little touch of gentle sugariness. Lively carbonation, watery texture (though not terribly so). No alcohol or yeast apparency.

A decent ale. Doesn?t taste like a Scottish Ale, but it was very warming and delicious. The honey was evident. Very smooth and delicious.