Otter Creek Spring Ale German-Style Kolsch

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Kölsch
Middlebury, Vermont USA

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..

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. The bottle has a born on date of 2-5-09 and it was sampled on 6-3-09. Appearance: The body has a light golden color with good clarity and some visible carbonation. On top sits a small bright white head that fades quickly, down to just a thin ring of slick lace. Smell: Its aroma is clean and light. There are some light pale malt notes with some modest clean hope notes. Taste/Mouth: The flavor starts with a light to medium body, crisp pale malts with maybe just a hint of fruit notes and mellow hops in prefect balance. The carbonation is soft yet active giving it a fun lively texture with a quick, crisp and dry finish. Notes: The light crisp and fairly clean character makes this a nice average tasting summer drink.

Pours pale straw color with a large white head. Smells of grapes, some perfume, dry malt. Tastes floral and dry with some light malt presence on the finish.

Bottle ( 12oz ). Slightly hazy pale gold, smallish fizzy white head. Pleasant fresh grain and clover aroma, a little bit of floral sweetness and dry earthiness. The taste is simpler - slightly sweet grain and some light dry floral/herbal bitterness - simple, no corn; tasty. Appropriately light-bodied, slightly chewy, light carbonation, nice dry slightly earthy grain finish - well done, Otter Creek!

Thanks to Mike for this one. Clear yellow color. Sweet malt and grain aroma. Flavor is bitter and sweet.

12 oz, bottled 1/15/08. Clear orange golden with a one-finger head that settles to a lasting ring. Grain, honey, slight lemongrass and cinnamon on the nose. Roasted corn, light caramel apple, and drying grassy-woody hop flavor are well-balanced. A hint of an earthy, roasted aftertaste appears near the end of the glass. Light-medium body is smooth, slightly tingly, dryish, and refreshing.

Bottle - Clear golden color with a moderate white head. Aroma is sweet, slightly butterscotch, malty and grassy. I have really come to enjoy the simple complexity that Kolsch beers present. Malt body with the sweet flavors of the malted wheat coming through. I prefer my Kolsch a bit crisper, but did enjoy this and would buy it again.

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.