Otterbahn
Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Weizenbock Regular|
Score
6.58
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Bitterbill (4330) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From Sep 2007
I got this one in a trade with jwc215. Thanks, Joe!
This pours a clear deep brownish-red with a good 2 finger head of foam that shrinks to a solid layer but lasts for the entire session and it has plenty of sticky lacing.
The smell is malty, roasty, and spicy and has a nice strong presence of chocolate. Very nice nose.
The taste has nice complexity with sweet malt, clove, banana, roasted malt and a touch of dark fruit most noticeable when I swish the beer in my mouth. Wow, it's also quite warming. More sips in and I'm picking up on some good hot chocolate character. The mouthfeel is a bit on the thin side, the carbo is light and the finish is bittersweet from the chocolate. Very tasty. A very nice sipper indeed! Okay, I just started drinking from my second pour and the mouthfeel seems to have redeemed itself..I get a creamier feel to it.
Bottom line: I think this an excellent example of the style and I'd gladly revisit. Thanks again, Joe!
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to blutt59. Pours with a small, off-white head that goes quickly leaving a deep brown body. Aroma of maple, hazlenuts, nutmeg, persimmons, and toffee. Taste is sweet with nuts (Hazlenuts), roasty malts, toffee, alcohol, and vanilla. Water like mouthfeel, mild carbonation.
Hibba (858) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From bottle to glass, looks like a darker brown pepsi...brown sugar head...---aroma---raisin and roasted malt, rich and roasted malt....---flavor---prunes and burnt caramel malts...medium body, the presence of clove (not flavor)...seems to add a bite to the finish....reminds me of a liquid gingersnap cookie...alcohol 8% huh?...can’t tell except in the buzz factor....sediment in glass also
jcwattsrugger (14787) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
22 oz bottle-pours a rich dissipating tan head and dark mahogany color. Aroma is dark malt-cocoa powder, dark fruit, some sharpness. Taste is sweet dark malt-some sharpness-cocoa powder/licorice, oak barrel-whisky like, dark fruit, musty, roasty, secondary/faint hops bite, some alcohol. OK carbonation. First half pint a bit rough to my taste, then mellowed and became more enjoyable.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Roast and chocolate aroma. Dark brown, low head. Chocolate, milk, light licorice, clove and yeast. Anise aftertaste - getting a slightly weird vibe here.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
An unclear brown beer - somewhat murky, with a thin light brown head. The aroma is a weird spicy one combined with notes of cellery. The flavor is sweet malty with a light roasted note. Not good for the style.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured watery black with copper hues from the bottle with a white head. Smells of roasted malt, smoke, sweet and hoppy. Taste the roasted malt right away, with brown sugar and honey notes. The taste is fruity as well as malty. Finish is clean and warm, hinting of the extra alcohol. I tasted this at the brewery and it was amazing, soft and subtle. Out of the bottle it was less exciting but still very good.
beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bomber poured into a glass mug. Color - dark ruby with translucent edges. Cannot see through the beer. Aroma was weak. Just slight butterscotch malt and a wheat presence. Taste is much better, nothing pops out, meaning nothing is easily recognizable but really tasty. Some hop presence, with just a touch of bitterness. Mosty, just tasty malt.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Otterbahn from Otter Creek Brewing 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
2006 bomber shared with SuIIy on 6/8/06. Almost an inch of sediment sits solidly on the bottom of the bottle and boy did I leave it behind. Decanting, a huge beige/off-white head is well-retained. High clarity shows deep garnet-mahogany, with light crimson-auburn. Huge clove phenols are dominating, with dry, toasted, bready malts bringing up the rear, very lean and nearly astringent. Some oiliness and a touch of dry bubblegum, emerging as it warms, seem out of place, as it should be covered by sweet maltiness. Seemingly very highly attenuated. Not much more I can say, hopefully warming helps alleviate this fatiguing clove dominance. Surprisingly, in the flavor, some sweet chocolate and toffee, or chocolate-covered-caramel if you will, is quite noticeable at first, spreading itself out a bit lean, but much sweeter than the aroma suggests. Munich malt breadiness steadily builds, with a wheaty, oily-dryness. But with some breathing and more sips, a strong caramel sweetness definitely sticks and gives the bready, nutty, dry toast a battle. Some very light prunes and minor vinous notes, but the clove is also persistent, driving back the sweetness and what could be further malt complexity. Too much dryness and phneol dominance, with the wheat really dulling the palate as well. Carbonation is strong, mouthfeel is lightly chewy and very wheaty. Too young?? I’ll definitely revisit in about 3 months. Needs more lagering. Kind of sad Otter creek couldnt do that. Score reflects where I think it could be.