Double or Nothing
Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Lawson's Finest LiquidsBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
7.11
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Leighton (35102) reviewed Double or Nothing from Otter Creek Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared in London - thanks to Gary! Pours clear, deep ruby with a creamy, off-white head. Rich bready malts in the nose, toffee, ripe fruits, berries. Medium to big sweet flavour with lots of gooey fruits, berries, creamy caramel, light earthy bitterness. Full bodied, oily and chewy, with fine carbonation. Warm finish with lots of gooey ripe fruits, berries, toffee, bread. Great stuff. Nice depth. Good punch but still nice and drinkable.
Theydon_Bois (46756) reviewed Double or Nothing from Otter Creek Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle split at Bespin, thanks to Leighton, 19/09/16. Rich amber to copper with a decent light beige cap. Nose is fruit cake, spice, toffee melt, dates, prunes, earthy, light booze. Taste comprises sweet malts, caramel, toffee, fruit cake, brown sugars, light spice, dates. Full body, fine carbonation - fairly light and airy for the ABV, light boost in the close. Decent enough easy drinking BW.
Scopey (25220) reviewed Double or Nothing from Otter Creek Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to LKS. It pours clear deep red - brown with a medium light tan head. The aroma is sweet, sticky, toasty brown bread, resinous, leather, toffee, dried fruits, wood and umami. The taste is dry, wood, sticky, leather, resinous, leather, toffee, dried fruits, toasty brown sugar, light spice and earth with a smooth, warming finish. Full body and moderate, foamy carbonation. A bit sweet and boozy, but overall ok.
Buckeyeboy (18931) reviewed Double or Nothing from Otter Creek Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle pours out a copper amber topped with a sand head. Nose is sweet malts toffee caramel maple syrup and rich malts. Taste is more of the heavy rich malts caramel toffee maple sweetness and a nice end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from bottle dark mahogany with little or no head. Aromas of booze caramel dark fruit maple and wood. Taste is thick and viscous caramel maple booze and vanilla. Interesting.
superspak (10160) reviewed Double or Nothing from Otter Creek Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Got in a BIF from tasterschoice62. 12 ounce bottle into snifter, no bottle dating. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy dark ruby red color with a small dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with some light streaming carbonation. Aromas of big caramel, brown sugar, toffee, maple, molasses, wood, vanilla, raisin, plum, apple, fig, toasted bread, light chocolate/nuttiness, herbal, light pepper, and woody/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, maple syrup, wood, and moderate fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, toffee, maple, molasses, wood, vanilla, raisin, plum, apple, fig, toasted brown bread, light chocolate/nuttiness, herbal, light pepper, and woody/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal bitterness and wood spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, maple, molasses, wood, vanilla, dark fruit, toasted brown bread, light chocolate/nuttiness, herbal, light pepper, and woody/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, maple syrup, wood, and moderate fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light dryness from oak spiciness and hop bitterness as well. Light carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a very smooth, creamy/silky, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent English barleywine style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, maple syrup, wood, and moderate fruity yeast flavors; and very smooth and easy to sip on for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Double or Nothing from Otter Creek Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at Lulus, 1/22/16.
Deep, dark amber to light mahogany body shows slight clarity against the light and a beige head atop that is small but somewhat well-retained.
Earthy, bready malts with rich caramel, light vanilla and of course, maple. It’s not overdone from the nose, which is great and I like that it’s not chalk full of hop resin, as I can’t see that working with maple syrup. Not that I’d ever guess maple wood, but there’s some element of something like that here. It has a difficult to describe character of old, cured wood. Sort of dusty. Quite interesting. Beyond that, there’s light fruitiness from the maple and yeast, adding apple, date and light blackberry notes. Not boozey, or not too much anyways, though definitely rich and intimidating.
A huge amount of caramel and toffee to begin, with maple quickly asserting itself, though it doesn’t come off syrupy or overly cloying. Acidity is right away notable, seemingly yeast-derived, though perhaps there’s a bit of wood tannin drying things out? Earthy, aged (though not oxidized) flavors abound as well and while it’s not a sugar bomb, it’s very, very rich, very powerful and just difficult to drink much more than a few ounces. I think it’s actually done quite well, as it’s got some light cola, chocolate, dark fruit and vanilla, which was a lot more complexity than I expected. Still, if it had just a bit more dryness, I think it would be quite a bit more successful.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
600th rating. Pours a rich dark brown from a bottle. Don’t believe the label, no maple here. Tobacco, yes. Molasses/dark brown sugar, yes. Vanilla, yes. Booziness, a little. Good beer.
Jow (8450) reviewed Double or Nothing from Otter Creek Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home to start the Pats Chiefs playoff game luckily had a New Emgland brew to get party started. Hazy reddish pour. Nose is booze and ripe fruit light maple. Tastes of maple, oak, plum, apricot, tobacco, caramel, so,e brandy. Nice light palate not all that assertive for a bw. Some boozy warming at end but overall nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
After having about 3 of these, I finally gave in and figured I think this one is ready to finally say something on this.
This was poured into a mini snifter this time, though other times, regular snifters, still, pretty much the same thing.
Anyways, the appearance was a dark brown close to black color. There wasn’t any head nor lacing.
The smell started off with some honey and maple syrup. Light dry oaky to woodiness slides super light in underneath.
The taste compliments the sweetness of the maple syrup and the honey. Oaky woodiness slides in underneath to try and balance. Smooth semi-slick sliding sticky maple to honey aftertaste with a sticky sweet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a decent sipping quality about it. Carbonation seems to have fully gone away, but I’m okay with that as I’m leaning towards the English side of the barleywine wheelhouse for this one.
Overall, as a barleywine, this one works for the time that I had it. Though I’ve had several of these previously. I think I can finally say, things have equaled out a bit on the aroma and flavor allowing the maple and the honey to actually coincide with some malts. Still, could probably use a little more age. At least I can finally say something on this as when I first tried it back in November, it was extremely way too sticky and pretty much a mess, IMO.