Otter Creek Oktoberfest

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Middlebury, Vermont USA

Pleasant hoppy aroma. The first taste is weird as there is little carbonation or other taste on the nose. The hops finish off nicely. This is a weird brew, but I guess this is how they hack it up in Vermont.

Pours translucent orange with minimal carbonation and head. Very malty aroma with notes of fig. Definitely not an overpowering oktoberfest. Finishes sweet and a bit syrupy, but an otherwise light and crisp beer for the style.

Poured amber, quietly still and with virtually no head. The aroma reminds me of apple jelly. Very hoppy, but in an odd way. Almost a tea-based flavor, like unsweetened brewed tea. Odd.

In the bottle. Beer of the Month Club selection- thanks to pman. Pours light amber to dark gold with a poofy off white head. Has a delightful caramel malt nose. Toasted malt flavor at mid palate, but finishes weak and mild. A bit too thin with an odd metallic finish. Presents a nice festive lacing, however.

Bottle cold lager glass. Mostly hop taste too hoppy for an oktoberfest, with too light of body and not enough malt.

Bottle. Orange colored pour. No head. Smell = malt, hops. Taste = malt hops. bland, not exciting, tastes like beer. Pretty sad effort really. I put as much effort into this review as they did making the beer.

A very basic run of the mill brew with very slight notes of caramel and sweet malts. Kind of a drain pour for me.

If anyone is looking for a standard nothing special at all typical example of an oktoberfest/marzen, may I reccomend Otter Creek Oktoberfest. Very much to style, but very much boring.