Long Trail Pollenator

Brewed by Long Trail Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont USA

the label needs an overhaul. the cartoon bear and little bees and gay flowers are better suited to a little girl’s lunchbox. the beer looks as brassy as an eagle on a flagpole, tho the head wasn’t as proud. it was all it could do to manage a loose necklace of end-to-end bubbles once around the glass. moderate aroma like one of those breakfast cereals with toasted grains, nuts and honey, also a sour note that i pressume the composer didn’t intend. i don’t know if it’s old-- i don’t have my secret decoder ring to decipher the freshness date. (i have a peeve with these "best by:..." addendums to the label that are probably meant to be illegible. this one looks like it was rubberstamped by a drunken monkey as it shot by on the conveyor belt). anyway,it’s okay tasting at best-- for the evening’s first beer. grainy, lite vanilla bean flavor, the bitterness is metallic, a hint of sauerkraut juice, not much body. if my trash basket was on fire, i’m not sure if i’d pour this beer on it, or go and fetch some water.

I did not like this. Apparently, there’s honey in here, but it was non present. All I tasted was a sub-par stock ale that wasn’t really done all that well to begin with. The labeling is totally kitschy, too. It’s something my sister would call "cute". Long Trail fails to impress.

Where is the honey? Watery like the rest of Long trails beers, but I this is not as bad as the others i’ve tried. At least this has some body to it, though it is still a weak brew. Ehh!

Weak tasting and I found the honey to be annoying.

Am I drinking a different brew than the rest of you? Do they save the best for out-of-staters? Very average, in my book; honey AROMA is there, but flavor definitely lacking, with palate too hoppy/bitter for what it’s (I think) trying to be. Ya want good VT beer, go with McNeills.

Great brew. Nice butterscotch honey flavor that almost tastes like they melted a sugar daddy into a golden ale. Superb flavor and the overall balance is better at cellar temp. Different but excellent.