Wolavers Pale Ale

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

Extremely heavy carbonation and foam, light golden color with mild haze. Aroma is outstanding a mild peppery spice but smooth and mellow with toasted biscuity malt. Lightly spiced and toasty again on the palate but not too much weight or body. Hop bitterness creeps in at the back but not much of a crisp bite. Rounds out with a little malt sweetness forming in the aftertaste, but overall I wasn’t too impressed.

Bottle, "Bottled on 10/17/05, Lot #1785" If first impressions mean anything, this is a good one, since when I twist the top, I immediately get a happy, beery and hoppy smell. Pours a clean copper brown; surprised to find no floaties (if it’s not pasteurized, it must be heavily fined or filtered), in fact, it’s very clean with just a few streams of bubbles in the glass, and a thin ale head at the top. Malts are pretty crisp, kind of in the range of a Vienna, with a bit of caramel roast and the idea of cherries. The hop choices give it more of a German character than the usual Centennial/Cascade mix of most APAs, but there is a very good dose of Hallertauer in here. A little lace on the glass. Finishes very clean, no conditioning yeast in the bottle. A good "medium" beer, but in the end, perhaps a bit forgettable. It’s a gotta be hard to stand out in the same category as Alpha King. Found the Wolavers at the Wild Oats store in Westmont, IL.

pours with a good head and dope lacing .. wait until you see him hit! ... pours a golden tan colour, has a very slight haze ... has a strange flavour, a kinda bracing bitterness at first then a few seconds later a mild sweetness, at tad stale and cardboard-ish but drinkable.. ok stuff, some simple flavours .. organic? damned hippies .. ’our lives are in danger you beatnik’

This is a very good APA. Aroma was a tad on the weak side. All hops there. Pour was a nice medium gold with a pillowy one finger white head. Taste was nice and strong. Heavy in the malt. Strong caramel malt presence with a huge bitter hoppy aftertaste. Nice thick and carbonated mouthfeel. A stronger aroma would have been this closer to the 4s. Very nice.

Pour is a cloudy orange with a white head. Aroma is hops. Flavor is a a very malty pale ale. So malty i can’t really get any hops. My advice, cut down on a bit of malt and increase the hops. This one needs some work.

Pours a nice orangish color. Aroma is floral hops, some caramel, and a hint of vegtables. Flavor of a classic pale, nice hop flavor.

Pours a nice amber with small white head and some lacing. Musky, earthy hops, some malt and some bitter hop and alcohol in the nose. More malt in the flavor, along with floral and bitter hops in the finish. Fairly malty body, earthy palate and a dry, bitter finish. Not the greatest pale, but can't complain.

Bottle - another one thanks to slob! Pours clear medium amber with a large off-white head that leaves nice lacing as it diminishes. Aroma is sweet ’dusty’ malts, hint of lemon, earthy floral hops. Flavor is sweet initially, a bit of honey then lots of floral and citrus hoppiness and an astringent earthy finish. Light to medium body and easy carbonation. Not bad, but has a particular dusty-metallic taste that I’ve come to associate with organic brews. Hmmm...