Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence

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

25.4 oz bottle. Dark brown with a slim, tan head and lacy strands. Nose is yeasty with faint cocoa. Starts creamy but yields to a medium carb. Taste is lightly tart dilute coffee, like the foam of a latte. Chocolate comes through in the end. Pleasant but quite restrained.

Black with a lingering tan head. Aroma is malty with a slight hint of dark chocolate. Flavor is malty, and a little bitter like an average stout. There’s a bit of a bittersweet finish to it as well. Chocolate flavors are subdued and hard to notice at first. I could deal with more chocolate flavor in this one especially with the name given to it. Generally, this is a fairly pleasant beer, but I was a bit disappointed in it.

Brown black with fluffy tan head. Malty brown aroma with a generically stouty and semi-bitter nutty taste. Cocoa seems a bit of an afterthought, and is rendered too subtle by the very vi-gorose carbonation.

Poured into proper Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence glassware; nice touch. Deep dark brown-black with a head of tan mousse. Malty aromas with firm sweetness plus the bonus of cocoa and roastiness. Mild yeasty tone in the rear of the flavor. Chocolate becomes quiet and shy as I go on. Dark fruitiness appears. Dry finish with a twang of yeast. Creamy feel. Tasty. Happy 10th!

750ml bottle. Pours a dark brownish-black with good carbonation and a nice mocha-colored head. Aroma is malty and sweet, with scents of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, and maybe a slight hint of hops. Taste is creamy and fairly full, with an initial flavor of chocolate and roasted malt giving way to a crisp, lingering finish of dark fruit, coffee, alcohol, and a bit of hops. A well-balanced stout ideal for winter weather.

A light and frothy head sits atop a marvelously mahogany brew with a toasty and sweet aroma. A milk-chocolate flavor predominates, without any of the typically bitter or dark notes of a dark chocolate; instead, the chocolate comes through without being as overwhelming as the Young’s Double Chocolate. Perfect as dessert following a delicious dinner of pork and braised cabbage.

(750ml bottle) Fluffy medium brown head atop brown-black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, cocoa/chocolate, some fruitiness, roast, light nut. Taste is moderately sweet, bittersweet chocolate/cocoa, some roast, light nut, fruitiness, Belgian yeast. Hint of alcohol warming in the aftertaste. Medium body, holds the alcohol well.

Aroma is that of cocoa nibs and nuts. Upon tasting, the nutty component becomes much more apparent, outweighing the cocoa. Good beer.