Ommegang Ommegeddon

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

Clear gold with an excellent head. Medium bodied. Sweet and bitter, with a strong tart flavor. Not quite as good as Biere de Mars, however. Quite metallic when served ice cold. Let it warm some.

75cl bottle from Willow Bend Liquors (Tampa, FL). Initially purchased in August, 2007 and aged for 8 months at 40-45 degrees. Rated on 3/23/08. Pours a clear golden with thick frothy white head. Good head retention. Smells strongly of spice, pepper, hops. Small hint of vanilla. Flavor is interesting. Slightly bitter, complex vegetable-spice notes with hints of flowers. Hints of aged cheese and spice on finish. Medium-bodied.

750 ml bottle. pours a deep golden with a nice size white head, in which a solid lacing holds well through the glass. some spice in the aroma, but mainly yeast and citrus. solid hop presence... you can definitely tell they dry hopped this one. medium body, even over the palate... lots of lemon and some spice. nice finish.. the spice comes through the most on the finish. not as funky as I thought it would be..... nice, but not worth the price tag.

THOUGHTS: Not as funky as I was expecting. I usually don’t look for funk in a beer, but I was kind of in the mood. A nice beer, but not great. The dry hopping is nice twist for the style. Gets more funky as it warms. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a hazy, golden yellow with a small white head that mostly diminished. The aroma was light hops, light to moderate dough and cheese yeasts, white wine along with a slight fruitiness. The initial flavor was lightly sweet and bitter an moderately acidic; while the finish was lightly sweet and acidic, moderately to heavily bitter and sour with an average to long duration. There were white wine flavors then a lot of yeast and hops. The light to medium body was dry with fizzy carbonation and a light astringen and sort of metallic finish.

The aroma is similar to an unblended lambic very tart and and haylike and then somewhat like a tripel. It pours a very cloudy orange with a one finger white foamy head. The flavor is very bitter, at first i get lemons and oranges very citrusy finishing with a nice hop bitterness all the while being extremely tart and dry this is one funky ale right here!

It was okay until it warmed up. Then it became much better. The funk would not have been detected had I not known about it by the label. Overall it was well spiced and quite drinkable.

I’m sorry...I love Ommegang but this is not a winner. Straw color, next to no head, maybe a little lacing. Weak aroma of fruit. The flavor was that of overripe fruit (and I hate that flavor) with only a little brett (and this bottle is a year old) funkiness. Flat in the mouthfeel and just rather sickly sweet through and through. Talk about a major disappointment!

Thanks to Eric for this one. Cloudy yellow body. Aroma is funky, bretty, cheesy, and has a putrid ammonia/cat piss character. Flavor is light brett, honey, and yeast. Cool name though.