Chicagoist's "Beer of the Week:" O"Fallon Smoked Porter

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Sep 3, 2008 6:00PM

There are a slew of breweries we've never covered for "BotW." As we face the final four months of the year, we're going to remedy that. A Saturday afternoon running errands and checking out friends' bands at street fairs ended with us at our Zero Point for purchasing beer: Lush Wine and Spirits in University Village. We placed dibs on some Three Floyds Moloko when it arrives (hopefully in time for next week's installment) and headed for the beer cooler. For some reason, this has been a year of porters for your humble Chicagoisto. Naturally, we gravitated to a bottle of O'Fallon smoked porter.

This gold medal winner at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival is brewed with 63 percent Bamberg Smoked malt. This gives the beer a smooth chocolate flavor to balance the smokd malt and hops. O'Fallon Smoked Porter also has a medium body and deep black color, with a coffee-colored head. It's a really good beer to serve with, say, grilled lamb burgers.

We like a lot of the O'Fallon selections, but the smoked porter, Chicagoist's "Beer of the Week," is our favorite by far.