OFallon Blackberry Scottish Ale

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

This bottle gets my vote as the worst label ever. However, I do like other products of this brewer and will give it a try. It has a nice aroma and is dominated by sweet raspberries. Flavor is, obviously, raspberry but there is smoke underneath it and some malts, also. As it warms some dark fruit pops up. This beer tends to taste like raspberries in coffee. The flavor is interesting and unique, but not all that great.

Bottle. Light sweet blackberry and bread aroma. Clear light cola brown with no head. Sour smokey malt flavor with light unripe blackberry aftertaste. Scottish ale and fruit isn’t a great combination - the ale flavor doesn’t agree wtih the blackberry. I would have like either flavor better separately, just don’t really like them together.

Saw there was a blackberry beer out there, and knew I had to give it a try. Wow, this is surprisingly good. Not sure whyh it’s rated so low, I really like this beer.

I had this beer on my want list for over a year, only because I’ve had a few others from OFallon, and even though they’ve mostly been terrible, they at least attempt to bring something new to the table. I like weird beer, so wanted to find this one some day. Found a bottle in Nashville, TN actually, and overall I’d have to say it was a similar experience with their other beers, meaning it tasted and smelled downright lousy, but at least it was something new. Has a slightly hazy ruby red colored body, maybe some dark orange hues as well. Very nasty nose of artificial "randomberry" flavoring, with some candy-like grape scents as well. Smells like a magic marker and cheap candy. Stinging cheap plasticy berry and sugar flavors everywhere. I poured most of it out, but at least it was interesting to try.

I had low expectations since scottish ale seems a bit bland to me and this label seemed really cheesy but I enjoyed this. I admire a brewer that pushes the envelope. The strong fruit note worked. Not too sweet. Nice change of pace. A single from steve’s on university.

12oz bottle pours fairly clear brownish amber with a short offwhite head that stays pretty well and laces some. Aromas of caramel malt, under blackberries. Flavor is pretty much the same blackberry and caramel with a light hint of smoke.. Medium body with ample carbonation and a somewhat watery palate. Really not much to this one. Pretty simple brew that didn’t impress me much.

Clear amber brown color with a big beige head. Aroma is very fruity. Flavor of blackberries and caramel malt.

Bottle. Dark reddish beown color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly diminished with good lacing. Light tart fruit roasted malt aroma. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Light sweet flavor with a light sweet finish that was short. Not my style.