Otter Creek Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest Autumn Ale is our version of the perennial favorite Bavarian Autumn beer. Oktoberfest’s deep golden hue matches the fall foliage here in Vermont. Brewed with Hallertauer and Tettnang hops to balance its clean, malty sweetness, it’s the perfect brew for a crisp Autumn day.
Available from September to November.

2.8

354 reviews

Middlebury, United States

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2.8 12oz bottle in a lager glass. Pours amber with a lacy, off-white head. Aroma of pale and light caramel malts plus a little bit off hops. Flavor tastes a little off. Average texture. A decent beer but not the best.

2.9 Pours amber with an off white head. Aroma is caramel and toasty. Taste is sweet with some acidity, somewhat astringent finish.

3.2 Bottled. Orangey pour with white head. Caramel malts and nothing special finish. Not bad.

3.1 This is a pretty typical American Oktoberfest. Malty but perhaps too much caramel for the style, light German hops. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing special either.

4.4 This beer has a great taste with no aftertaste. Slightly sweet with an under tone of hops. Great aroma and clean finish

3.5 Light flavor and light on pallet. Overall a good beer but was Expecting more when I poured it in the glass.

3.6 Growler at Beer World. Nice clear amber color with tan head. Aroma of sweet malts and caramel. Flavor was brown sugar and wheat, caramel and toasty wheat. Nice palate with slight bitter and sweet edge

2.6 What’s going on here ? Mildly refreshing, but malty and watery. This toes the line between a light lager and oktoberfest.

2.8 Bottle. Poured an orangey gold. half a finger of head. the nose had malts, caramel, and a little toffee. Initial taste was a bad metalic. It also had a little smokiness to it at the end. Nothing really stands out to me in this brew. not the greatest Oktoberfest.

2.0 Smells of caramel. Pours hazy amber with minimal head. Tastes like beer-flavored water with soft carbonation. Save money and just have seltzer.

1.6 very little aroma. appearance is light amber with a decent head. taste is slightly malty but kind of watery.

2.6 12 oz. bottle from Bert’s Better Beer. Generic malt flavor with a dry slightly bitter finish. Unfortunately there is also a sour metallic taste throughout the sip. What’s odd is this is a fresh bottle and the second bottle I opened had the same taste and aromas. So it leads me to believe that this is produced by the hops or malt. Anyway, I wouldn’t buy this again.

2.9 Poured a cloudy copper color with a one finger white head. Aroma is skunky, caramel, and a very faint pine. Taste is light sweetness, lightly bitter, and that same skunkyness I had in the aroma. Feels light body and lively, with a bitter sweet finish.

1.8 Not much of an Oktoberfest. Kind of bland and not malty. Color is too light which is probably why the beer is bland. It is still a good drinking beer just not an Oktoberfest to me.

3.6 Bottle from otter creek. Pours orange foamy head. Big malt aroma and flavor one of best oktobers I have gad

3.3 12oz bottle- pours gold with a light tan head. Aroma is light/medium malt-caramel/toast/nutty, 2nd herbal. Taste is light/medium malt-caramel/toast, 2nd herbal-tea hops.

2.8 Otter Creek Brewery: Pours a light copper color with a small white head. Aroma is a mild caramel malt aroma. Taste is mild caramel malt taste. German dry hops are present throughout. Crisp and refreshing, but doesn’t stand out. Oktoberfests are weird for me because sometimes the most innocuous examples are the biggest draws. With this beer, I just wanted to get it over with, and I did.

