Ommegang Adoration

Brewed by Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Cooperstown, New York USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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GABF 2009. Pours sparkling brown with an average, frothy, off-white head, somewhat lasting with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel), average hop (flowers, herbs), heavy yeast (barnyard, earth) with notes of banana, bubble gum, plum, and brown sugar. Full bodied, creamy texture, average carbonation, and an astringent finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.

GABF 2009 notes: Beautiful label advertisement, unsatisfying result. Pours maroon brown with a lively head. Aroma and flavors reveal dried strawberry, plum, banana and peat. Finish contributes boozy flavors. The mid-palate flavors just hang around so sweet it was disturbing. There is complexity there, but it seems a bit clumsy. Perhaps some more age would mellow and improve Adoration.

pours a deep amber. Nose is spicy, heavy malt, yeasty, bready. Flavor is spicy, sweet malts, belgian yeast, banana, cloves.

(Draught) Pours a clear amber body with a small beige head. Aroma of raisins, grains of paradise, banana, and cardamom. Flavor of caramel malt, citrus, raisins, banana, red plums, grains of paradise, cinnamon, and cardamom. Interesting Belgian.

GABF 2009: Hazy orange/brown with a thick tan head. Spicy/Christmasy nose of coriander and orange peel. Spicy flavors too with orange peel and coriander again...medium to full bodied, clean..balanced..and quite nice for the style.

Pitcher pour at 2009 GABF. Pours a minimal head, over a clear reddish brown (SRM 15) body.....nose is heavy with cinnamon, ginger, allspice.....taste sweet to start then mild ginger, ending with a dried cherry, very spicy with sharp phenols dominating milder esters.....mouth feel medium, carbonation low. The nose promised more than tha taste delivered. Tasting 9/26/09.

GABF2009 - tastes kind of like three phils minus the kriek, with a crap-ton of wintery spices thrown into it, and a touch of orange peel to round it out - not too bad, but the spices are a bit much - it also gets a bit boozy, which adds to the overall warming character started by the initial smack of the spices - not bad, but ommegang makes much better.

Nice enough bu I just don’t need another holiday ale. Draft at Resto for NY craft beer week. Clear dark copper, white vanishing head, little lace. Sweet nose ... sweet malts, sweet fruit, sweet spice. Taste likewise syrup sweet on top of more sweet. Mouth just a little thick and cloying. Not my favorite Ommegang, not my favorite style.

On tap at RedBones BBQ in Davis Square. Pours a deep bronze with large head. Lots of citrus on the nose (orange peel) and spices. Flavor is very sweet with alcohol on the tongue but not in the finish, which is smooth. Recommended.

On tap at rnh with ThorTheViking. Pours brown with virtually no head once settled. Nose is light malts, candi, alcohol. Taste is cherry, dark fruit, Candied malts, and alcohol. Not my favorite BSA.