OFallon Blackberry Scottish Ale

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

Bottle from xmarcnolanx. Light blueberry aroma with a hint of toasted malt. Inoffensive. Pours a decent looking copper. Mostly lightly toasted malt on the palate with the blueberry showing up more on the finish. Medium bodied, certainly not cloying for a fruit beer.

Mmm, what a beautiful color. It looks dark brown/ruby like scotch ale, but with an extra bright shininess, probably due to the blackberry. The smell is full of dark fruits, malt, and smoke. Very appetizing. I think the blackberry does make an impact on the flavor, it’s not intense, but instead nicely mellows out the strong, roasted flavors of the scotch ale, giving more of a refreshing tartness. The flavor is also full of peat, toast, and oak. Great, smooth and thick but not syrupy mouthfeel. When I first percieved the idea of a scottish ale with blackberry I was sort of timid, but now the combination makes perfect sense. Great ale and one I constantly recommend at work.

Not a bad beer. A Scottish ale, typical for that style, malt and no hop presence, and complemented by light berry. It reminds me of Alba Elderberry. Light brown color. Very easy to drink.

They should market this better. I was so happy to find this for $2.99 a six! The other O’Fallon’s are not as good as this one. I have found this be be the best buy for you money. Totally drinkable. I am happy to bring this anywhere, as long as I can tell them it was less than 50 cents a beer.

9/09/2007: OFallon Blackberry Scottish-Style Ale is brown in color with a small, frothy beige head. Based on the first pass at the aroma, this beer smells more like whiskey than blackberry anything. Subsequent sniffs reveal more caramelized malt and a very, very faint berry (barely noticeable). The flavor is caramelized malt with some weak chocolate, fruitiness, and some seedy berry that starts to become noticeable after several sips and as the beer get several degrees warmer (but it’s still very subdued). The maltiness of the beer is rich and there is a welcomed dryness that really adds to the enjoyment of htis beer. The body of this beer is medium to medium-full and is quite smooth and goes down vrey easy. Overall, this is a good beer, but the blackberry isn’t really noticeable at all. That’s fine, but maybe O’Fallon should just make a plain Scottish Ale and just leave out the blackberries (or just drop it from the label!) since the base of this beer is quite tasty on its own.

12 fl. oz. bottle from The Party Source in Bellevue, Kentucky. Rating #78 for this beer...

Poured a clear deep copper color with a small off-white head. The aroma was fruity with notes of berries and some hint of paper. The flavor was a mix of fruit and malt with a mildly bitter finish. Light-medium bodied.

Date: 05/08/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

clear dark blood red, whispy beige head, rich malt aroma with hints of light sweet blackberry offset by some smoke, big creamy body, sweet blackberry balanced by otherwise dry malt flavor, quite tasty, not sure why it’s called a scottish style ale, amazing high rating for a fruit beer but the blackberry is just a character and not the whole story, must have hit the mood just right
-------- /> Date: 05/16/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting

with age the blackberry fades and leaves just the malt flavor lacking much character, better fresh,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Bottled. Beer is clear, medium-dark ruby brown. Head is initially small, white, frothy. Mostly and rapidly almost-totally diminishing.<P>The aroma’s first impression is a bit off. Malty with light/moderate notes of toasted grain, caramel cookie; Hoppy with a light note of resinous citrus; Yeasty with just a hint of basement; Moderate miscellaneous sour fruit jam, glycerine.<P>The flavor is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter with a long, lightly acidic, lightly sweet, moderately bitter finish. Unclean aftertaste won’t stop.<P>The body is medium, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.<P>Throw-away.