Pack The Essentials
New Trail's Essential Beers are produced every week so you can enjoy them fresh year-round.
Canned or Kegged, The Essentials Are Available All Day, Everyday.
The first beer ever made at New Trail was our Trail Ale. An Amber Ale brewed with many specialty malts and Pennsylvania wildflower honey for a layering of caramel, toffee and sweet honey characteristics.
White Ale is a traditional Belgian-style, brewed with orange peel and coriander for a delicate complexity. We knew this one would be a crowd pleaser.
Lazy River Pils is a favorite in our homes, coolers, and hiking packs. This American Pilsner brought home the Gold Medal from the Great American Beer Festival in 2019! Hopped delicately with Citra and German tettnang for bright citrus and noble floral notes. The perfect Pils when having a few.
S.O.B. Hill is named in honor of The Hyner View Trail Challenge. We've been sponsoring this 50 kilometer trail race since we opened, and the course culminates with the final rise - S.O.B. Hill. This American IPA is clear, floral, fruity and slightly bitter.
Broken Heels Hazy IPA is our most popular beer. Named after one of our founders broke both of his heels right before our brewery construction began. Not to worry though, he directed the whole project from his wheelchair and is now back up on his feet. This Hazy IPA is hopped intrepidly with hand-selected Citra, Mosaic, and Ekuanot leading to High Aromatics of luminous Citrus, rich Conifer, and refreshing Tropicals. This beer packs a full mouthfeel with low bitterness that is soft on the palette.
Double Broken Heels takes everything we love about Broken Heels and cranks it up to 9.2%. Big mouthfeel, huge citrus and rich tropicals.
Broken Heels
Double Broken Heels
Replenish IPA
New Trail White
Lazy River Pils
Trail Ale
Gear Head
The New Trail Brewing Process
Inspiration
We are inspired by the activities, memories, and beauty of Greater North Central PA. Our beers are thoughtfully crafted to match our favorite locations and adventurous lifestyles.
Sourcing
We begin the process with collecting the most choice ingredients. We hand-select our hops annually for the best aromas. Our grains are grown and roasted by some of the oldest and greatest maltsters in the world. Our yeast is selected and maintained from some of the most reputable labs in the world and treated to serve our purpose here for the perfect balance of fermentation characteristics. And our water is from right here in limestone-rich Northern Pennsylvania.
Brewing
Our Brewing Team brings together the best ingredients in the world using the highest quality equipment from US manufacturers. They mill and steep the malts to extract wort - the sugars, enzymes, and minerals needed to allow our house yeast to ferment properly. Wort is bittered and flavored with a mixture of our hand selected hops to create the distinct and unique flavors found in our beers.
Fermentation
This is where our house yeast goes to work. Yeast eats sugars to produce alcohol and carbon dioxide, as well as flavors unique to the yeast strain. The closely monitored process takes anywhere from two weeks to a month until the desired alcohol and residual sugar levels are reached. When making IPAs, after it has finished fermenting we dry hop with heaps of our hand-selected hop varieties to help increase the beautiful aromatics we aim for in our IPAs.
Additional carbonation is added, and the brewing process is complete.
Packaging
We take time and care to package these beers into a mix of cans and kegs for our many retail partners to sell across the state of Pennsylvania. We give this process the dedication it deserves to ensure that you have the best possible experience when enjoying our ales and lagers.
Distribution
All of our beers are shipped expediently to our wholesale partners, sometimes even on the same day as packaging! They care for the beer until it reaches a retail location near you.
Enjoyment
What better way to enjoy your favorite New Trail beer than by choosing to explore a new trail?
