Otter Creek Mud Bock Spring Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

$5.00 bomber enjoyed outside on a beautiful spring evening. I must admit this bottle did not live up to what I was expecting, solid bock just nothing robust and overly enjoyable within it. Juicy plum aroma with a scent of ice tea and molasses. Mottled brown body with a lasting foamy head and streaky lacing. Basic/neutral mouth feel that provided a rather thin finish. Flavor contained a tangy sweetness, very malt forward with some green hops and faint coffee notes.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

cheapdark (1779), Monacatootha, Pennsylvania, USA 3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall 7/10 4/5 5/10 3/5 14/20 Mar 21, 2009 On tap at the Vintage Estates in Ohio, very nice place! Nice looking sparkly dark beer appearance. Good soda like aroma, attractive to the olfactory. Excellent carbonation and feel on the palate. A little roasty on the buds and comes across very like-able. At the tap it was listed as 8% but on this site it is 6%. Either way, hides the alky characters well. A fine finish. Overall, pleasantly surprized.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

The beer looked and tasted a flat. The nose had some definite maltiness and a strong hoppiness to it. It surprised me then, when I took a big sip and was hit by this huge malty, roast, chocalately, toffee burst of flavor. It's followed up by a bit of citrusy hops, but not as much as you would expect from the smell. I would have guess that this was a porter if it had not been for the name and the fact that it did taste a little cleaner than an ale. The weird thing is that you lose a lot of the roasty chocolatey flavors as it warms up. That's unusual since it usually brings flavors out.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

This beer poured a dark reddish-brown with a small head and left no notable lacing. The aroma was malty with a hint of caramel and fruit. The mouthfeel was smooth and nicely textured. The flavor sweet and malty with hop notes and a hint of caramel. It finished with a robust maltiness and a slight hop bitterness.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

The dark red/burgundy body is topped by a thin fizzy soda like head with little lacing left behind. The aroma is malty with a slight caramel sweetness and subtle roasty and fruity notes. The flavor is slightly sweet and malty with slight caramel notes and an underlying bitterness. Medium bodied and smooth.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

red-brown colour, roasty coffe aroma, hazelnut flavor, remembers me more to a porter than a bock (bock<>ale ?!)