Olallie Ale
Ground Breaker Brewing
- From:
- Ground Breaker Brewing
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
Ranked #388 - ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 82
Ranked #34,829 - Avg:
- 3.47 | pDev: 11.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 16, 2024
- Added:
- May 15, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
Made with brown rice, sorghum, tapioca, blackberries, cane sugar, organic lentils, and hops.
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Rated by solok from California
2.95/5 rDev -15%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.95/5 rDev -15%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Interesting fruit flavor. Like a raspberry seltzer. Very single-noted.
Mar 16, 2024
Rated by Captain69 from Illinois
3.5/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
decent beer for a gluten free beer nice floral flavor
Jun 06, 2023
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
3.48/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Can at Freshcraft, Denver, CO
A: The beer is crystal clear reddish amber in color and has a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a quarter finger high off white head.
S: Light to moderate aromas of cane sugar and blackberries are present in the nose.
T: The taste is a bit sweet from the cane sugar and has hints of blackberries and notes of sorghum.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and watery on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The other ingredients in this beer helped to mask most of the flavors of sorghum, making this beer more palatable compared to other gluten-free beers.
Serving type: can
Aug 28, 2019A: The beer is crystal clear reddish amber in color and has a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a quarter finger high off white head.
S: Light to moderate aromas of cane sugar and blackberries are present in the nose.
T: The taste is a bit sweet from the cane sugar and has hints of blackberries and notes of sorghum.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and watery on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The other ingredients in this beer helped to mask most of the flavors of sorghum, making this beer more palatable compared to other gluten-free beers.
Serving type: can
Rated by Wild_Fermentation from California
3.23/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.23/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
A better GF beer
Jun 29, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.06/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
3.06/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
12oz can - gluten-free, obviously, and made with blackberries and rose hips. Not sure what or who an 'olallie' is.
This beer pours a clear, medium salmon red colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly pale pink head, which leaves some decent defrosting back windshield pattern lace around the glass as it slowly dissipates.
It smells of oil of attar, semi-sweet grainy and doughy malt, some muddled dark berry fruitiness, a bit of buttered white bread, and some indistinct, I'm gonna say, hop bitterness. The taste is gritty and grainy alterna-malt, a fading berry sweetness, vegetal rose petals, more buttery crackers, a touch of earthy yeast, and more understated leafy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, with a growing pithiness kiboshing any attempt at a real smoothness here. It finishes trending dry, with a generic bitter essence exhibiting the most lingering fervour.
Overall - yeah, this one demonstrates what typically happens when you use sorghum, tapioca, etc as your malt base. The blackberry and rose hip adjuncts can only mask so much, and sadly they fall away much too quickly. Not particularly enjoyable to put back, I'd afraid to say.
Jun 27, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium salmon red colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly pale pink head, which leaves some decent defrosting back windshield pattern lace around the glass as it slowly dissipates.
It smells of oil of attar, semi-sweet grainy and doughy malt, some muddled dark berry fruitiness, a bit of buttered white bread, and some indistinct, I'm gonna say, hop bitterness. The taste is gritty and grainy alterna-malt, a fading berry sweetness, vegetal rose petals, more buttery crackers, a touch of earthy yeast, and more understated leafy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, with a growing pithiness kiboshing any attempt at a real smoothness here. It finishes trending dry, with a generic bitter essence exhibiting the most lingering fervour.
Overall - yeah, this one demonstrates what typically happens when you use sorghum, tapioca, etc as your malt base. The blackberry and rose hip adjuncts can only mask so much, and sadly they fall away much too quickly. Not particularly enjoyable to put back, I'd afraid to say.
Reviewed by roobtheloob from California
4.24/5 rDev +22.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +22.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I hate fruit beers. I would not consider this a fruit beer. Everything about this beer is different what is to be expected when drinking a beer. It was very well balanced and crisp. I found myself drinking more and more because it was so different in a refreshing way from what a beer is generally expected to taste like. For someone who has tried hundreds of beers all across the spectrum, from Lagers to Barrel Aged Barleywines, this was so refreshingly different I know I will be back to Ground breaker, either hugging the brewmeister or throwing money at the beertender.
May 26, 2015
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