Ommegang Rare Vos

Bottle (75 cl) at Haket, Göteborg, Sweden. Beautiful amber to mahogny colour, large off-white head. Fruity aroma with peaches apricots, and tangerine, some spicy notes as well. Medium bodied and smooth mouthfeel. Good balance, perhaps a bit short finish.

Amber-red in the glass. Nice head lasts a while. Bready in the taste and body, which I like. Some spiciness, too; coriander notes, maybe. Nicely balanced beer, and another fine product from Ommegang.

Pours amber in color with reddish hues. An impressive two inch head forms on the pour and manages to stick around for awhile. Smell is yeasty, bready and a bit musty. Taste is more of they yeasty and bready experience, but there’s a slight metallic flavor as well. Not sure where that is coming from. Very highly carbonated. I’ll let this one sit for awhile and warm up, hopefully the carbonation will die down a bit. Decent beer, but not overly complex by any means.

Bottle at Bishops Arms, Norrköping, Sweden. Hazy orange/apricot color, white head. Malty aroma, yeasty and with fruity notes. Malty, yeasty flavor, some spices, some bitterness. Decent beer, but nothing I will remember forever

(Bottle). Fruity aroma. Hazy honey amber color with medium head. Flavor is moderately sweet, full of subtle fruits, and with nice well balanced finish.

Bottle. Pour reddish amber with tight bubbly thin head. An alright aroma, really nice yeastiness and caramel feel, a bit spicy. It’s ah-aight.

Tap at Stumbling Monk. Pours a nice amber orange with a decent head. Aroma was fruity with lots of yeasty esters and some fruity malts too. Yeasty and spicy up front. Clove, banana, caramel, toasted malts. Finishes with a pleasant fruitiness. Easy drinking, medium sweet, nice carbonation.

750ml bottle. Refined aroma of burnt toffee, pear, and brown sugar. Poured a clear medium orange color. The head was off white an reduced quickly to a thin film. There wasn’t much lace to speak of. Light to medium bodied, effervescent, and dry. I tasted toffee, clove, and toasted bread. There was also a splash of white wine. Pretty good stuff.