Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence

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

Pours a very dark brown, almost black, with a hint of red (hold it up to the light). Small amount of dense tan/brown foam. Aroma of raisins and smokey roasted coffee, can also smell the alcohol. Taste is sweet and bitter simultaneously; chocolatey, coffee, and maybe a hint of licorice. Good stuff.

Pours a deep brownish black with a large fluffy light brown head that leaves cakes of fluffy lacing. Aroma is rich chocolate, roasted barley, caramel. Flavor is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, with a bitter chocolate yet sweet finish. The roast is rather apparent and helps the chocolate bitterness meld with the sweetness and balances things out quite well. Good brew.

pored like any other stout in color but I was very disappointed in what I thought was going to be a chocolate explosion taste was metalic

Dark brown pour with minimal mocha head. Aroma is Belgian yeast with lactic chocolate notes. Flavor is nowhere near as ’chocolate-like’ as I was anticipating, and the mouthfeel is a little thin to be ’indulgent’. Ends with dark chocolate and light coffee bitterness. Decent, but simply not to my liking in terms of a repeat. This seems to be the trend with Ommegang for me. Good, but somehow mediocre.

Pours a big black color which lets basically no light through. Has a nice 1-finger head that loofs like frothed chocolate milk and has incredible retention and lacing. Has a nose of heavy chocolate with big malty and yeasty smells coming through. Has a bit of smoke in there, combined with a faint touch of alcohol, that gives it an almost scotch-like smell. Tastes of lots and lots of dark, dark chocolate. Some dark fruits like figs and big, sweet cherries. Light coffee notes dancing around in there. Not much of an alcohol taste, but you get the feeling it’s pretty powerful at about the halfway point. In the mouth this feels smooth, creamy and wonderful. Like a goth girls well kept favorite black velvet coat. This is a pretty darn easy drinking beer. I think it would creep up on you though, if you didn’t watch yourself.

0.75l - Seemed a little too alkaline to me, like cocoa powder straight. The bitterness of the chocolate compounded with the hops was too much. A rare miss for these guys in my opinion.

2007 vintage- pours a very dark brown with a foamy chocolate milk like head. Nose- medium roast and dark chocolate. Taste- sweet dark fruits, candi sugar, bitter roast. Was expecting more chocolate- its noticable, but not in forefront. Getting somewhat oxidized. Finish has a somewhat sour/tart character and a bit chalky.

pours pitch black with medium tan head. aroma is deep rich red fruits, coffee, chocolate, malt. drinks bitter chocolate, roast malt, dried red fruits, smoke, and more malt. easy drinking but has some complexity. decent.