Vermont Lager
Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.08
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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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5.9/10
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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
8/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:49
6.5/10
Tried
on 22 Oct 2016
at 10:13
4.6/10
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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
7.2/10
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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
7.3/10
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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
6/10
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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
7.5/10
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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
3.2/10
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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
4.6/10
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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