OFallon Blackberry Scottish Ale

Brewed by OFallon Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
OFallon, Missouri USA

12oz bottle. Poured a dark orange color with a large sized off white head. Aromas of strong berries and some caramel. Tastes of strong berries, caramel and very light peat. Thin body. Strong berry presence.

Brownish orange in color with a thin, off-white, soda pop, fizzy head. Aroma is berry with a strong, malty sweetness. Flavor is somewhat overwhelmed with a carbonic bite and is more like a soda pop with some caramel sweetness. A pleasant berry flavor and a Kellogs cornflake maltiness in the finish.

bottle-pours copper amber with a fizzy off-white head. buttery berry aroma starts with some notes of toasted grains and more berries. the flavors are actually pretty good-less berry than the aroma would make it seem. some nice fruity sweet malts, chocolate, light caramel, and light diacytl, especially on the finish. Different and not all that bad.

In the bottle from Dirty John’s. Pours a cloudy copper with an off-white head. Amazing mixed aroma of berries and acid. This must be a remarkably low pH beer. I’ll bet the yeast loved it. And from the size of the yeast cake in the bottle, I’d say I was right. Flavor is not tart (and it should be from the aroma), but more on the sweet side. Subtle hop content, but a strong medicine-like fruity flavor. I don’t know why, but I liked it a lot. Maybe it has something to do with this perfect Nebraska September day.

Hazy dark amber color with no head left on top. Smell is real fruity, full of berries, hint of chocolate. Flavor is not as good. It doesnt come off as particularly strong in any department. Could use some malt to keep it strong, and the blackberries don’t come off the same.

Much thicker then most fruit berrs, this one is not bad at all. WHile like a slightly thinner conmsitencey, the flavor is really nice. Like Blue creek blueberry (which is a bit better), this is a subtle beer without overt sweetness. Yet the sweet undertone is nice and almost makes up for the heavy finish

Pours thin orange and pale with a thin white head. Sweet and limp nose of toasted grain and fruit. Currants and icing sugar. Very thin palate and no hops to be seen. A trace of lemon. Sweet and unbalanced. Faint tart berries and mint in the finish.

The name pretty much says it all - it’s a blackberry flavored malty medium bodied ale. Semi-full bodied with the fruity taste not overpowering, just noticeable and balanced in pretty well with the malt taste.