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Otter Creek Spring Ale German-Style Kolsch


 Percentile 
32
overall
A Kölsch brewed by
Otter Creek Brewing

Middlebury, Vermont USA

bottled
common

on tap
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372.85/5.02.84/5.0Spring-49.1 Kölsch/Altbier P  Stats

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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 muzzlehatch (4424), Burlington, Vermont, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Feb 16, 2008  
12 ounce bottle from City Market in Burlington, VT (February 2008) served a little below cellar temperature from a Coors Banquet glass. Pours very clear gold, the head fills half the glass, white and chunky and lacing thickly as it subsides....nose is quite light, almost indistinct, herbal and grassy, some nice touches of biscuity malt, no problems really except that its so vague....body is fairly dry up until the somewhat bitter, spicy finish; noble hops and pils malt character are in evidence, this is certainly an attempt at authenticity, but it’s a bit too thin and watery and yeah, I get a touch of that metallic character that others mention, though the beer sweetens a bit with warmth and more malt presence counterbalances the harshness somewhat....like most of this brewer’s beers, not bad enough to irritate me, but not good enough to try again either.


 acrdz (4148), Pennsylvania, 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.


 DocLock (4047), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/511/20
Mar 11, 2008  
Bottle. Pours chill hazy deep gold with very little head. Nose is grainy pale malt, lemongrassy hops. Tastes of Saazy, lemongrassy hops, with grainy pale malt and some honey and wheaty notes. There’s nothing offensive here, but there’s not really any way for me to give this a higher score, either. I think Barry’s last statement sums up my feelings on this one as well.


 jcwattsrugger (3757), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Jun 14, 2008  
12 oz bottle-pours a thin white head that laces and yellow color. Aroma is light/medium malt-bready, secondary spice/herbal-hops, some yeast. Taste is light/medium malt-bready, spice/herbal-hops, some yeast. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for picking this out.


 Tmoney99 (3429), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/510/20
May 26, 2008  
Bottle at Jungle Jim’s. Poured clear straw color with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Light sweet hoppy aroma. Light body with a watery texture. Medium sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of short duration.




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