OFallon Happy Holidaze

12oz bottle-A dark brown body with an aroma of spices and slight peppermint. Taste of malt that begins to blend with peppermint. Not very tasty but it was worth someone trying something different but unfortunately didn’t work.

Had this beer on 2/27/2005. Aroma is like no other beer its a spicy scent with a distinct peppermint tone on the back. Color is a deep brown with good carbonation and a thin tight head. Taste is odd. Starting with medium body it goes down with a creamy feel. Then the finish comes in with a faint malt flavor that is overtaken by a minty taste that leaves you feeling like you have some old gum in your mouth. Overall its bad, this is one of the worst winter beers I have ever had. I think they had a cool idea but it didn’t work out too well.

Bought this one after the Christmas season. BLECH! What a nasty beer. It has a fairly strong peppermint thing going... which could have been done right but it seemed like this brew was made with dirty water or something. Pours as brown as the water they probably used to brew with it. I couldn’t finish the six-pack and I ended up just giving them away to a buddy... poor guy...

Better than I thought a mint beer would be. Slight chocolate flavor to balance the mint with a fairly regular body and finish. Tastes great as dessert with chocolate cake.

Sampled at a 2005 Christmas and Winter beer tasting at Delilah’s, Chicago, IL. 2004 vintage. Clear amber beer having a long-lasting off-white head with fair lacing. No discernable carbonation. Nice spicy candy aroma. Light-to-medium bodied that starts with slight sweet malt, spice, and toffee flavors. Finishes with light malt aftertaste. Though rather thin textured, this is a good drinkable winter brew.

Overpoweringly artificial peppermint nose. I’m not looking forward to this...Flavor is likewise sickeningly sweet and artificial peppermint loaded. Nothing I would ever care to repeat for any reason.

The description says this has "a festive hint of peppermint," but I was almost knocked over by the strong, artificial candy cane aroma. The flavor is a thin, light roasted malt with a hint of cocoa and "a festive hint of PEPPERMINT!" The finish, likewise, had "a festive hint of PEPPERMINT!"

<font size=-4><a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/events-detail.asp?eventID=3098>Christmas & Winter Beer Tasting at Delilah’s, Chicago, IL 12/10/2005<font size=-1>

Sampled two times within a month of each other, mainly because I thought the first bottle was fairly good... and certainly unique enough to warrant buying another. Big mistake. My first rating praised the chocolate and peppermint flavors, I thought they were pretty good on a cold winter night, served appropriately warm. I remembered this beer feeling moderately thick, with a biting, sweet candy and smoke finish. Well, the second time I had a bottle, it was an entirely different experience. It was thin, watery, sour, and moldy tasting. The peppermint clashed with everything else in the beer, and tasted like moldy toothpaste. So now I don’t know what to think. Most likely, for some odd reason, this beer just fit my mood at that exact instant when I first tried it.