OFallon 5-Day IPA

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

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.

Bottled. Beer is clear, medium orange-caramel brown colored. Head is average-sized, creamy/frothy, beige, slowly diminishing and mostly lasting.<P>The aroma is spicy, high-alpha hop driven. Malty with light notes of toasted grain, cracker; Hoppy with moderate/heavy notes of resinous grapefruit oil; Light yeast note of basement; Trace of peppery wood.<P>The flavor is moderately sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter with a long, unclean, lightly acidic, lightly sweet finish. Bad sourish/dirty/sharp cheese aftertaste finish. Bleh!<P>The body is medium, the texture is watery/velvety and the carbonation is lively.<P>

Bottle. Pours opaque golden orange, big fluffy white head. Aroma is hoppy (citrus) caramel, honey wheat pretzels.

Flavor is hoppy bitter with bready maltiness. Not bad, I give it my stamp. No peat here boys!

deep orange opaque color with rocky white foamy head. and actually, don’t think i’m weird, but i touched the head and it didn’t move and it was sticky firmly holding everything into place stronger than hairnet. flavor is very agreeable. lots of strong but not crazy overpowering hops. citrus (lemon and orange) almost feel like they are infused with merigue, and pine, apple, and fruity malty goodness, for lack of better terms .

Bottle from theisti...thanks! Golden apricot color with typical thin white head. Peachy nose with floral hops and rich apricot nose. Medium bodied. Great pink grapefruit flavors with lots of hop flavor. Good stuff. Much props theisti.

Pours a hazy amber with a small off-white head that dissipates to wisps around the top and left a bit of lacing. Smell is a balance of sweet malts and citrus and pine. The hops are dominant but not overdone in the smell. The taste starts with a pop of bitter piney hops with some grapefruit which gives way to the malts before the hops leave a bit of bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel was medium with good carbonation and nice and sticky with pine resin. The drinkability is pretty high on this and it’s a decent example of an AIPA.

Bottle. Deep gold, approaching orange body. Small, frothy, off-white head, mostly diminishing. the aroma is fairly well balanced between caramel malts and grapefruit hops. It also displays some huskiness. But there is not much else to the aroma. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and moderately bitter, though less of a crisp bite than expected. Medium body, watery texture and lively carbonation. Slightly above average.

Draft. Amber in the glass with a frothy off-white head that mostly lasted and left good lace. Subdue aromas of pine and malt. The flavor found pine, floral, and caramel. Light body and a mild bitterness throughout.