This Munich-style dark lager is brewed and fermented with traditional Bavarian ingredients and techniques, creating robust malt notes of caramel and chocolate…
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Hop Profile
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Beer Details
Description
This Munich-style dark lager is brewed and fermented with traditional Bavarian ingredients and techniques, creating robust malt notes of caramel and chocolate with a smooth mouthfeel and crisp finish.Source vontrappbrewing.com
Tasting Notes
This Munich-style dark lager is brewed and fermented with traditional Bavarian ingredients and techniques, creating robust malt notes of caramel and chocolate with a smooth mouthfeel and crisp finish.Source vontrappbrewing.com
Research Notes
Dunkel is a year-round Munich-style dark lager brewed by Von Trapp Brewing in Stowe, Vermont.
This Munich-style dark lager is brewed and fermented with traditional Bavarian ingredients and techniques, creating robust malt notes of caramel and chocolate with a smooth mouthfeel and crisp finish.
This Munich-style dark lager is brewed and fermented with traditional Bavarian ingredients and techniques, creating robust malt notes of caramel and chocolate with a smooth mouthfeel and crisp finish.
The brewery names no specific hop, malt or yeast, saying only that it uses traditional Bavarian ingredients and that the malt gives caramel and chocolate notes.
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Brewing Details
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Style Context
As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Munich-Style Dunkel calls for light brown to brown color, chocolate, bread or biscuit malt flavor, 4.8 to 5.3 percent ABV and 16 to 25 IBU. The published 22 IBU fits; the 5.7% ABV sits above the range.
Awards History
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Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Munich-Style Dunkel
Gold
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Brewery Context
Von Trapp Brewing is in Stowe, VT. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.
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Research Notes
The brewery lineup page lists the beer as Dunkel Dark Lager with ABV, IBU, description and packaging; it has no dedicated per-beer page.
Search results (brewery menus and a review) agreed on 5.7% ABV and 22 IBU; no conflict was found.
No hop, malt or yeast names are published anywhere that was read.
No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Field pass 2026-10-13: Additional hop searches and the brewery's Dunkel sell sheet yielded no named variety; sensory references to floral hops do not identify a cultivar.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery lagers page gives tasting words, 5.7% ABV and 22 IBU; no named hops or malts.