OFallon 5-Day IPA

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

Bottled and served in a standard pint glass: Hazed copper hue with a huge fluffy head and very good lace. The aroma has notes of soapy and herbal vapours along with moderate citric and piney hops, chalky and earthy yeast esters and some caramel and biscuity malts.

The taste starts with some sharp bitterness and acidic fruity tones over grainy malts. There is a smack of resin but that leads to a chalky, medical, and astringent finish that I don’t really dig. The mouth feel is sharp and biting with heavy carbonation.

The finish of this beer (along with that soapy note on the nose) kept me from enjoying some of nice citric qualities found within.

Bottled. Poured a very slightly hazy medium orange with a tall, rocky cap of beige head and sticky lacing. The aroma first found an intriguing floral hop presence with sweet toffee... deeper caramel sugars, citrus, and pine notes emerge shortly afterward along with a bit of cookie sweetness. The flavor had sweet candied caramel and toffee with mild pine, citrus, and floral bitterness.. left a moderate-length pine and caramel finish. Medium-bodied with a creamy middle on the palate.. OK balance. Solid brew.

Cloudy orange color with a huge long lasting beige head. Strong aroma of caramel malts with some lemony citrus hops in the background. Flavor of sweet caramel malts and some citrus hops.

Pours a transparent orange amber with a dense, frothy, well-lacing off-white head. Aroma of fairly fresh, green grapefruity hops and a touch of earthy pale toasted malt. Body starts fairly full with a decent citrusy grapefruity flavor and toasty earthy caramel malt. Very drinkable and well-balanced.

Date: 07/04/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

clear copper, frothy white head eventually settles but can be reroused at a moments notice, thick lace, soft floral hop aroma and slightly sweet caramel malt, creamy body, lots of bitter hop flavor, a touch of sweet caramel malt falls short of balance, eventually the sweetness starts to catch up

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Flowery ,citrus hop aroma, just a touch faint for all the dry hopping done to it,plenty of caramel backing that you can smell in the aroma, taste is fresh hop,and some caramel,but not as much as the aroma would have you believe will be in there, a long satisfying bitterness in the finish. Just a tad timid,but probaly the best O’Fallon product I’ve had. Thanks LT Judge

Draft. Plenty of tart hoppy aromas. Lots of body on the copper golden beer. Outstanding hop bite and evidence of dry-hopping. Lots of pine and continuous bittering. A nice IPA with aggressive flavors.

Pours a dark amber color with a thick off white head. Great Caramel malt, Piney hop aroma.Nice citrus-piney flavor with a nice balance of malt backing. Body is a tic thin though.The hop flavor seems to hang out in you mouth for awhile.Great bitter finish.