Otter Creek Brewing Vermont Lager

Vermont Lager

 

Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Pilsener Regular
Score
6.05
ABV: 5.3% IBU: 45 Ticks: 14
Summertime requires a crisp, refreshing brew to beat the heat. If you can’t be soaking up the lakeside sun or cannonballing into your favorite swimming hole, then pop the top on our Vermont Lager and enjoy the next best thing. Our Green Mountain homage to the classic European-style lager, we used German Pilsen malt and, in true Vermont fashion, a whole lot of Noble hops to give off a big hop aroma that makes this summer seasonal a real head-turner.
 

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Clear fizzy yellow from bottle. Grainy pilsnery body. Light malt sweets. OK nothing amazing.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:08



4.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

From a bottle slightly hazy pale lager, almost clear. Has a decent recognizable lager aroma. Taste on the other hand is big old country pilsner sharpness. Yes, little kick in there. Unexpected considering, this was labeled as a friendly lager, and it smelled like one too. Good solid pilsner fer sure. Pretty close to the old german country.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Feb 2015 at 16:53


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home in CT - picked up in VT. Pours crystal clear yellow with a foamy white head. Clean cereal on the nose with hints of corn, grass and lemon rind. Light-medium sweet flavor with biscuity malts, further cereal, some bitter hay and grass, faint lemon zest, crackers. Light bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with nice balance, further crackers and biscuits, slight dry and grassy bitterness. Very drinkable lager,

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2014 at 21:31


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pale muted orange. Creamy white head. Light lavender sweet honey and corn nose. Creamy mouthfeel. Bitter orange peel, sweet pie crust and astringent bitter finish. I still like it quite a bit. A less juicy humulus lager

Tried on 28 Jun 2014 at 21:36


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Light barley malt and herbal quinine aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Lightly sweet barley malt and mildly bitter herbal flavor. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2014 at 16:36


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. Hazy pale yellow color, fluffy white head, spider web lacing. Aroma of rising sourdough bread, white pepper, straw. Taste is peppery bitter lemon and straw. Nice.

Tried from Draft on 18 Sep 2013 at 13:40


3.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

4oz sample at RFD DC. Pours a clear gold with some soapy, white head. Those are the nicest words that can be used to describe this swill. Nose of skunk and garbage. Flavor is the same, some wet, clumpy yard grass too. Cardboard. Trash. Cloying finish. Catastrophe.

Tried from Can on 11 Sep 2013 at 07:48


4.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Had this many years ago at the brewery during a lapse in rating, so it’s cool to see it again. 12 ounce bottle from Beer Run. Pours a clear golden color with a large white head. Decent head retention. Strong skunk and not much else from the brown bottle. Maybe some pale malts. I notice the best by date is back in April, which is funny since this has been on sale here for only about a week. The taste is pale malts, slightly buttery, and grassy hops. Thin bodied, lingering bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2013 at 18:36


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

So basically, this beer does not look like much. It pours a pretty boring color, with a rather mediocre head. Then the aroma ain’t much either. But the taste, I thought was rather good. Yeasty all up the front, with a few hoppy bites along the way. Overall, it is really damn refreshing after skiing for a while. Frankly, I think the 19th percentile rating is a severe under-rating (premium lager is of course not the best style out there, but this is one of the style’s better points).

Tried on 26 Dec 2009 at 19:24