Ottos Ottonator

Brewed by Ottos Pub & Brewery
Style: Doppelbock
State College, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

On tap. Poured a deeper amberish/ brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of nuts, caramel, and just all around malty. Tastes of nuts, brown sugar, caramel, and toffee, and doughy. Lacking left on the galss.

UPDATED: APR 1, 2009 Really has a wonderful smell and taste to it, as if it’s infused with some dried black cherries and cranberries. The toasted wood, rum and sweet molasses and maple are just astounding. Flavorwise it’s disimilar from the aroma, heavy and full on the tongue, a perfect blend of roasted chocolate-like malts and sweet maple and dried dark fruit. Really good, without being insanely different or highly hopped or high gravity. Color is dark brown, almost a bit red as well.

Draft at Otto’s. Deep coppery color with off-white head. Aroma of caramel malt, brown sugar, figs, some spices and hops. Tastes dark malty, with brown sugary notes, some nuts, figs, blackberries, and a rich, smooth finish. The blackberry notes don’t overtake the malt, which remains throughout in full force. Another well done brew from one of my favorite brewers of all time.

Tap. Pours clear brown with a small, fizzy off-white head, short retention with light lacing. Aroma is caramel and nutty malt, dark fruity esters and a clean lager character. Flavor is malt dominant, cinnamon and nutmeg notes, light hops and bitterness with a sweet finish. Medium-full body, medium warmth and carbonation.

Draft at capones. Pours a dark brune body with a tan head. Sweet chocolate and lager notes. Sweet malty musky and a light medicinal cherry flavors. eh.

[Draft @ Capones] Poured a dark brown color with a thin light tan head that left no lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malts, dark fruits, and light cocoa. Taste of more roasted malts, sweet chocolate, molasses, raisins, and light alcohol in the finish.

Draft glass at KClinger’s. Burnt amber with virtually no head. The aroma is of cooked brown sugar. Light up front, this predominately comes across wtih a cooked vegetable alcoholyness. Not a lot of body here and the alcohol takes on a bit of a funk as it warms. (#3280, 1/9/2008)

Sampled on draft at the brewery this beer poured a lovely dark red-caramel color with a medium sized orange-tan head. The aroma was faint tangy and malty. The flavor was tangy, bitter and lightly fruity with notes of caramel, nut, cherry and vanilla. Well done.