Ommegang Abbey Ale

Brewed by Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Cooperstown, New York USA

Serve in Trappist glass

UPDATED: AUG 8, 2007 Bottle...beautiful burgundy color -- one of the best I’ve seen. Full flavor with complex sweetness and a touch of bitterness. One of the best beers I’ve tasted.

This beer is so good especially when considering the price...it pours a very attractive red copper color, full tan head with good retention, complicated aroma, a layered and complex taste: fruits, raison, hints of chocolate, spice, smoke; a clean neat finish - if it was slightly smoother with a stronger finish it would have been a perfect score for me

This beer is HUUUUGGGEE. Aroma of lots of chocolate malts with caramel notes, definitely some roastyness as well. Pours with a gorgeous chocolate dark brown color with a fitting caramel fluffly, pillowy head. Tastes of god himself, chocolate malts, espresso, caramel, little bit of booze but it warms you in the proper manner a beer should. Wonderfully crafted beer from a quickly growing in stature brewery in my opinion. Solid, delicious beer

Really complex and wonderful. Pours dark and smells like plums & raisins. The taste is rich and like dark fruits, followed by a great yeastiness and a little bite at the end. This is thoroughly drinkable, warming and delicious. A treat, for sure.

UPDATED: APR 9, 2003 A fantastic American surprise as far as Belgian style Ales are concerned. It has a plethora of tastes that can only be described as vegetable with a taste that supplements the alcohol content which is just right in this beer. The aftertaste is equally as impressive. Fantastic overall.

Delicious. Good size brownish red head that even tastes great. Once you get to the dark amber liquid though, it’s a real treat. Taste of cherries was most prominent for me, but not overpowering. I did note the chocolate and caramel too. I got two of these in my beerswap, and will be buying an entire case very soon.

Had the “cave aged” bottle at Blind Tiger Ale House in Manhattan. Sixteen bucks. It’s a deep red with a nice thick head. I’ve aged this beer in my apartment before, and its usual flavor intensified then, but this takes it to another level entirely. The cave-aged version has a perfumey aroma and a much richer, fruitier flavor. It’s quite strongly alcoholic and very satisfying. Goes very well with chocolate. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Ommegang is an Abbey Dubble by style, and it is very interesting and delicious one. All of Brewery Ommegang’s beers are brewed with spices, and Ommegang contains spices including coriander, star anise, and even the rare African spice grains of paradise. The brewery likes to call this a burgundian beer, as it shares many traits of burgundy wine, and works exceptionally well with red meats, game, cheeses, and a number of dishes you would match a good burgundy wine with. Ommegang pours to a beautiful, bright, burgundy red color with a thick and creamy white head, and a good bit of carbonation. The nose on this beer is very impressive with lots of aromas of chocolate, malt, estery aromas of fruit, yeast, and peppery alcohol. The palate on this beer is complex and layered with lots of good sweet malt and chocolate flavors, plummy fruit, and hints of toffee and raisin. Ommegang finishes with more of those complex and delicious malt and fruit flavors up front, then ends with some good yeasty and peppery alcohol flavors that linger. This is a complex, delicious, very well done example of an Abbey Dubble, from an outstanding NY brewery. At 8.5% abv, Ommegang is the type of beer to share and relax with. As stated, it is an excellent beer to pair with a number of dishes, ranging from a cheese course, to meats, to a rich desert. Marketed in 750ml caged and corked bottles and 12 oz 4 pack bottles, Ommegang is well worth seeking out in markets where it is sold. If you ever find yourself in and around Cooperstown, NY, a tour of this beautiful country brewery is well worth the time and effort to find.