Former Trapp Brewers to Launch Lost Nation Brewing in Morrisville

When they were brewing at Stowe’s Trapp Family Lodge, head brewer Allen Van Anda and his assistant, Jamie Griffith, mastered the delicacies of producing Austrian-style lager, that brewery’s specialty.

Van Anda left the brewery last spring, Griffith a few months later. Now, both are resurfacing a few miles north, in Morrisville, and will open their own venture, Lost Nation Brewing, later this spring.

For the last few months, Van Anda and Griffith have been transforming the former Rock Art Brewery space at 254 Wilkins St. into a nimble, 6000-barrel brewery and tasting room — though they’re still awaiting some major equipment.

“Our tanks are on a train in the middle of Canada right now,” says Van Anda. He has his fingers crossed that by the end of the month, he and his partner will be producing “honest, good-drinking, session beer.”