Bottle. Slightly dark orange/yellow color. It’s hard to mess up an APA. This beer was decent, but nothing spectacular. I’d have to admit that I had other beverages throughout the evening so my experience could have been a little corrupted.

Bottle. Pour looks a lot like a ginger ale at first, maybe a little more orange, though. Aromas are sweet, like caramel apples, but as it warms the apple juice smells fade and are replaced by some faint notes of citrus hops. Caramel dominates the flavor, but it ends on a nice little hops bitterness that works well. It is not going to blow your socks off or win any creativity awards, but it is a very solid beer.

Tea and yeast aroma. Golden color, thin orangish head. Orange peel taste with faint traces of yeast. Grassy finish. Rather simple and at times tastes more like hop flavored seltzer than beer.

Bright light amber colour. Lightly toasty flavour - it’s organic, after all. Thin body. Hints of crackerlike malt, bland hops. Serviceable beverage but very typical of the blandness evidenced in much of the body of organic beer.

Bottle: Pours a light amber / light orange color with a small offwhite head. Aroma is somewhat muted blend of malts and hops, taste is a crisp hops with a bit of citrus and a smooth maltiness. One of the better organic IPA’s that I have sampled to date.

Bottled on 7/6/05 and consumed on 8/4/06.
Glowing, canteloupe-copper with some auburn highlights and a sparse white head that recedes immediately to a ring and leaves a slight trace of lacing. Medium-sized bubbles still rise steadily all throughout the liquid.
Wow, this is some oxidized beer. The nose basically smells of the harrington barley, bit of toffee and caramel (very dry) and then the rest is heavy oxidation (madeira). No hop notes at this point. No alcohol detected.
Oxidation is quite prevalent in the flavor as well, but the lower carbonation levels by now (this is forced carbonation) allow a bit of a creamy-sweet caramel malt to camp on the palate. Some hop bitterness provides a lightly dry, spiciness towards the finish, but the oxidation and dry caramel are the main show. Some paper and nuttiness trail on the finish. Light acidity/astringency and some sour fruits emerge as well.

The way I see it, I’ve got no problem putting a review of this beer at 13 months old. The beer sat in Luke’s Liquors in Rockland, MA, on the shelf, but the store is cool and dry and 13 months for a 5.8abv beer isnt exactly a long time. No, rather it’s Otter Creek’s dedication to heavily filtering all of their regular beers (and most of their specialties too). If this had sat on some yeast, it would be perfectly fine. Because everyone knows that you can’t expect your beer to be fridged everywhere it’s sold. So do the right thing and quit skimping on the quality of your beer.

12oz bottle-pours a creamy light tan head with amber color. Aroma is malty, secondary hops. Taste is malty, creamy, caramel-but not sweet. Good hops, transitions to a flat taste at finish.

Orange in color with a thin white head. Light floral hops aroma. Mildly sweet flavor with some flowery taste.

Bottle, "Bottled on 10/17/05, Lot #1785" If first impressions mean anything, this is a good one, since when I twist the top, I immediately get a happy, beery and hoppy smell. Pours a clean copper brown; surprised to find no floaties (if it’s not pasteurized, it must be heavily fined or filtered), in fact, it’s very clean with just a few streams of bubbles in the glass, and a thin ale head at the top. Malts are pretty crisp, kind of in the range of a Vienna, with a bit of caramel roast and the idea of cherries. The hop choices give it more of a German character than the usual Centennial/Cascade mix of most APAs, but there is a very good dose of Hallertauer in here. A little lace on the glass. Finishes very clean, no conditioning yeast in the bottle. A good "medium" beer, but in the end, perhaps a bit forgettable. It’s a gotta be hard to stand out in the same category as Alpha King. Found the Wolavers at the Wild Oats store in Westmont, IL.