OFallon Gold

Brewed by OFallon Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
OFallon, Missouri USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Pours with a rich, copper body holding moderate carbonation and a staunch head... I wouldn’t dub this "gold" as that moniker would position it closer to yellow than orange and that simply isn’t the case. After splitting hairs, I find the aroma to have a candied-fruit quality, with notes of banana taffy alongside some sweet, honey-touched cereal grains. Quite nice, actually. Mildly nutty flavor with sweet grainy notes that take their cues from the aroma. Full, thick mouth. Light hints of fruit, grain & alcohol linger with an ever-so-slight touch of bitterness adding a clean finish. I am totally impressed by such a great effort from what should be a fairly simple beer!

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22oz bomber. Filtered and clear. Golden hue. Spiral white head. Aromas of grainy and sweet malts. Lightly roasted. Medium bodied with a grainy crispness. Slight sweet caramel note. Subtle fruity esters. Nice fruity yeast flavor. Crisp smooth and easy. Slight sugary malt flavor. Off-dry finish with a citrusy slightly spicy hop flavor.

Bottle. Pours a yellow gold color with pretty much no head. Fruit and funk on the nose. Flavor is apples and beer. Very watery as whatever flavor there is is spread way too thin. You might as well have a nice cold glass of water. Thanks to tjthresh for the bottle.

What a beer to have as your flagship. For a brewery as uneven as O’Fallon it shouldn’t catch me by too much of a surprise. Pours golden with an off-white head. The aroma has quite a bit of pale malt, light butter, light skunk and some spice. Medium body with sharp carbonation. Starts with elements from the aroma along with some dirty mustiness. The finish has some spicy hops aspects, other than that it is more of the same. Drinkable, but that is about it.

O’Fallon Gold 12 oz bottle Medium pour in a goblet Recent bottling, prospected 11/06 Poured a clear dirty gold (orange and brown tints on yellow) with a white fizzy quickly diminishing head. Smelt of light perfume and grass hops with light malt tones. Taste was upfront light bittersweet biscuit and perfume hops followed by a light bitter dirty grain on a short finish. Palate was light bodied, watery and fizzy. Overall, its too watery and simple to be sipped on and enjoyed. I’m disappointed I had to get a glass dirty for this one. A tasty summer quencher straight out of the bottle, at best.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy fine to medium sized white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a slightly hazy softly carbonated orange brown colored body. The aroma was malty and dough. The crisp semi-thick mouth feel was tingly at the start with a mellow finish. The flavor contained notes of malt hops and dough. An OK brew just nothing special.

Bottle. Poured a white small fizzy head that mostly diminished with virtually no lacing, transparent, minimal carbonation, and a golden hue. Nose was fruity, spicy note, sweet, and mildly hoppy. Flavor was sweet, malty and fruity. Tingly mouthfeel and light-medium body. Not one that I would go to the ends of the earth to get.

Pours a dark golden color with a decent white head that fades quickly, but still remains. Sweet aroma with some hoppiness. Smooth, sweet malt taste along with mild hop flavor without any bitterness. Inoffensive and likeable, but not assertive or memorable.