Otter Creek Raspberry Brown Winter Ale

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Fruit Beer
Middlebury, Vermont USA

Presentation: It was poured from12oz brown bottle into a pint glass. There is a bottled on date. Appearance: The body has a dark appearance with good clarity and very deep brownish amber color. On top there is a huge light tan head that has great retention. It lasts all the way to the last sip slowly fading down to thin cap along the way. Also it makes for some cool splotchy lacing on the glass. Smell: The aroma has notes raspberries and rich lightly roasted malt. Taste/Mouth Feel: The base of the flavor is a sweet, lightly roasted malt with light buttery, bready and raspberry that adds a little tartness. Hop flavor is very light and understated. It has a solid medium body and its carbonation is light on the tongue with a smooth almost creamy feel. Notes: Overall I thick this is a solid beer.

Enjoyed from a 12oz bottle in a pub glass. The beer pours a medium brown, with a small white head. The nose brings scents of toffee, raspberry, and a bit of chocolate. The palate is essentially almost a perfect cross between raspberries and a sweeter brown ale. Overall, not exactly a "winter classic," but a well-integrated conglomeration.

[2114-20090421] Bottle. Mild evergreen fruity malt and mild plum aroma. Clear, dark amber brown body with a medium-lasting foamy light tan head. Grainy fruity malt flavour has a sweet toastedness and lingering notes of raspberry. Medium body. Pleasant.
(w/ blankboy, garthicus, jerc)

Pours a clear almond colour with a thin, fizzy off-white head that fades to a solid cap. The nose has hints of raspberry jam (though seemingly thin), grassy hops, brown sugar, light milk chocolate and dust. The flavour is a bit artificial. Metallic and herbal hops with a musty chocolate and raspberry syrup mesh of flavours. The finish is peppery and herbal with a metallic cocoa and jam combo overlain. The mouthfeel is thin, nicely carbonated, but chalky.

Shared by Jerc and Mabel with Blankboy and I. Appearance: Golden red, small white head. Aroma, quite grassy, some malt and some hints of nuts. Flavour: Malty and nutty - meh.

Bottle (12oz) shared with garthicus, jerc & mabel -- c/o j&m. Pours a clear deep ruby-orange with an average size diminishing creamy tan head. Aroma of caramel malt, artificial raspberry and light herbal hops. Flavour also has that artificial raspberry thing going on along with caramel malt and mild chocolate -- chalky as well. Average to medium bodied. Just O.K.

THOUGHTS: Not too bad, but it looked and smelled a lot better than it tasted. All raspberry at first then it balanced out a little better, but the raspberry was better than the more bland balance was. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, medium to dark brownish copper with an average to large, off-white head that mostly diminished slowly and left good lacing. The aroma was raspberry, light nuttiness with slight milk chocolate, and light hops. The initial flavor was sweet, acidic and slightly bitter; while the finish was a little sweet, acidic and slightly sour and bitter with and average duration. There was raspberry (both sweet and tart), slight chocolate, toasted and nutty malt, light to moderate hops with bitterness from the raspberry finishing things up. The light to medium body was dry with fizzy carbonation and a moderate astringent and slightly metallic finish.

2009-04-21. Nice brown-red body with a modest beige head. (3+) Raspberry aroma is a bit jammy but also with a touch of raspberry leaf. (6+) Flavour is sweet nondescript malt with artificial (concentrate?) seeming raspberry with a hint of the leafy raspberry character that showed up in the aroma. Average plus palate. Okay. Bottle from Premier Gourmet