Pale Ale
Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.42
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A refreshing, golden amber brew, with Cascade hops from the Yakima Valley. Adding Cascades during conditioning captures the rich aroma of the hop, and completes the clean, well-balanced flavor of our American pale ale. Crisp, refreshing and exotically aromatic.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours orange/copper into a shaker. Head quickly recedes with tear lacing. Upfront malt and well-balanced. Dry, bitter resin finish.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2007
at 17:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
A pretty damn good pale ale. Very drinkable and pretty smooth for an pale ale. Not as much alcohol in this one as there are in other pale ales of this calibre(mostly IPAs though), but his certainly does not detract from the nice clean ’Cascade’ hop taste of this one (I am not sure what a Cascade hop is and why it is any different).
Tried
on 05 Nov 2006
at 22:31
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Good standard pale ale. Aroma is sweet citrus, and flavor is about the same. Nice hops.
Tried
on 05 Jul 2006
at 21:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark copper color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is sweet grapefruit and light pine. The flavor is tangy and has fairly strong grapefruit and pine elements. There is a dry malty finish. A solid if fairly basic pale ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2006
at 12:19
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
12oz bottle-pours a white head with gold color. Aroma is hops. Taste is crisp hops. Clean finish, no aftertaste. Light/medium body. Great APA. Dated 10/24/05
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2006
at 21:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pour is a nice orange with no real head. Nice aroma of hops are the first thing you nothing. Flavor is a mix of hops and a certain spice i can’t name but can detect. Very tasty and pleasing to all the sences. Very refreshing and a good example of the style.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2005
at 11:38
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Paid $1.20 for a 12-oz single. Light amber, with a golden tinge... small head. Lovely grapefuity hoppy aroma. Flavor is quite subdues and slightly metallic. With a nice aroma like this beer has, the flavor is awfully lacking. Kinda thin and watery in the mouth too. Not a bad beer overall... it’s inexpensive, so that works to its benefit.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2004
at 00:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
2004 draught @ Barfly in Rochester, NY. Pours a pale whiteish-yellow with some light copper tinges. Small white head. Aroma of tons of floral hops, light pale malt. Flavor is hoppy, but not hugely bitter, with a smattering of lightly sweet malt to round things out. As it warms, more honey/caramel tones appear, and the hops gain some citrus. The body, which was a solid medium, with very lively carbonation was perhaps the best part; it didnt die a watery death. Flavor seems pretty average, at least pretty fresh as well.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2004
at 10:19
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Dark golden brown in colour, with a nice almost white head. The smell of a strong ale is present, with some faint hoppiness. Tastes as if it has absolutely no carbonation, and the taste is very very mild. Goes down like water and the extent of the flavour is just about all in the smell. Too bad it doesn't taste as good as it smells!
Tried
on 03 Feb 2003
at 18:15
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Amber coloured with very little head. Light grapefruit aroma. Clean crystal malt character. Good, juicy hop presence throughout well into the balanced finsih. Lingering bitterness, but not overly so. An enjoyable APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2002
at 11:33