Otter Creek Stovepipe Porter

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

Bottled. Deep ruby in color on the pour. Dry roasted malty aromas. Some coffee. Sweet flavored. Some chocolate and coffee. Finish is a little bitter. Pretty tasty.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small light tan head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is a roasted malt with chocolate and coffee. Decent spotty lacing on the glass. The taste is similar to the aroma with a dry finish. A good porter from Otter Creek.

damn easy to drink... has a nice headring... dark black, like a charcoal chunk like a nerf football in the hall closet .. simple ... no real roast qualities .. i could drink a sixer of this in 30 minutes then eat a whole italian cheese bread by myself, smoke a bowl, the pass out ... "peter, who peter?"

12oz bottle. Black with a light tan head that doesn’t last long. Cocoa and earthy aroma. Some watery chocolate and a lightly bitter finish. Light and thin bodied with medium carbonation. This had good hints of malt flavor with a nice chocolate character, but it just didn’t deliver a balanced package.

It will now take a LOT for me to ever want to buy another Otter Creek beer. Not that this one was as terrible as the supposed dubbel, but just that it was so very lame and lacking in anything that might set it apart from another beer other than poor execution in its creation. If I wasn’t such a cheap ass bastard I might have considered pouring it down the drain and reaching for something better.

Appearance: Pours a clear, dark brown body with a thin, fizzy, off-white head. Smell: Roasted malt aroma smelling of chocolate, coffee, and scorched grains. Taste: Starts with roasty coffee tones which yield to a mild caramel sweetness and taste of baker’s chocolate. Eventually a burnt grain taste quietly sneaks into the taste, like a thieving otter determined to cheat me out of my honestly earned crustaceans. More of a roasty, medium bitterness than anything else. Finishes dry and predictably roasty. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium, somewhat fizzy carbonation. Drinkability: Just a touch too thin and fizzy for my tastes. A fine, respectable mix of flavors that could greatly benefit from a dialed up body and dialed down carbonation. And where the hell is their well-traveled otter mascot at? Wise up, Otter Creek, that lil’ guy really helps push the product.

dark brown with a cola like appearance under a large foamy tan head. mildly roasty aroma with some coffee notes. a light bodied porter with a fairly creamy palate. dry roasted barley flavors with touches of coffee. good and average.

bottle, black pour that had a strong head, flavor is toasty but with an odd sourness, dont think this this is right based on other otters I have had