Ommegang Hennepin

Part of the 3 beer Ommegang 10th anniversary gift pack. Poured into the nice official glass that came with said gift pack, this beer is a pale gold color with not much cloudiness. The head is 2 fingers tall and just a shade off white. The foam is very soft looking but it manages to stick around nicely due to the streaming bubble columns from the bottom of the glass. Nice amorphous blobs of lacing adorn the sides of the container. Aroma is tripel-esque, but less boozy. Lots of bright fleshy fruit, some citrus twang, and some spiciness (Ommegang with a spicy beer??!). Taste includes lemony citrus rind, boozy apple, and unripe banana up front. Finish is lightly hoppy with some accompanying spice. Somewhere between witbier and tripel here. There seems to be a lot of carbonation in the mouthfeel but it’s not making me burp. Body is light and refreshing. Alcohol is only detectable with significant warming. Another quality Ommegang brew.

Aroma is of sweet apple, citrus hops (lime), light yeast, and spiceness. Pours with a large, frothy, white head with a very lightly hazed yellow body. Taste is sweet, buttery and fruity. Watery texture with lively carbonation.

Pours a pale, hazy golden yellow color with a good-sized white head. Quite aromatic with scents of herbs, lemon, alcohol, and yeast. Flavor isat first slightly bitter of hops, also yeast, slight malt flavor, and is quite light. Finishes in the back of the mouth with a slight taste of the alcohol and a little spice. 1 pt. 9.4 oz. bottle.

Bottle @ Yespr tasting.
[thank you, Yespr]
Pours a lightly hazy pale yellow. Nice stream of small bubbles reach from the centre of my glass towards an incredibly great frothy white head that leaves great blothy lacings on my glass. Aroma is lightly sweet, malty and subdued, but present herbs. Mouthfeel is crisp and light, but never thin. Flavour is initially a bit sweet, bút the herbal and spicy notes hit me well into the aftertaste. Super drinkability, only flaw may be a bit too much sweetness.

Pours straw-yellow with a thick billowy head. The aroma is a nice blend of floral hops and earthy yeast. The taste is lightly sweet with orange and apple fruits, and slight hop bitterness. The 7.7% ABV is only barely noticeable.

Clear golden with tiny head. Sweet fruity aroma with peach and yeast notes. Sweet fruity and spicy flavor. Ends sweet and dry.

750 mL bottle... pours a golden color with a thick white head that dissipates to a thin white head that stays throughout the beer. Aroma of apple pie as mentioned by other raters... definite notes of pie spices in the aroma. Dry fruity taste, with a decent dose of yeasty funk as expected in this style. Champagne like carbonation from the bottle conditioning. I don’t get the sweet taste that many have mentioned, more of a clove like dryness. A good beer to try to get the full array of flavors that you can get from just yeast and quality fermentation. A great saison.

What a great offering Ommegang has put together--do yourself a favor and give this one a shot. The pour is a hazy golden yellow, with noticeable carbonation and a medium/mediium-small head that dissolves very quickly. The aroma is very sweet--a bit of sweet grain and somewhat malty. There’s some sense of floral/fruity notes that resemble bananas with apple pie. The flavor is multi-layered, but incorporates all of the aspects of the aroma and adds a sweet herby taste along with more fruitiness, with ample carbonation to keep the sweetness light. The sweet/spice taste linger into the aftertaste and ths sweetness does leave a bit of a sticky mouthfeel. In the end, definitely something worth trying and something I’ll definitely keep on hand.