Winter Red Ale
Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.44
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Winter Red Ale has the traditional characteristics of a red ale with the addition of an ample amount of hops to create subtle bitterness and medium aroma. A perfect ale for a bitter Winter evening.
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6/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:49
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear copper color with a small white head. A light biscuit nose. Some caramel and light hops in the flavor, medium bitterness, overall big sweet earthy caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2013
at 21:43
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
The appearance was a nice dark amber with a slight reddish hue. The half inch white head slowly dissipated into the body with some spider web lacing here and there. The smell is sweet with a touch of caramel malts. The taste is sweet and bitter in different aspects melding the caramel malts with the hops, pretty good. It feels great on the palate, good balance in the mouth. I’d say this is very drinkable. Overall, this is a pretty good beer.
Tried
on 08 Jan 2013
at 08:53
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 12/23/12, Rating #666 of 2012
Aroma: The nose is earthy, some toasted malts, light fruit, and some gherbal and pine notes
Appearance: It pours a mahogany color, mostly clear, with a small beige head, and some sticky lace
Flavor: It tastes a little sweet, with toasty malts, and a little bitter, leaning herbal over earthy hop-wise
Palate: This one has a medium body, it gets a hint watery, but it feels clean and smooth, with a short finish
Overall Impression: I'm slowly inching my way toward 100 Amber ratings, 6 more to go. As for the beer, this one was fairly run of the mill. The nose had some promise that the taste didn't quite live up to. Still though, this is a nice looking beer, with some decent component and a solid enough mouthfeel, so it's certainly not a complete loss.
Aroma: The nose is earthy, some toasted malts, light fruit, and some gherbal and pine notes
Appearance: It pours a mahogany color, mostly clear, with a small beige head, and some sticky lace
Flavor: It tastes a little sweet, with toasty malts, and a little bitter, leaning herbal over earthy hop-wise
Palate: This one has a medium body, it gets a hint watery, but it feels clean and smooth, with a short finish
Overall Impression: I'm slowly inching my way toward 100 Amber ratings, 6 more to go. As for the beer, this one was fairly run of the mill. The nose had some promise that the taste didn't quite live up to. Still though, this is a nice looking beer, with some decent component and a solid enough mouthfeel, so it's certainly not a complete loss.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2012
at 11:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz ruby amber filtered color. Frothy off-white head. Medium bodied, moderately hopped Amber, a slight touch of cherry vanilla in the finish. Certainly malt centered, very mild and sessionable. Not bad, sort of a run-of-the-mill beer in general though.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2012
at 21:56
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Half Time. Pours quite ruddy with a beige smear. Aroma is mild roast caramel. Near med body. Flavor is quite sweet in the beginning - there’s a hint of grapefruit rind, and there’s enough bitter to balance, but... There’s also a suggestion of chocolate I seem to imagine in "red" ales. For me this is neither here nor there. I find it a bit muddled.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2012
at 16:50
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Color is brownish orange. Smell is a little malty. Oh, first taste is quite alky. Bitter medicine and strongish. A little too much for this lager lover. Subtle is not the hops, almost comes across like a mild old ipa.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2012
at 14:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Amber with a white head. Malty, light fruity citrus hops, but mostly not citrus. Medium bodied. Sweet caramel malts, light pine and citrus hops, and a bit of bread. Too many of these winter ales are sub-five percent which makes little sense to me.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2012
at 18:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Otter Creek Brewery: Pours a really red color with an off-white head. Aroma of caramel malts and piny hops. Taste is much the same. The catch is that this is actually good. The correct balance is stricken and an amber ale soars away from the shores of mediocrity. Indeed, this is a pretty excellent session, with enough flavor and sessionability to satisfy most.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2011
at 15:52
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 8
Had at my friends house for dinner. Tastes of cherry, caramel, dough, grass, and slightly herbal. A bit thin on palate but overall tasty
Tried
on 24 Dec 2011
at 14:13