Otter Creek Otter Mon

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Foreign Stout
Middlebury, Vermont USA

Bought it for the artwork. Bottle. Pours a brown body with ruby hues, and a moderate tan head. Sweet chocolate malt, sweet unattenuated sugars, light hop bitterness. Not bad.

22oz bottle poured into a Melbourne Bros. glass. Pours black with a medium sized tan head. This is a very two faced beer. In both the flavor and aroma the beer has really good aspects, especially for the style. Aroma has aspects of tobacco, ash, roast, and a syrupy dark sweetness. However, the aroma also ends up a bit fecal, lightly plastic, and almost artificial. Taste is similarly full of rich sticky Jamaican stout flavors but again finishes with metal, and stripped flavors. I can range the scores depending on which aspects I choose to concentrate on. But in general the flavors at the end just seem to ruin all of it. This beer has a lot of potential but it needs some work as of now. Otherwise, average mouthfeel with carbonation.

Bottle courtesy of Tony at Oldsmar Tap House (Tampa, FL). Pours a dark brown to black, thin off-white head, little retention or lacing. Aroma is smoky with notes of alcohol, chocolate, coffee, toffee. Flavor is almost chewy with notes of smoke, coffee, black licorice, cooked veggies, dark chocolate. Generally medium to full body with a slightly bitter finish.

Pours a two finger tan head that fades slowly, leaving a good lace. Almost black, faint mahogany highlights. Good carbonation and heavy bodied. Chocolate nose. Flavor is sweet chocolate and brown sugar. Nice Jamaican stout. 22oz bottle part of 3-pack $12.99 from Manchester Wine and Liquors Manchester, CT

Pours dark brown with amber edges and thin off white head. The aroma is roasty, earthy, muted coffee and faint burnt malts. The taste runs into burnt malts and coffee notes that become somewhat astringent. By midway milder notes of roasted malts and earthiness join in and move the experience to the finish.

Bottle. Pours black with a one finger tan head that leaves good lacing. Aroma of acidic coffee and a touch of roast. Taste is the same as aroma. Medium thin mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness. Not very good.

<b>22 oz. bottle</b> from Premier Gourmet - Pours a dark brown color with a 1/2 finger thick light tan head. Faint lacing. Aroma and flavor is roasted malt, faint hops, and dark esters. Medium body. Smooth finish. A good beer.

courtesy of Tony @ OTH. Pours black, beige head. Aroma / taste, nice caramel malts. Dry and sugary (nice hints of licorice). Dark fruits and spices. Very sweet.