Spring Ale
Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Kölsch Spring Out of Production|
Score
5.83
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Spring Ale Special Release is a German-style Kölsch: a bright golden ale originating in Cologne.
Craft brewed with 2-row malt and malted wheat, and hopped with Tettnang and Liberty hops, this beer is crisp and refreshing with a dry finish.
Craft brewed with 2-row malt and malted wheat, and hopped with Tettnang and Liberty hops, this beer is crisp and refreshing with a dry finish.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Poured a pale gold. Taste was pretty inoffensive even for a kolsch. Not much aroma or other stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From Jun 2008
I got this bottle in a trade with jwc215. Thanks Joe!
It pours a clear straw gold with a 2 finger and growing head of foam. More foam sipping is in order here. ;^) Head retention is above average and there's some good lacing.
It has a nice malty/citrus hoppy nose going on. It *smells* refreshing.
The taste has a nice mix of bready malt and citrus hops that are nicely balanced and make for a very smooth tasting beer. Nice.
It's light bodied and the carbonation is lower than what I expected judging from how bubbly it looks in the glass, and it finishes with both some bread and some lemon zest. This is a very drinkable example of the style and I think it does the style proud. Well done Otter Creek!
I got this bottle in a trade with jwc215. Thanks Joe!
It pours a clear straw gold with a 2 finger and growing head of foam. More foam sipping is in order here. ;^) Head retention is above average and there's some good lacing.
It has a nice malty/citrus hoppy nose going on. It *smells* refreshing.
The taste has a nice mix of bready malt and citrus hops that are nicely balanced and make for a very smooth tasting beer. Nice.
It's light bodied and the carbonation is lower than what I expected judging from how bubbly it looks in the glass, and it finishes with both some bread and some lemon zest. This is a very drinkable example of the style and I think it does the style proud. Well done Otter Creek!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2017
at 09:40
7/10
Labelled as German style kolsch when I had it a few years ago
Tried
on 22 Oct 2016
at 10:12
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a cloudy gold with a small frothy white head that leaves good sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is a corn malt and honey. Medium mouthfeel with a honey malt and grain. Not much going on with this one
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2011
at 01:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Chriso’ Blue Mountains of Virginia tasting. Gold colour with lasting white head. OK beer, in fact very good beer with sherbert hop on end. Pretty decent and very drinkable. Refreshing at 2am in the morning
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2010
at 02:27
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
22nd May 2010. ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting! (Early hours of the morning rating). Light dry palate. Lagerish malt - dry. Dry dry dry! Pretty grim!
Tried
on 02 Jul 2010
at 09:10
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ chrisos Back In The UK Tasting.Clear light to medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted - caramel, german malt, fruity, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100522]
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2010
at 15:56
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
bottle at Chris-O ... golden amber ... grassy lager nose ... its just typical yeuch lager
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2010
at 02:39
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to mar. Pours with a clear golden body and a small white head. Aroma is grassy, grainy, sweet, bready. Taste is watery and grainy with not much going on. Medium to light bubbles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2010
at 06:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Golden colour and quickly dissipating, white head. Thin, aroma of German hops and corn and stuff. A little sweet and corny. Some hop action going down in the taste. A simple beer, but does the trick for the most part. Some grassy elements, and dry by the end.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2010
at 13:30