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Otter Creek Spring Ale German-Style Kolsch


 Percentile 
32
overall
Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Kölsch

Middlebury, Vermont USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
512.88/5.02.86/5.0Spring-47.2Kölsch/Altbier
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Commercial Description:
Spring Ale Special Release is a German-style Kölsch: a bright golden ale originating in Cologne. Craft brewed with 2-row malt and malted wheat, and hopped with Tettnang and Liberty hops, this beer is crisp and refreshing with a dry finish.
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 kmweaver (2396), Sebastopol, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/510/20
Apr 5, 2008  
12oz bottle, courtesy of acrdz. Thanks, Mike! Pours a medium yellow color; thin white head that quickly disappears. Light cereal, sugar, and even a hint of butter in the aroma; some honey and water. Light mouthfeel: syrupy honey and sugar at the front of things; bland cereal and bread and not much else. Not a very good kolsch. Quick finish, showing cereal, toasty dry grains, and lingering sugar.


 mj (4971), Colorado, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/103/59/20
Apr 5, 2008  
12oz bottle. Sour wheat and pasty old milk in the nose. A mix of crisp and frothy up front turning quickly to pasty, sour old milk and wheat germ. Really, really terrible, to be honest. I do not like drinking this.


 dlovell2 (136), Columbia, Maryland, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/514/20
Apr 3, 2008  
Golden color with white head. Citrus aroma. Very crisp beer. Light Caramel malt taste followed by a light citrus hop taste. This beer was just ok.


 jason (1620), Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 3, 2008  
Draft. Pale golden body with thin head. Aroma is light citrus, spring air. Flavor is light citrus hops, crisp with a light dry malty flavor. Refreshing.


 nuplastikk (1159), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/105/516/20
Mar 26, 2008  
12oz bottle. Clear yellow-gold color. Sweet, fresh aroma. This beer is a really nice, straight-forward, low alcohol beer...pretty much sentencing it to low ratings on Ratebeer. I think this is an injustice, as this beer is pretty good. Fruity, sweet finish. Crisp hop balance. I wouldn’t say it completely captures a true Koln Kolsch, but it is a really nice beer..


Peregrinari (53), Washington, Washington DC, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/511/20
Mar 25, 2008  
Golden in color with a nice puffy head. Smell is malt and yeast with some sourness and hops. Flavor is somewhat malty with fairly strong hops and bread. Finish is pleasant with only a touch of drying and some lingering citrus. Overall, not a bad beer. I would drink it again.


 zach8270 (2051), Henrietta, New York, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/510/20
Mar 23, 2008  
(bottle - 12 oz) Clear golden pour with a fizzy white head. Lots of carbonation. Aroma is very earthy. Reminds me of a farm. Some bitter hops and a very light malt touch. Lots of grass. Flavor is bitter and cloying at the start with a very sour metallic middle that disappears quickly and leaves a dry aftertaste.


 jimhilt (1663), Bow, New Hampshire, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Mar 22, 2008  
Pours a three-finger white head that fades quickly leaving some lace. Clear amber color. Barnyard nose. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Flavor is mild, inoffensive, some malty sweetness, almost a clean finish. $1.50 for a 12oz bottle from Capital Convenience Concord, NH.



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