3.5 I poured a 12oz bottle into an Oktoberfest mug. Appearance: Pure orange/copper color. Mostly clear, but with a distinct fogginess to the complexion. Forms a large, white, soapy head which mostly dissipates but does leave minor lacing. Smell: Noticeably malty, lightly sweet on the surface, with a distinct generic lager aroma at the core. Taste: It’s really difficult to make an Oktoberfest truly tasty and unique without going to extreme lengths or resorting to gimmicks. Frankly, I think it’s all American breweries can do to make a beer that simply doesn’t suck to garner a thumbs up from more refined beer drinkers like me. Otter Creek Oktoberfest is a perfect example of that. It’s the above average generic American Oktoberfest. It starts out noticeably sweet and malty. Light toffee and other hard candy flavors are prominent right away. They give way to a light, dry, but inoffensive bitterness on the second half with a slightly pasty, dry aftertaste. There is a very noticeable clean lager flavor undermining the entire palate. But it’s a clean, authentic lager taste - nothing that indicates adjuncts or cheapness. I’d definitely prefer more flavor overall, but what’s here is definitely decent. The sweetness is enough to make it enjoyable, but light enough to keep it from being cloying. The light bitterness tells you it’s a beer, but light enough to be drinker-friendly. Mouthfeel: Surprisingly thick, soft, almost creamy, but not sticky. Doesn’t quite feel tepid, but it’s not as heavy as a stout or any kind of imperial brew. Drinkability: What sells me on Otter Creek Oktoberfest is just how comfortable it is in the mouth and how easy it is to drink. I found myself taking huge gulps even though it isn’t a particularly refreshing beer and I wasn’t even that thirsty. At only 4.5% ABV it’s definitely sessionable and would make an ideal starter beer for Joe and Jane Six Pack looking to get out of their fizzy yellow beer rut.

2.0 Enters the glass lite to medium amber small tan head.Almost no aroma.At first taste not to good like metal but the finsh is much better lite malts and caramel and a touch of bitterness.

2.4 THOUGHTS: OK, but nothing special. A little sticky and cloying up front and rather metallic in the finish. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a slightly hazy, medium to dark, brownish orange with an average, off-white head that kept a decent sheet and left good lacing. The aroma was moderate dark bread and caramel; light floral and grassy hops; honey and slight citrus. The initial flavor was moderately sweet and slightly bitter; while the finish was light to moderately sweet, slightly acetic, and ligh to moderately bitter with a short to average duration. There was caramel malt, molasses, maple syrup, grassy hops, dark toasted bread, and slightly burnt toast. The light to medium body was slightly syrupy with tingly carbonation and a metallic finish.

2.6 Pours cloudy amber with a thick off-white head and a skunky malt aroma. There is a hearty amber malt flavor with a dry slightly bitter finish.

2.9 Light orangeish color with an average whitish head and soapy strands of lacing. Aroma and flavor of roasted malt and dark bread. Also some brown sugar and spices in the taste, lingering sweet malt on the palate.

3.6 Aroma of fresh bread and malty sweetness. This is a dry and flavorful marzen, well balanced. A very nice Oktoberfest release that is underrated, imo. Upgraded in 2018 - thanks, Lee - sweeter and well rounded.

2.7 Pours an amber color with an off-white head. toasted and caramel malts dominate. Flavor is also malty with mostly the caramel malts.

2.8 Pours a clear orange with a very thin white head. Aroma of caramel and toasted malts. Flavor of grain and light hops.

2.8 Bottle to pint glass. Pours a nice cloudy copper color with a sparse white head, and good lacing. Has a nice tangy malty taste.

3.0 Bottled 08.16.11. Pours clear orange and gold with a small yellow-beige head that recedes to leave a ring of lacing. Aromas of sweet caramel and plum, dark fruit, and some funky mushrooms and malt. The flavor is mushroom, sweet malt, and some bitter grass. Average. [809]

3.0 Not one of the better Oktoberfest beers out there, but it’s palatable. It pours a copper color with a nice-sized tan head. The head leaves some good lacing around the inside of the glass. The nose features some toasted malts, caramel, barley and some dry hops. The flavors are predominately malty with some dry and fruity hops thrown in for good measure. The finish is a little on the sweet and sour side, which puts me off to this beer a bit. But it’s still a decent beer to celebrate the upcoming fall season with.

2.9 12oz bottle into a pilsner glass. Bland maltiness, plastic autumn fell, is this really from Vermont? I would think they would excel at a beer like this that exemplifies their state. The brew looks good but the taste is quite lacking for a superior octoberfest. Solid orange and copper mix in clor, heads chills awhile in a tiny froth. The brew is a bit crisp and forth coming of the season, but wheres the bite? Wheres the sweetness that brings you back for more? Mild herbal essence and incomplete matl connections brings this brew down a few notches. But a decent brew to start an Octoberfest session.

1.6 Although this isn’t my favorite style of beer, I feel that it is all wrong. The aroma smells stale and the taste isn’t much better. Nothing at all really stands out other than borderline mediocrity.