Otter Creek Otter Summer Ale

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Wheat Ale
Middlebury, Vermont USA

highly drinkable is an understatement. There isn’t much to this beer to find offensive because there isn’t much to this beer. Light in colour, taste, mouthfeel, body, pretty much everything.

12 oz bottle. Clear golden color with thin white head. Attractive cereal grain nose with a touch of sprucy hops. Crisp and dry. Tastes of cereal grain mostly with some hop bitterness that rounds the beer out nicely.

Bottle. Pours a pale yellow with minimal head. Nose is yeasty, but not very prominent. Overall sense of this beer is that it is thin, bodied and flavored. Not much going on here, even on a ’otter Summer day.

This is not a great wheat beer. The server that suggested it as "the best wheat beer in the place" was wrong, because we were at the Brickskeller in D.C., and there had to have been better ones available. Thin and citrus-y bread flavor to this one. Aroma not great, appearance was decent enough, but not great enough to order it again. Overall a lackluster performance.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with jjpm74, thanks John!) This wheat beer doesn’t taste terrible, but the sweet grain/corn flavor is a bit odd for the style to say the least. Not really picking up much in the way of actual wheat malt flavor, though citrus does play a prominent role in the finish. A mild hops bitterness picks up steam in the finish, lending to a bitter aftertaste that also doesn’t really belong in this style either. Although it doesn’t taste much like a wheat beer, the initial flavor is a bit more pleasant than the finish. The nose is very grainy, and not much else, so this beer smells better to me than it tastes. Light bodied, but not watery, and fairly crisp. Pale straw in color and fairly hazy. The small white head quickly settles to a ring. A barely average tasting beer that is made worse by the long-lasting and unpleasant aftertaste.

Very pale golden with a small white head. Aroma of lemon and a bit of mustiness. Flavor has notes of lemon/citrus, grain and grass with a touch of hop bitterness sneaking in at the end. Has an odd sour tinge. Thin bodied with moderate carbonation.

Thin yellow, decent head. I am not a big fan of wheat beers. A bit of fruit and spine nose. Lightly hopped. Ok, I guess.

Really thin yellow-gold body wth a thin nice head. Nice smell, spicy.Taste is a little dry, but crisp and substantial. Decent summer.