Otter Creek Stovepipe Porter

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Porter
Middlebury, Vermont USA

This has about everything I’d expect from a decent porter. Nice roasty smell, just enough bitterness in the flavor, and good finish. Not the best I’ve had, but quite good.

Dark brown with copper hue. Small moka head. Roasted malts and hops come out well. Choclates notes with pleasant west coast hops comming out, nutty , and I agree with with the precedent rater, more like a brown ale in taste. Very pleasant and good body.

This brew bottled on Dec 30 of 2003 from batch number 1480 poured a large sized head of frothy fine to large sized light brown colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a good sticky lacing. The body was softly carbonated semi-transparent and dark brown colored. It had a nice caramel malt brown beer aroma. The mouth feel was tingly yet smooth from start to finish. There was a lingering brown malt flavor to its finish. The initial flavors contained notes of caramel and brown malts but was on this thin side for a porter. It was more like a brown beer that a porter.

Bottle on 12-30-03 and Batch #1480. Poured a small sized tan head that was creamy and contained fine-medium sized bubbles. This beer was softly carbonated with a dark brown hue. The aroma consisted of malt, some chocolate, and roasty. The flavor was coffee, sweet and a little acidic. The mouthfeel was smooth and the lacing was fair.

Pours dark with a minimal brown head. Roasted aroma with a hint of hops. Palate is rather light for this type of beer. Taste is also roasted. Stovepipe is the perfect name for this beer. It’s a good one, but I like some other porters better.

Dark brown pour. Aromoa is slightly roasted. The palate was disappointly thin. Flavor profile has hints of chocolate followed by a hop balanced but dominating roasted character. I got this from a "American Micro Brews" 10-pack.

Opaque black/brown color. Slight malt aroma. "Watery" body and not robustness that you would expect from this type of beer. Drinkable, but not one I would choose if I had alternatives.

On tap poured an orange brown with a faint aroma of coffee and caramel. On tasting, it started with some hoppinesss then came in with minimal coffee and caramel which faded into a moderate hoppinesss at the end. Overall it seemed weaker and more watery than a traditional porter with minimal body. I might have to try this again in bottle and see.