Ottos Arthurs Best Bitter

Brewed by Ottos Pub & Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
State College, Pennsylvania USA

Cask at brewpub. Poured a cloudy dull orange in color with a small tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet malts, fresh hops, some mild citrus fruit and a little bread. Tastes of English hops, bready, sweet but toasted malts, and light citrus fruit. Nice body and mouth feel. A solid bitter.

Cask @ Otto’s. Pours a hazy, slightly pulpy orange color; creamy light-tan head with excellent retention and lacing that coats the glass; a gorgeous pour. Light aroma, showing tea, citrus, and a dry, toasty malt core. Medium mouthfeel: oranges, basic soft fruitiness, and touches of tea; slightly relaxed malt profile and edges, very soft carbonation; toastiness appears mid-palate and continues through the finish; sugar, toasty malts and solid amounts of fruit and lightly tannic tea.

On Cask at Zeno’s Pub - State College. Pours an incredibly clouded orangey tan. Weird color. Rim in off-white. Nice fresh hoppy aroma, crisp and juicy. Glowing. Flavor is of a very fresh hop flavored lightly sweet beer. Good fresh flavors. This tastes like fresh home brew to be honest. Lots of fresh, juicy hop aroma in an English/US hop cone liquor. A bit grassy, a bit citrusy. Malt is very laid down. A snappy faint edge of carbonation brightens the back end. Incredibly drinkable. British esters bounce around the finish, making it more complex. This is a very enjoyable bitter.

On cask at the brewpub on 4/9/07: Pours a transparent copper orange with a thin ring of off-white bubbles. Aroma of lightly sweet and toasty pale malt with a touch of fruity esters. Body starts fairly well balanced and malty sweet with some earthy notes and floral English hops. A decent ESB.

Hand pump draft at the brewery. Very enjoyable bitter which appeared to exhibit the typical mild english bitter style. Very mild, little carbonation, fruity nose. Not a bad choice.

Could be listed as an IPA, with the amount of hops this thing contains. Murky soft orange/brown colored body, nose is sweet and lightly grassy hops, with a nice lemon and grapefruit hop scent. Flavor and palate are spot-on for an IPA, in fact it reminds me somewhat of HOTD Blue Dot batch 1. Lightly coarse on the tongue, biting and sharp, fresh and lively. A wonderful beer.

Hand pump draft. Decent aroma escapes the nose. Appearance is decent, dark amber look with thin head. Flavor is very well balanced with a good selection of bitterness attacking the palate. This is very enjoyable and one that could almost put me at peace. Will defeniately have again. Cheers!

sample at brewpub on beer engine: little aroma, can’t really smell anything. lots of carmel malt flavor-some hop-litte pine. medium body. good example of style