Twentieth Anniversary Ale
Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.88
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at a ChrisO Tasting - London. This one I brought from the USA. Pours lightly hazy, glowing ruby with a fine, white foam head. Big malt aroma, hints of caramel and berries. Hefty sweet flavor with lots of ripe and semi-dark fruits, caramel, some booze, mild earthy hops and pine. Full bodied with average carbonation. Warming finish with syrupy caramel and other toasted sugars, plenty of very hot alcohol, caramel, semi-dark and ripe fruits. Not perfectly balanced. It’s OK. Pretty punchy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 12fl.oz.Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, bread, caramel, berry - dusty fruit, mint. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, alcohol, caramel, malt sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120506]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Deep perfectly tinted ruby coloured body with a nice robust brown and even copper glow, all perfectly clear - very nice. Aroma of strong oak, vanilla, metal, alcohol, pit fruits and a strong amount of nuts. Full-bodied; Strong alcohol and brandy flavour at first with a lot of hops, some deep peat and malted barley notes with a kiln-fired smokiness and a hint of oak at the tail end. Aftertaste shows good depth and a nice pit fruit sweetness behind the bitterness and strong oaky bits. Overall, a nice beer - this is definitely a barley wine, and a good one with a lot of complexity. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 18-November-2011 for US$4.49 sampled at home in Washington watching the fireworks from here over Washington on our nation’s birthday - 04-July-2012 - sampling an all-american birthday beer in honour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is sweet malts, toffee, mild floral and fruity notes and some mild earthyness. Flavour is fruity, toffeeish, caramel, sweet malts with some mild notes of yeastyness as well. Rather pleasantly balanced. Slight alcoholic burn to
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm. Hazy mahogany colour, small head. Aroma of plum brandy and molasses. Sweet and viscous with huge body. Caramel and treacle, salty dried grapefruits, ripe fruits, syrup and molasses. Soft mouthfeel. Intense warming finish. Huge beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the Columbus Winter Beerfest on 01/14/2012: Pours a deep reddish-brown color with a medium tan head that recedes steadily. Small patches of lacing. The aroma consists of caramel malt and dark fruits. Full-bodied with a sweet ripe fruity character and notes of malt and hops. The finish is fruity with a lingering sweetness left behind. Decent offering from Otter Creek overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
draft - Pours deep ruby red and has an assertive fruity malt aroma. There’s a big, sweet, malty flavor with caramel, fruit, and subdued alcohol under all that syrupy sweetness. It’s pretty good, but stay away if you don’t like sweeter beers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap. Pours with a not quite clear, deep brown body with a thick, creamy and lasting tan head. Aromas are boozy, sweet, burnt flan, malty, caramel, esters. Overall a burnt impression. Flavors are bready, malty and alcoholic. Decently up front esters, alcohol, vanilla, brandy, toffee. Medium bubbles but a bit sharp on this application. Full bodied and warming.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Otter Creek Brewery: Pours a darkish amber color with very little head. Aroma is of sugary malts and a bunch of dark fruitiness. Body is pretty thick and syrupy. Beer is pretty damn sweet, but I could still manage it. Belgian feel to it in some ways. Mostly just a lot of sugar and fruitiness. Kind of like a Barley Wine, but a bit different. Alcohol was very well-covered actually, which is a good thing for a high ABV monster like this. I liked it, but admittedly this wasn’t the best beer ever.
CLW (16720) reviewed Twentieth Anniversary Ale from Otter Creek Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz bottle from Bert’s Better Beers, normally sold in a limited 4 pack. Used a snifter. Copper color. Small, light head. Tons of sweet malt, almost too sweet on the nose. Well, the taste is complex. Caramel, dark fruit, molasses, with hops toward the backend. Mouthfeel is sticky, syrupy. Big alcohol shows up in the finish. This would do well to age. At 12% it’s killing the flavors that are here. Grab some and cellar it.