Otter Creek Black IPA website description: 60 IBUs 6% ABV Malts - 2-Row, Caramel 60L, & Carafa III Hops - Apollo, Centennial, & Citra Description: Dark in color and character, this unfiltered Black IPA exudes caramel and roasted notes while highlighting a bold hop bitterness and citrus aroma. Apollo, Centennial, and Citra hops intermingle with the deep complexities provided by copious amounts of caramel malts and de-husked roasted barley.
Otter Creek Black IPA Pours a dark brown coffee color with a tan/mocha head, which dissipates quickly. Aromas of a hop pine forest come through first followed quickly by roasted malt notes.
This is not a novelty black ipa, where the drinker is unable to tell the color of the beer if his/her eyes are closed.
Otter Creek Black IPA is a rich, roasted, coffee, chocolate, slightly sweet ale that is hopped with a Vermont pine forest. Some residual sweetness and light citrus bitterness make an unassuming appearance to complete the taste.
Overall: great roasted malts + great hop profile = Great balance. Sits on the palate perfectly.
A year round drinker that perhaps even the non-hop head stout drinkers could enjoy. This is a dark roasted well hopped beer. Drink it in with your eyes and with your taste buds. Enjoy.
Color – Deep brown. A great color. Starts with a nice yellowy lacy head
A- An interesting blend of hops and roasted notes.
Taste- A balanced flavor that starts with roasted notes and finishes with a grapefruity hop flavor.
Overall- This is the gold standard of black ipa’s as far as I am concerned. If you have never had a black ipa, this one will tell you what they are supposed to taste like. It is not merely an ipa in dark clothing. Instead it takes the hop and malt notes of a good ipa and combines them with the roasted notes of a good porter.
Otter Creek Black IPA website description:
ReplyDelete60 IBUs 6% ABV
Malts - 2-Row, Caramel 60L, & Carafa III
Hops - Apollo, Centennial, & Citra
Description: Dark in color and character, this unfiltered Black IPA exudes caramel and roasted notes while highlighting a bold hop bitterness and citrus aroma. Apollo, Centennial, and Citra hops intermingle with the deep complexities provided by copious amounts of caramel malts and de-husked roasted barley.
Otter Creek Black IPA
ReplyDeletePours a dark brown coffee color with a tan/mocha head, which dissipates quickly.
Aromas of a hop pine forest come through first followed quickly by roasted malt notes.
This is not a novelty black ipa, where the drinker is unable to tell the color of the beer if his/her eyes are closed.
Otter Creek Black IPA is a rich, roasted, coffee, chocolate, slightly sweet ale that is hopped with a Vermont pine forest. Some residual sweetness and light citrus bitterness make an unassuming appearance to complete the taste.
Overall: great roasted malts + great hop profile = Great balance. Sits on the palate perfectly.
A year round drinker that perhaps even the non-hop head stout drinkers could enjoy.
This is a dark roasted well hopped beer. Drink it in with your eyes and with your taste buds.
Enjoy.
Week 5- Otter Creek Black IPA
ReplyDeleteColor – Deep brown. A great color. Starts with a nice yellowy lacy head
A- An interesting blend of hops and roasted notes.
Taste- A balanced flavor that starts with roasted notes and finishes with a grapefruity hop flavor.
Overall- This is the gold standard of black ipa’s as far as I am concerned. If you have never had a black ipa, this one will tell you what they are supposed to taste like. It is not merely an ipa in dark clothing. Instead it takes the hop and malt notes of a good ipa and combines them with the roasted notes of a good porter.