Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence

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

Pours thick and black. Thick foamy head with decent retention. Great lacing. Looks like a cappuccino in a pint glass. Big dark chocolate roasty aromas. It lives up to the chocolate indulgence name. Light bitterness. Definite coffee hints Feels very smooth, with moderate carbonation. VERY drinkable. I don’t see myself getting tired of this one.

Draft. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate and light coffee. Flavor is well balanced roasted malt with cocoa - neither is overwhelming as is common with chocolate beers. Fantstic chocolate stout!

I understand some of the lower ratings from the top raters. In my tasting notes I said that it was "too easy to get something like this right" and it is. Sweet and bitter from a huge slam of Belgian chocolate, under hopped so the hop bitterness won’t compound the chocolate bitterness. Opaque brown, little head. Great mouthfeel. Just too easy to enjoy and too easy to drink. Low difficulty factor, but nicely restrained alcohol content.

A deep dark stout with a thick lacing dark moka head. A durty dusty chocolate aroma, with a bit of sweet milk and nutty notes. In mouth, a good pungeant stout with metallic notes, bready yeasty notes. Not bad, but not excellent. Bottle bought at CJs, Potsdam, late 2007. Tasted Nov. 2008

Pours black with a nice thin, tan head that fades fast. Aroma is mostly chocolate with some dark malt notes hidden behind, some sweet caramel and toffee notes in there as well. Flavor is a moderate strong semi-sweet chocolate up front moves into a more bitter roasted malt middle that accents the chocolate very well and finishes slightly yeasty with some light prune/raisin flavors. Mouth feel of the beer is a bit lighter than what I was expecting but it feels decent through the tasting. Overall the brew is good and chocolate does stand out in the tasting but the packaging makes it appear it bit better than what it really turns out to be, unfortunately.

Pours black with a deep tan three-finger rocky head that slowly dissipated to a solid film and left thick rings of lacing. Big smell of chocolate malts and roasted coffee. Bittersweet chocolate flavor is strongest on the tongue, but is accompanied by generous amounts of smoked wood, espresso, and, if you search for it, dark fruit. Full bodied, not much carbonation, and the bittersweet chocolate lingers.

Pours black with a tan head... Brown sugar and chocolate flavor initially with a sort of tobacco flavored finish.... Not a huge fan of the belgian style chocolate stout... Roasted malts are kind of overpowered by the brown sugar and pruny sweetness characteristic of the belgian beers... Decent though

Pours black with tan head. Aromas of roasted malts and chocolate with some coffee. Similar flavors with some acidity and tartness. Medium to full body with moderate carbonationand a creamy mouthfeel.