OMalleys Festival Ale

Brewed by Weston Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Weston, Missouri USA

Poured a medium brown color wih a pretty clear body. Small brown head. Sweet maity aroma. Roasted Malt flavor with a hoppy finish. Rather dull beer. You’d be better off with a Surly or a Rogue.

Draft at Weston, happy i will never have to deal with these reportedly infection ridden bottles. Pours a mahogany body with an off white head. Malty dingy malt character with caramel notes. Dark fruit and some chocolate and roast y notes. A bit dank but its decent, on draft that is.

Name: O’Malley’s Festive Ale
Date: August 08, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Ticker
Appearance: gusher that took out over half the bottle on an instant, cloudy amber, fine beige head, sudsy lace
Aroma: light sweet caramel aroma with a musty funk of a fine aged gueze
Flavor: tart and lactic malt flavor, touch of sweetness, earthy astrengency, long bitter finish
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 3/20
Rating: 1.5/5.0
Drinkability: 1/10
Score: -/4

Appearance: Pours out a cloudy, murky, downright muddy-looking brown body with a fizzy, off-white head. Very unappealing. Smell: Humble malts totally bulldozed by sharp, jarring scents of acetic-smelling vinegar, filth, and decay. Say, just what sort of festival has O’Malley dragged me to? It seems all sorts of hair-curling problems and contaminations are battling for control of this poor, poor beer (and poor me for having to go along on this ride). Taste: Darker brown malts with some roasted aspects to it, but, yeah, as with the nose, it’s a traumatic melange of vinegar-soaked rotting fruit skins, unwashed feet, and the most unusual, most horrifying phenols sent straight from depths of Hell. Noted as their "most complex offering" -- I suppose that’s one way to put it. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Highly carbonated. Drinkability: Heaven Almighty, that was totally unacceptable. Some months ago I crossed paths with another Weston product, Leapin’ Leprechaun. That was one of the worst, more poorly produced brews I’ve encountered in a long, long time. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the only disaster to leave the brewery. Sounds like the entire joint could do with a good, long Iodophor soak.

12oz bottle. EXPLOSIVE OPENING. Foamed out of the bottle leaving close to nothing to sample. Aroma of a 5yr old Cantillon. Too bad it’s not! Sour aroma. Tastes tart, whoo-wee. nasty bad. What kind of festering yeast infection was this??

Pours a brown color with a tan head. Aroma is chocolate, caramel, and lactic acid. Flavor is caramel, roast, and a tart lactic finish.

Bottle and on tap at the brewery. I like this beer, got to drink it to some great Irish music. Flavor is sweet and with a bitter after taste. Aroma is malty. This is my 100th rated beer!

Bottle. Pours a darker yellow color. Aroma is malts and some sweet flavors. Flavor is sweeter with a kind of mild bitter aftertaste. Ok beer not good though