Ommegang Rare Vos

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

(USA) Courtesy of AFI96, Thanks dude!! Brown / Amber color with a med-tan head. This brew has a spicy / vanilla / flowery aroma, with a carmel / malty taste. The mouthfeel is wonderful, rich and smooth !!! If you want to go belgian style this would be a good start.

Bottle pours a cloudy honey amber color with a billowing white head. Aroma of malt, dried fruit, and spices. Nice flavor that is sweet and yeasty. Smooth and enjoyable.

Bottled. Poured cloudy amber with a tan, foamy head. Nose was spice, yeats, and fruit (pears). Flavor was malty, spicy, with hints of banana and clove. Finish was mildly hoppy with a carbonated mouthfeel.

Cloudy amber, reddish colour with a white head. Malty, sweet and fruity aroma with a light yeasty and floral note. Malty, fruity sweet flavor with a light dry yeasty finish.

Fantastic murky red-amber colour. Starts off with a bubbly head that retreats quickly. Scent is amazing...apple with perhaps some caramel. One of the best smelling beers I’ve tried in a while. Taste basically follows the description - fruity, malty and slightly spicy. Tangy zip of carbonation and a tinge of bitterness. I didn’t have huge expectations for this beer, but it turned out to be really good. I’ll be recommending this to friends.

The bottle uncorkis with a gunshot report, and my awakened canine growls furiously with sleepy mock menace. Cognac-colored fluid fills my tulip, as clear as polished gems; a mere smattering of lazy bubbles condenses into a large-beaded off-white froth that compensates with defiance what it lacks in stature. Curiously feeble lace swoons exhaustedly. The beer’s scent consists equally of "tropical" aromas- melon, lychee, almond, vanilla, coconut- and toasted pinenut malt. Angular flavor showcases malty, papery, tart, and keen clove-y facets. A wild blackberry and ryebread finish glides toward the breadcrust, banana, barnyard, and extreme seasalt aftertaste. Although mediium-bodied, the liquid proves as sharp as razor blades with biting acidity and invisible carbonation. I would summarize this libation as an evenly-matched, surreal beachside battle between too-toasty malt and tart brierfruit, with suntan-lotioned livestock mooing on the sidelines... promising in pieces, yet utterly confilcting in its entirety.

Color: Brown ale with amber tones. Off white foamy head and heavy lacing. Nose: Nice malty nose. A pleasant toasty graininess and a touch of soft grapefruity hops in the back. Palate: Velvety texture and medium weight. Caramel, toasted grain, pleasing malt. Touches of candyish sweetness and vegetal notes on the finish.

On tap at the Colgate Inn. Pours an orange-amber with a small white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, some light flowery hops. Reminds me of a witte- lots of spices (corriander and anise star)and light citrus fruits. Finish of a buttery roll, kind of salty (but in a good way). A great session. Very drinkable.