We are lucky enough to have the excellent Otter Brewery supplying our beer at the best pub in the world, The Dolphin. We went on a most interesting trip to the brewery earlier this year and had the chance to sample a variety of their wonderful beers. We had an excellent time, and I discovered that I actually do like lager…. as long as it is Tarka lager, brewed by Otter!
We went to the pub this evening and to our delight and surprise, as well as Otter Ale which is the regular brew, there was also Otter Amber available… well, we had to try it, it would be rude not to!
This is what the brewery say about it:
Otter Amber (ABV 4.0%)
Otter Amber was first brewed for the trade in March 2009 as a mid gravity beer to complete the Otter range. Over the last 10 years the ‘mid gravity’ beer has become popular with drinkers, delivering a reasonable strength with great flavour. This gave us the opportunity to develop a really special beer, which within a month of its launch, won its first award in Newton Abbot at SIBA’s prestigious Tuckers Maltings beer festival. Otter Amber has all the qualities of other Otter beers but with a more complex mix of aroma and flavour.
The flavour was fantastic… it reminded me a little of Timothy Taylor, The Landlord, but unlike Taylor’s it had a bitterness and a long flavour and a more complex layer of different flavours, bitter and lovely! One pint was really not enough, nor two…!
http://loiselden.com/2013/05/03/otter-ale-the-brewery-trip/
Lois Elsden 