Bonfire
New Trail Brewing Company
- From:
- New Trail Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
Ranked #876 - ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #3,902 - Avg:
- 4.26 | pDev: 6.1%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 11
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 22, 2025
- Added:
- Jul 24, 2019
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
Bonfire is a Hazy Double IPA brewed with Red Wheat and Oats. Hopped generously with Waimea and Citra. Expect bright tropicals complimented with rich citrus fruits. Enjoy this beer with your friends the next time you’re gathered around the fire making memories.
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Rated by JDUBWA412
5/5 rDev +17.4%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +17.4%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
highly recommend this one
Mar 22, 2025
Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania
4.29/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.29/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
16oz can into a pint glass. Canned 3/20/24, so close to 2 months old
Great looking beer. Hazy orange juice body, strong white head, fat rings of lacing. Aroma is pleasantly and lightly fruity. On tasting, well, what a great beer. Smooth, fruity, slightly boozy, hoppy, some orange notes, even a faint dankness. Mouth is nicely full, finish a warm fruitiness with a light bitter touch
Overall, one of the best NT beers I've had. Happy to have the rest of the 4 pack in reserve.
May 18, 2024Great looking beer. Hazy orange juice body, strong white head, fat rings of lacing. Aroma is pleasantly and lightly fruity. On tasting, well, what a great beer. Smooth, fruity, slightly boozy, hoppy, some orange notes, even a faint dankness. Mouth is nicely full, finish a warm fruitiness with a light bitter touch
Overall, one of the best NT beers I've had. Happy to have the rest of the 4 pack in reserve.
Rated by StonewallSipper from Pennsylvania
4.25/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Love the New Trail hazy IPAs with oats, brings out a complex, rich, citrus, pieny taste, plus add the bread taste, love it !
Mar 02, 2023
Reviewed by GeorgianBayPackr from Pennsylvania
4.09/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.09/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Nice haze and creamy mouthfeel. Thick lacing. Slightly sweet upfront fading quickly to resiny pine and dank earthiness. Smooth, high ABV well masked. What I find interesting is that NT brews so many very good IPAs under so many different names, but I'm not sure why- as their overall taste profile is very similar... (and good!)...so why confuse us with so many brews that rarely seem to be available (or findable) the next season when the recipes and profiles are similar? Would like to find more consistency from NTB from year to year
May 27, 2022
Reviewed by jmdrpi from Pennsylvania
4.06/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
on draft, served in a tulip glass
dark yellow orange color, white head. opaque. Tropical fruit hop aroma and flavor. Starts a little sweet, but enough bitterness
May 22, 2022dark yellow orange color, white head. opaque. Tropical fruit hop aroma and flavor. Starts a little sweet, but enough bitterness
Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
3.73/5 rDev -12.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -12.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Canned on: ????
A - Medium to dark opaque orange gold color with very dense, creamy, frothy off white foam. The foam sticks to the sides of the glass like glue.
S - Aroma is on the lighter side with some citrus, peach, and apricot (barely).
T - Peach, apricot, very faint citrus, passion fruit, some light spiciness and ends with a lingering sweet fruitiness and sticky pine that's nicely balanced.
M - Big medium body that's a little thin around the edges and has a silky texture.
O - Not much personality to this one.
Apr 27, 2022A - Medium to dark opaque orange gold color with very dense, creamy, frothy off white foam. The foam sticks to the sides of the glass like glue.
S - Aroma is on the lighter side with some citrus, peach, and apricot (barely).
T - Peach, apricot, very faint citrus, passion fruit, some light spiciness and ends with a lingering sweet fruitiness and sticky pine that's nicely balanced.
M - Big medium body that's a little thin around the edges and has a silky texture.
O - Not much personality to this one.
Reviewed by woemad from Washington
4.3/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
16oz can courtesy of JayO'Rear. No freshness date. That drives me nuts with IPAs. Most of my favorite local brewers don't do it either and it bugs me. Especially when they bring their undated cans on my lawn. Anyway, this isn't being reviewed on Curmudgeon Advocate, so, onwards & upwards.
Poured into a tallboy can glass, this was a milky orange-yellow color and was a bit pulpy looking. I know it's a hazy, but man, it's not a looker at all.
Things improve greatly with the nose, which is all bright, tropical & citrus fruit scents.
I known this isn't a milkshake IPA, but, damn, it sure hints at being one. Lots of oats and wheat went into this, I'm sure. It drinks like a mixed fruit smoothie, with just a bit of pithy, grapefruity bitterness on the back end. No sign of the 9% abv in the taste.
Typical mouthfeel for such a beer. Medium bodied and creamy, with just a little bit of a resiny, oily feel on the tongue.
Although my old school, WCIPA-shaped sense of IPA aesthetics didn't much dig this beer's appearance, I very much enjoyed drinking it. I'd never heard of New Trail before this current NBS BIF and the massive barrage of beers it's caused Jay to shell my porch with, but they are definitely on my radar now.
Apr 18, 2021Poured into a tallboy can glass, this was a milky orange-yellow color and was a bit pulpy looking. I know it's a hazy, but man, it's not a looker at all.
Things improve greatly with the nose, which is all bright, tropical & citrus fruit scents.
I known this isn't a milkshake IPA, but, damn, it sure hints at being one. Lots of oats and wheat went into this, I'm sure. It drinks like a mixed fruit smoothie, with just a bit of pithy, grapefruity bitterness on the back end. No sign of the 9% abv in the taste.
Typical mouthfeel for such a beer. Medium bodied and creamy, with just a little bit of a resiny, oily feel on the tongue.
Although my old school, WCIPA-shaped sense of IPA aesthetics didn't much dig this beer's appearance, I very much enjoyed drinking it. I'd never heard of New Trail before this current NBS BIF and the massive barrage of beers it's caused Jay to shell my porch with, but they are definitely on my radar now.
Reviewed by EMV from Pennsylvania
4.44/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured from a 16 oz can into a Dogfish Head tulip
L: Hazed out medium golden pour with big foamy white head. Outstanding lacing.
S: Dank and fruity. Loads of citrus and tropicals.
T.F: Sweet fruit... pineapple, mango, and tangerine with grapefruit rind and papaya. Loads of tropical juice and citrus. A little spice on the back end. Medium bodied and sticky. Creamy feel... minimal bitterness. More juice medley to finish. Hides its dangerous ABV.
O: An outstanding Hazy Double from New Trail. One of their best yet.
Apr 17, 2021L: Hazed out medium golden pour with big foamy white head. Outstanding lacing.
S: Dank and fruity. Loads of citrus and tropicals.
T.F: Sweet fruit... pineapple, mango, and tangerine with grapefruit rind and papaya. Loads of tropical juice and citrus. A little spice on the back end. Medium bodied and sticky. Creamy feel... minimal bitterness. More juice medley to finish. Hides its dangerous ABV.
O: An outstanding Hazy Double from New Trail. One of their best yet.
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