Otter Creek Brewing Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest

 

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

  Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn
Score
5.88
ABV: 4.5% IBU: 32 Ticks: 36
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6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled. Orangey pour with white head. Caramel malts and nothing special finish. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:05


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours hazy amber with a thin tan head. Aroma of hopped malt, honey. Taste has lightly herbal malt, hopped. Palate has classic Oktoberfest malt. Good.

Tried on 03 Mar 2020 at 01:56


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Can, from City Hops. Pours faintly cloudy dark orange with foamy off-white head, malty aroma with faint grassy hops, high carbonation, mildly bitter malty taste with light caramel, thin body, medium finish. A bit weak in taste.

Tried from Can on 04 Dec 2018 at 17:58


Tried on 13 Oct 2018 at 12:21


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft @ Buffalo Brewfest. Clear golden. Malty, bit bready, some sweetness. Dry, biscuity finish.

Tried from Draft on 15 Aug 2018 at 16:11


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at Otter Creek, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out bready malt, some cereal and light toasted caramel. Flavour is along the same lines, with sweet bready malt, caramel and some cereal notes. Sweet and bready. Solid stuff.

Tried from Draft on 08 Aug 2018 at 01:29


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours a light copper from a bottle. Big caramel and wheat biscuit aroma, similar flavor. Okay beer.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2017 at 21:22


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

Draft at 10 Railroad St in Morrisville, VT. Not retired. Cloudy apple sauce colored pour with no head. High hop content for the style. Disappointing. Maybe it should stay retired.

Tried from Draft on 13 Oct 2017 at 21:49


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Reviewed from notes.
The appearance has a dark copper colored body and left a one finger white foamy head, some nice ringy lacing was left around the sides of the glass. No carbonation was seen rising.
The smell seemed really off, bland and muted caramel tones with some light nuttiness to it.
The taste was basically the same.
The palate was a light to medium with nothing harsh on the tongue, sessionable.
Overall, I’m not that impressed with this beer. I’ve had better Oktoberfests and this isn’t one of them. I won’t seek this out again.

Tried on 22 Mar 2014 at 04:39


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

Draft. Hazy amber color, medium white head. Aroma of lightly toasted caramel. Taste is malt forward, subtle bread dough.

Tried from Draft on 03 Oct 2013 at 17:55