Here’s a great new label approval for our friends down at Victory Brewing. Today we have Otto Ale, a smoked malt Belgian-style dubbel. Otto will come in 750ml corked bottles and hold on to a hearty 8.1% ABV. Victory announced this brew earlier this week so it was cool to see the label approval today. Label Text: “In 1987, when we arrived in Bamberg Germany for the first time, St. Otto was not there to greet two thirsty travelers in a rented Flat. He’d been dead for 848 years but we were alive, and our recent visit to the Belgian brewery of Orval only fanned the flames of our desire for fermented pleasures. The smoked malt (‘rauch’) beers of this lovely town where St. Otto was once Bishop were our siren song, luring us into deep, exotic flavors that we never before imagined in beer. Three decades later we wondered what smoked malt might add to a Belgian-style dubbel ale. Here is it, an Otto revival of sorts. We hope it helps rejuvenate some of our brain cells that were martyred in Bamberg so long ago…Bill & Ron.”…and yes it DOES say Here is it not Here it is?!
UPDATE 10/12/2011 – Otto will be released on 15 Oct 2011 in 750ml corked bottles.
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