Otter Creek Brewing

Otter Creek Brewing
Location	Middlebury, Vermont United States
Year opened	1991
Active beers
Name Type Otter Creek Copper Ale Altbier Otter Creek Stovepipe Porter Porter Otter Creek Pale Ale Pale Ale Otter Creek Vermont Lager Pilsener Wolaver's Pale Ale Pale Ale Wolaver's IPA India Pale Ale Wolaver's Brown Ale Brown Ale Wolaver's Wildflower Wheat Wheat Beer
Seasonal beers
Name Type Otter Creek ESB Bitter Otter Creek 'Otter Summer Ale Wheat Beer Otter Creek Pale Ale Pale Ale Otter Creek Alpine Ale Amber Ale Wolaver's Oatmeal Stout Stout Wolaver's Wit Bier Witbier
Other beers
Name Type Otter Creek 15th Anniversary IPA India Pale Ale Otter Creek Helsinki Gold Sahti Otter Creek Otter Kilter Scotch Ale

Otter Creek Brewing is a microbrewery located in Middlebury, Vermont. It produces three lines of beer: Otter Creek Craft Ales, Wolaver's Certified Organic Ales, and "The Shed Brewery".

Otter Creek brewing line in action.

The company began in March 1991, selling its first keg of Copper Ale. In 1994 it outgrew its original site and moved to a new brewery down the road. By 1998, Otter Creek began producing Wolaver’s Certified Organic Ales in partnership with the Panorama Brewing Company. In May 2002 the Wolaver family purchased Otter Creek Brewing, which remains a family owned Vermont company and produces all of Otter Creek and Wolaver’s brands for distribution. Wolavers was originally a beer marketing company in Nevada City, California.

Finished product.

Otter Creek brews and bottles all of its beers in small batches and uses natural Vermont water, domestic malts and hops, and its own top-fermenting yeast. All the Wolaver’s styles are certified organic by Vermont Organic Farmers, and features wheat and oats grown locally in Addison County, Vermont. Otter Creek Brewing produced approximately 30,000 barrels of beer in 2005, and is distributed in 22 States.

Otter Creek Beers

Past Specialty Brews

• Middleberry Ale (2005-2006 only)
• World Tour Series:
  • Double Decker (Jan-Feb 2006)
  • Cerveza Cacao (Mar-April 2006)
  • Otterbahn (May-June 2006)
  • Holy Otter (July - )

External links and references

• Official website
• Ratings from BeerAdvocate.com
• Description from beerme.com