Otter Creek Russian Imperial Stout

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

the best surpassed Stone RIS mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured thick, black and oily with a huge dark brown head that lingers. The aroma was rich sweet chocolate, dry toasty malt, light coffee and toffee with a faint undercurrent of floral hops.The flavor was sweet chocolate, ripe fruits, port wine, cocoa powder and toffee with a bitter floral hop presence in the middle. The finish was long with port wine, cocoa and fruity. The mouthfeel is thick, smooth and silky. The beer is so slick it coats the glass long after it is gone and the flavor linger enticingly. Fabulous!

What an excellent surprise! Pours dark brown with a nice tan head. Smells of dark fruit, coffee, some bitter touches. Tastes of layered velvety malt, dark chocolate, coffee, some bitter hints, molasses, dark fruit. Dangerously drinkable and decadent with no alcohol burn. Excellent!

Black with a thick tan head. There is a lot going on here, flavor and aroma-wise. Aroma is malt, chocolate, grapes. Flavor is Chocolate, and espresso. There is a sweet malt flavor that dominates at first, but as you drink it, the malt flavor fades into the background. I love me an imperial stout, and I can’t find anything to hate about this one.

Bottle from dogfish120love, thanks! Holy crap this is a beautiful beer. Black with a great creamy brown head. Aroma is wonderful. Molasses, smooth roasted malt, chocolate, purnes and hints of a caramel frappuchino. Flavor is rich and full wtih an amazing body. Lots of chocolate, plums, molasses, coffee, and the roasted element in this beer is very mellow and melds amazingly well with the hops. This is underrated IMO. Wow.

Sampled at the stout tasting at Blacklick Wine & Spirits on 10/1/09. Black pour with a medium tan head. Nose of chocolate, roasted malt, some alcohol and smoke. Chocolate flavor up front with vanilla, a hint of booze and a roasty coffee finish. Between this and the IIPA, I’m sold on their big bottle imperial series.

Bottle from Craft Ale House. Pours onyx with 2-finger tan head and solid lacing. Nose is oaky dark patent malt, berries, espresso, figs, cacao, molasses, spirits. Honestly, this aroma is at LEAST an 8, people! Tastes dark malty, bone dry, with coffee, hops, cacao, fig, black raspberry, and spirity oaky bourbon. Stays bone dry throughout, with a hefty, complex palate. I guess I’d characterize this one as Guinness on steroids, without the cascade. I’m with Cletus on this one, and cheapdark sucks. This one was marginally better than the Iron Hill bourbon impy I had the other night , and keep in mind that I rated the Iron Hill non bourbon impy stouts as one of my perfecto robustos. This is one of the few beers that I expected nothing from, yet it stood up, made me take notice, then made me its bitch. Well done, Stubby!!!!!

22oz bottle. Poured a dark black color with a larer sized brown head. Some lacing left on the glass. Aromas of roastiness, coffee, dark fruits, and lighter caramel. Tastes of roastiness, coffee, chocolate, dark fruits, and molasses. Light alcohol but not giving away the 10%. This one was a nice surprise!