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Otter Brewery in Honiton, Devon, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.50
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We believe that the key to brewing a great strong beer is to make it well-balanced with a good use of hops. This makes Otter Head easily drinkable and an excellent choice with food. Whilst it has a distinctive barley wine, old ale character it remains light to drink with a malty, fruity and slightly sweet flavour with a long bittersweet aftertaste. The fruit and malt aroma sits well with the beer’s deep, luxurious red/brown colour – still a firm favourite on many bars.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
50cl bottle. Pours a lovely amber with gentle bubbles and a nicely proportioned head some of which remains. The nose has raisins and flour. The taste has flour and toffee this time and chocolate biscuits on the finish. The palate is rich but very tight, then a compact middle section which continues into a long dry finish. Overall, a nice strong bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2012
at 13:32
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Walsall Beer festival. Amber orange pour with a small white head. Fruit and malt in the aroma And flavor with a little alcohol.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2012
at 12:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a thin head. Aroma is sticky caramel, orange squash and alcohol. Taste is sweet, raisin and fig. A little alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2012
at 14:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Inköpt i England och drucken med ölföreningen. En bra ESB med karamellkaraktär som balanseras av en frisk och fruktig humle med bra bett i beskan.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2011
at 13:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Dark golden colour, off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts and fruity. Flavour is caramel malts, fruits, bit of citrus. Medium bodied. Well drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2011
at 08:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
@Hobgoblin, Bath. Golden-brown. Caramelly nose with toffeeish accents. A fairly rich toffeeish brew, accented toward treacle and some gentle roasty-toasty bitterness late. Another good otter.
Tried
on 18 Sep 2010
at 02:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught. Clear coppery brown, good thick white head. Slightly tangy aroma, maybe apples. Creamy body with medium carbonation. Fairly tangy fruity foretaste with finish that is moderately bitter and has a malty marmitey lingering taste. Nice beer.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2009
at 15:31
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle Ale Cellar Darlington. Poured a darkish coppery colour with a very thin head. Aroma and flavour was very malt heavy stifling the hop presence. Sweet and lacking balance with something lurking in the flavour I found quite unappetising but cant quite put my finger on. Finish was dryish with some hop bitterness. Maybe my bottlewas on the turn. Disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2008
at 15:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cloudy amber beer, with a very small, fizzy lace - quite a yeasty and bready aroma, with a lot of caramel, toffee, and nutty character, and a soft underlying earthiness - the flavor starts off with moderate fuggles bitterness and strong herbal, tea-like qualities - this quickly makes way for brown sugar, toffee, and hazelnut - some subtle notes of citrus and fruit pulp - yeasty near the finish - there is a nice earthiness to this one throughout, which lends a nice dimension, and makes the beer stand out - very bready at the end - different and interesting.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2008
at 20:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle - Pours hazy light brown with almost no head and very little carbonation. It has a mild aroma of caramel malt. The flavor is led by toasty toffee malt and has some mild hops. It has a medium body and a light, bitter finish. This beer is pretty average. I really should stop paying the high prices for the many mediocre to average English bitters that seem to be so common now.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2008
at 22:28