Otter Creek Pale Ale

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: American Pale Ale
Middlebury, Vermont USA

Medium honey body with a medium ring of bubbles and a thin patch film of bubbles. Nose-perfuney, cereal, stale hops. Taste-medium bitter, light hops, crisp, corn flakes, straw, smooth hops, and slightly metallic. Tastes like an IPA with some pale ale notes thrown in as an afetr thought. Not a bad beer, but not one I would go out of my way to find.

A pretty damn good pale ale. Very drinkable and pretty smooth for an pale ale. Not as much alcohol in this one as there are in other pale ales of this calibre(mostly IPAs though), but his certainly does not detract from the nice clean ’Cascade’ hop taste of this one (I am not sure what a Cascade hop is and why it is any different).

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of a Pale Ale. Slight malt and hop presence. A little spice as well. Also smells like ciggarettes an dmud. Poured a hazy copper with a medium, half rocky, half creamy, off-white head that mostly lasted. Sparkling. Good lacing. Flavor of bittering hops and roast with a small hint of caramel malt. Moderatly bitter, but not sweet. QUOTING Muzzlehatch, "As VENOM said, this has some IPA characteristics, namely stronger hoppiness than usual in an American Pale Ale. Very smooth, just a tiny bit of bite at the end, but not a lot on the nose or middle taste." Well balanced. Medium body. Lively carbonation. Short bitter finish. Overall, and average APA with a good bitter bite.

12oz Bottled on 04/18/06. Kinda old, let’s see how she does. The aroma is strong with Cascades, also there’s some sweet malts and caramel malts. There is also a light buttery quality. Nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary, so it doesn’t get a "7." Pours a clear copper orange with a small, fading off-white head. Favors seem a bit blunted, for some reason. The taste goes from moderate bitterness to mild sweetness, finishing on borderling sweet and the aftertaste’s aftertaste comes back with a lingering bitterness. The taste leads the aroma. Smooth mouthfeel, though a little thin. Soft carbonation. Not bad by any means, but nothing to make me remember it tomorrow, either.

Aroma very hoppy, very pleasant, fairly complex. Moderately bitter, some malt flavour. When you actually drink it, the hops aren’t as strong as the initial aroma suggests. I like this beer a lot, but it’s far from perfect; I actually think it’s too sweet. I would prefer it to be a bit more bitter too. And the malt is not complex enough.

Very avg. beer. Light copper color with a film for a head. Very little lacing. Mild hop with a hint of floral especially in the finish. The low ABV doesn’t help any. Easy to drink but again,avg.

12 oz bottle: I liked this APA. Amber color. Quite hoppy indeed, liked all the Cascade, although had a smooth sweet malt character as well. Some metallic in the taste and a weak aroma nocked a little off the overall score, but good.

Pours an amber with a decidedly red influence. This is hoppier than I expected from Otter Creek. Doesn’t have the fresh hop aroma of a dryhopped beer, but they used a good bit of hops here. A bit of diacetyl.