Otter Creek Vermont Lager

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

12/07/2004 bottle, batch 1629, consumed 3/30/2005. Great aroma as I pop the cap. Soft, heathery hops with light tangerine notes, vanilla, honey and just a light trace of corn (not adjuncts, just a byproduct of the malt). Clear, copper-gold body, with a thin white head that recedes to a ring. Flavor is cornmeal, lightly sour yeast, touch of soap and clean mineral water. Not much else going on, though I wanted to like this. The body is ample, though. Medium to medium-light, fluffy. Engaging yet easygoing carbonation. A bit low on the pH with too much sour/acid coming through. I guess I’m getting tougher on lagers though. . .as this stuff really isn’t that bad, IMHO.

Poured goldsih yellow, with a good white head. Floraly aroma with some yeast notes. Crisp, clean, and refreshing. This would make a great summer brew, ball game, hammock, and some of these, fresh cut grass...

thin head but overall, a very impressive lager. nice florally aroma although the same golden color as most lagers but it has a nice hop palate. this beer is very smooth and quite enjoyable. it’s a nice subtle beer that i can enjoy on an evening of relaxing

Appearance: slightly hazy, dull orange/ high yella color, with a fine collar of froth atop. Aroma: sweet, almost corny, light, smooth, soft, vegetal, and slowly discernable hop content. Taste: hops play lightly and nicely on the palate for a time before fading fast, but return with each subsequent sip. Light in body, slightly buttery in the flavor, but overall good in taste, good in drinkability, quite an acquittable lager, indeed.

Pours a golden yellow color with a decent white head. Taste like just about every lager ive had only slightly better. Not something i care to drink again though.

Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma is lightly malty malty and grassy. Taste has notes of grass and grain. Moderate use of hops. Lightly malty and sweet with a hint of lemon. Medium body. Eh.

Pale gold with decent white fully-diminishing head. Mild hops in the aroma and flavour and some light bitterness. An unexciting thisrt-quencher.

Poured a nice golden yellow, with a white foamy head. The first few sips I had a hard time getting past - it tended toward the bitter taste I associated with beers I drank in college or high school. But over time it did develop some complexity of taste, and was a very enjoyable beer which I enjoyed. A definite step up from the big three - more body, more flavor, nicely hopped. Definitely detected some fruit.