OFallon Blackberry Scottish Ale

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

Watery-brownish color, like old cola. A little bit of tan head. Nice aroma--very strong berry. Bland flavor. Sweet, flat, a bit of berries and malt but not much more. Not so great.

i was not a fan of the blackberry with the scottish style combination. i was quite disappointed with it

Oh this is nice-peat and malt with a tasty blackberry undercurrent. Smoky and sweet. I’m with the Dean on this one- I don’t know why this is rated so low. If it had more body, it’d really be good.

Bottle... My first rating as a Floridian... Clear, caramel-colored ale with a small, fizzy, off-white head. Chocolate, caramel, blackberry nose. Slightly oxidized. Malty, fruity flavor. Medium-bodied with lively carbonation. Crisp, but malty finish. Thanks to vyvvy for sending the bottle my way!

Pours a darker orange color, this beer is more malt than Blackberry. Not a bad beer, but nothing spectacular.

12 oz bottle. Slightly hazy clear orange color with a reddish tint. Smells of light berries and subdued peated malt. Flavor is similar, but the fruit is more subdued and the smoky malt, although still subtle, is a bit more prominent. Reminds me of a smoked raspberry Tootsie Pop. Dry and overly effervescent with a detracting medicinal note at the end.

While I have tried to stop rating beer that I’m pretty sure will be bad, I still feel the need to try everything made by a local brewer. While this wasn’t great is is much better than it has been previously. Pours clear brown with a tan head. The aroma some some blackberry, caramel malt and a medicinal berry flavor. Medium body with sharp carbonation. Flavor starts with caramel malt then medicinal berries and an odd sourness. The taste is fairly sharp - not what I think of when something says Scottish ale. The finish has some blackberry characteristics and sharp carbonation giving it a crispness. Crispness is great in a pilsener, but a Scottish ale? Adequate for a fruit beer, but it is far from what it advertises itself as.

O’Fallon Blackberry Scottish-Style Ale 12 oz bottle Medium pour in a goblet Recent bottling, imbibed 11/06 Poured a clear brown with an average off-white fizzy quickly diminishing head. Smelt of light smokiness, tea leaves and blackberries. Taste was upfront light bittersweet raspberry ice tea followed by a slight smoke taste on a short to average length finish. Palate was light bodied, watery, and fizzy. Overall, the beer tasted like unsweetened raspberry iced tea. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not, but a cool odd combination.