Otter Creek Otter Summer Ale

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

12 oz bottle. Pours clear golden yellow with quick white head. The aroma is sweetish grain and bread with a little bit of grassiness. Flavor is, like the nose, sweet grain, with a slight doughy quality. There is some zest in there, and a little bit of floral and grassy hops. The finish is a little bit dull and bready. Ok.

Sort of gamy on the nose, with a slightly metallic taste. Yellow-straw color that finishes cleanly. would probably go better with food than alone. Couldn’t really drink more than one or two. Low for all day drinkablility.

Straw gold, fleeting head. Grainy spicy, lemony, and some grass and earth. Resiny finish. Seems more to a Pilsner than a wheat. Crisp. I’m surprised I like this. Would go well with Buffalo wings.

Pours yellow with a small white head. Aroma is hay, lemon, and wheat. Flavor is more of the same. This is ok. Not really offensive but not inspiring either.

12 oz. Clear, golden honey-colored with a small lasting ring above. Aroma is dry lemongrass and grain. Flavor is bittersweet wheat, woody herb, light citrus oil, resin, slight honey and bubblegum. Light body is dry and mostly smooth with a light tingle. This one gets hoppier and tastier as I get near the bottom of the glass.

yellow hue with some carbonation present. a thin white head that has moderate retention. Aroma is very mild notes of wheat and some generic sweetness. Hops are present but pretty much floral. No real citrus or citrus-like finish. Crisp and refreshing.

From a 12 fl. oz. bottle with a slightly obscured marking that looks like: 29/091 OT#2007. Pours a basic yellow with white fizzy head and a goodly amount of carbonation. Aroma of grass and hops. OK mouthfeel. Flavor is kind of hopped and slightly sour but I don’t notice much in the way of citrus. I have had better summer ales.

Bottle - Poured a yellow amber in color with a medium white head that thinned to a rim around the glass. Aroma was grainy with wheat and malts and slightly sour. Flavor is a bit sweet with some grassy hops mixed in. Not unpleasant, but not a really good example of a wheat/summer ale.