Boozin’ Blog

I recently toured O’Fallon Brewery near St. Louis, MO. Previously I’d have called them a regional brewer but with a distribution that now includes Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin and Kentucky I guess I’d have to call them a small growing brewery.

Most of their beer doesn’t really do it for me. It tends to the sweet side and my tastes have been drifting towards the hoppy lately. They do have a very nice IPA, however, that I enjoy. It’s called 5 Day IPA because it spends 5 days dry hopping after fermentation. Very nice stuff. And I learned that they have it on cask at a couple of places in St. Louis. Cue the Homer Simpsonesque yummy gurgle noise.

It was a very nice tour. Our guide, Dave Johnson, is also one of the brewers there. So instead of reciting a script as do many brewery tour guides, he plainly and confidently explained every aspect of their process. And with a couple of beer geeks like fellow beer blogger Shawn Connelly and me in tow he had plenty of probing questions to answer. He fielded them all expertly. After the tour he took us to the front room where we were treated to a generous beer tasting.

Completely by coincidence BeerAdvocate asked me to do a profile of O’Fallon for an upcoming issue. So I called the cofounder Tony Cardonna and interviewed him. That plus the tour gave me plenty to work with so you can look for that in the next issue of BA.

And for a few candid shot of the tour and me spilling a beer, here’s a little slide show that Shawn threw together.

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