OFallon 5-Day IPA

Brewed by OFallon Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
OFallon, Missouri USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

(Bottle at HBF2009) Amber and clear. Small white head. Aroma of conifer forest - pine, spruce and juniper. Full boided and dry palate with medium carbonation. Pine, malts, resin, bitterness and fruitiness in taste. Malts and hops in aftertaste.

Yes, an IPA by any other name.......certainly a hoppy experience. Smell of pine and floral hops. Pour is interesting with it’s gunk on the bottom and all. Taste is like any other IPA, may even border on impy IPA territory. Rude crude and difficult to drink. Offensive finish that reminds me of green mouth coating grapefruit rinds. Hangs for quite a while. Right on style!

Nice piney citrus hop aroma, no malts around on this. Clear dark golden boy with a decent amoutn of carbonation. Taste is very crips and very hoppy - medium bodied. There is a faint amount of dry caramel malt in the backgroup, but the dominance is the hops - a mixture of citrus and pine. Further into the beer the citrus aspect goes more into the background the malts become more apparent, but the piney hops are still the main character. This is a nice showing from a generally inconsistant brewery. I hope this is an indication of things to come. I am told they are going to be bottling this soon - hope it is sooner than later.

Sediment-laden orange body, thin buff head. Aroma of sugared grapefruit and pine, backed by caramely malt. Bright and fresh. Falls off in the body, which is thin and piney, with grapefruit notes but little more than wispy, biscuity malts backing the hops. Dry and resiny. I can’t say this is very appealing.

Draught (Helsinki Beer Festival 2009) - Amber in colour. Soapy and hoppy aroma with peace and grapefruit. Hoppy taste with grapefruit and a pleasant bitterness. Not too overwhelming and rather nice.

20070708 12oz bottle, trade from theisti. Dark copper-golden color with sturdy beige head of large bubbles. Unfiltered, or at least cloudy. Caramel and waffle notes blended nicely with fruity yeast and citrus hops. Background honey and floral hints. Flavor is simple up front, sweet and malty, notes of belgian waffle (belgian waffle?) and simple syrup before good resinous pop of cascade goodness. Mildly unctuous at the end, lingering citrus (grapefruit) pithiness after finish. Nice stuff that holds its own in a crowded morass of micro-brewed IPAs.

Draft at Newstead Tower Pub in STL. Pours a nice golden with fluffy white head. Nose is pretty nice with resins and citrus coming through, nice crisp and clean body. Clean bitterness and pretty decent IPA.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber with off-white head. Aroma is nice, some caramel and pine. Flavor of some caramel, nice pine hop flavor, nice small bitter. Mouth feel is medium body with high carbonation. Over all, and easy drinking, tasty, nicely balanced IPA.