Marcus Maris Otter

Can. Hazy gold in color with a two and half finger head. Aroma and taste is grapefruit. Very bitter finish on taste.

On tap at GABF. Pours a cloudy orange with small white head. The aroma is dank, onion, grapefruit. Thin body, grapefruit pith, grass, onion, bitter finish, good.

Odd, both in appearance and flavor. Pours like fizzy apple cider, coming out a murky tan-brown with a brief white head and no lacing. Maris Otters give an English nuttiness to the usual NEIPA juice, but there's not enough sweetness to develop the malts into a strong base for the overwhelming hops. Instead, it just comes off as weird, like taking a swig of a traditional brown ale that's been poured on top of a fair-to-middlin' hazy IPA. Doesn't mesh, leaving a dry, somewhat astringent finish accented by honeydew, grapefruit, and earth. Interesting idea, but the execution is shaky.