OFallon 5-Day IPA

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

Bottle courtesy of tjthresh. Pours reddish amber and cloudy wiith a rocky stubborn head. Smells of citrus, pine, some bread. Tastes moderately bitter with pine, pepper and caramel prevailing. Mouthfeel is earthy. Finish is spicy with some nice resiny qualities.

12oz bottle. Sharp piney honey hops in the nose, with a clean and unmuddled taste. It’s straight hops and little in the way of malt, which is nice, and the hops are moderately bitter honey and pine cones, with a little faint bit of butter thrown in for kicks. Sure, it’s not the best IPA, but it’s made to style and does the job: simple, clean, hoppy.

Good hoppy nose on this copper/orange ale. The head is thick and rocky and does some heavy lacing. It has a strong floral aroma backed by pine and grapefruit. The flavor has light caramel malt, grapefruit juice, and a resinous bitterness that lasts long into the finish. Pretty decent effort.

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Copper color with a full heavy cream colored head. Even though the bubbles are larger the head does seem to be quite stable. Only hints of caramel come past the shield of grassy and lightly citric hops. Some mild hints of licorice, but the nose on this one makes me wonder that this really is... IPA, APA or perhaps an amber. Grapefruit peels and some citric jelly beans come to mind after the first sip. For some reason I feel like I am chewing on a hops root. The malt sweetness does not cover the sharp hops. I don’t catch the balance in this one.

Bottle from Party Source. Poured a clear copper color with an large off-white head that lasted and produced good lacing. Moderate hoppy citrus and pine aroma. Medium body with a slick texture. Medium hoppy bitter flavor with a smooth hoppy citrus bitter finish of average duration. Solid drinkable brew.

Pours turbid deep orangy coppery with 2-finger off-white head. Nose is bready malt, hops, orange marmalade, and some earthy and funky hints. Tastes bready caramel malty, with hops and some peaty, earthy, funky undercurrents. Not too shabby at all.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is dark yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain), lightly to moderately hoppy (grapefruit), with a hint of isopropyl alcohol. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately bitter, unclean. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. Below average, or at least this sample was.

From a bottle purchased at Lukas Liquors in KC. The body was medium to light bronze with a khaki head. The aroma was grapefruit with sweet grape juice. There was also some floral notes of dandelion. The taste was grapefruit with some bread crust and minerals. This was uninspiring. The body was smooth and light. Tried again recently, it is decent.