Otter Creek Vermont Lager

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Premium Lager
Middlebury, Vermont USA

Dark yellow with fast fading head. Bread dough and malt in the aroma. Sweet tasting palate and neutral finish. Rather boring.

This bottled brew bottled on 1/26/05 batch 1664 poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized mostly diminishing white colored bubbles that left behind an unnoted lacing. The body contained average carbonation, was transparent and yellow orange in color. Its aroma contained notes of malty corn . Its mouth feel is initially tingly with a lingering tingly palate and a aftertaste. Its flavor contained thin weak mildy astringent notes. A below average brew.

Pours a light gold color, small white head that dissappears almost immediately. Nose is light, sweet malt, a bit of caramel. Flavor follows the nose, hops are almost undetectable. Inoffensive is the best way I can describe this.

Another in a string of beers I had that was perfectly good but straighforward. Lacks the firm malt backbone of say a Victory all-malt lager. But, an easy drinker for those times you want a decent beer and can’t find a glass, or something for a crowd.

nothing special as lagers go. very straight forward, nice head, not overly flavorful but not a bud light either.

thanks to firemoose15, i would have thought this was a Helles based upon the sweet caramel and grass aroma, which were mirrored in the taste almost with nothing else. there was a little bit of hoppy bitterness at the very end, but i thought this was a nice beer with a very high drinkability value.

120z Bottle: Ugh. Smells like a greasy Greek-style pizza crust, with a little water, and a faint hint of spice. Smell is so putrid I can barely put the glass to my mouth. Cloudy golden color. Quickly diminishing, small, white head. No lacing. Flavor, now that is a hard one. I guess slightly grassy and bitter. Thin and metalic. Watery. Worst Otter Creek beer I have had; I’d rather drink a Miller Light.

Bottle. Poured like Budweiser ... check that ... Bud Light. Aroma was off. I guess there’s some malts, but I only got a whiff of socks when I lifted this to my mouth. Luckily it didn’t taste like feet. Light flavor, some fruit, some malt and some chalk. Overall, not very good.