Ommegang Rare Vos

12 OZ pured into a tulip glass...great hazy copperish color. Yeast and a little fruit in the aroma. Very nice bitter sweet taste w/ a touch of hops near the middle. Great beer!

Bottle. Pours amber with a thick white head. This is a good one. A little sweet, a lot of grain, a touch of sourness, a little banana too. Easy drinker.

Cloudy gold-amber color with a sticky white head. Nice Belgian lacing. Smell is earthy and grassy with yeasty dough, ripe fruit, and spices. Malty and spicy taste, with hints of apple, candi sugar, and grass. Quite dry and well-carbonated. Easy to drink.

Bottle. Pours orange amber with a beautiful thick head. Lacing sheets down the glass. Aroma is grainy and a bit earthy with the slightest hop aroma. The taste is sweet grain with a bit of a sour yeast that balance. The hops peek through midway to give it the mildest of bites. Great taste. The mouthfeel is a creamy carbonation, light, almost too light, but still smooth and bubbly. The finish is a slight hint of warming on the back of the throat. Very good beer. Will try cellaring this to see what may improve.

750, corked and baled. God, this is just a pleasant, easy-drinking Belgian with tight, refreshing tiny carbonation. Ultra-sessionable. Pours a slightly hazy medium amber with a thin tannish head that’s equal parts cream and fizz. Decent sheets of lace sweeping down the sides of the glass like an eggwash. The nose has a nice grain husk note to it, along with some slightly funky yeast and dust. Nice lightish body with soft tight tiny carb--very refreshing but still understated. Perfect balance that way. A little bit of orange tartness on the mid-palate, along with some soft grainy nuttiness. I wish this beer cost a bit less so I could just murder it by the case.

Bottle. Pours a light copper color with a nice white head. Aroma is yeast, spice, grain. Flavor is yeasty, light banana, carmel, spice. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation finished sweet. Good.

(Big bottle shared at Bishops Arms, Örebro) Shady pale copper color, white head. Belgian ale, yeast, spicy, phenolic scent. Spicy, yeasty taste. Spritzy mouthfeel, low bitterness.

A reserved pour down the center of the glass gives a moderate head that smells of bananas and yeast. The taste begins with a whole grain sweetness, then banana bread. The palate, however, is thin and watery. The carbonation seems right, it is just that the mouthfeel is so thin, and the wateriness does linger. It does not linger with water as badly as a Killian’s red, but it does make you long for just a little more hops to even it out. A decent beer, and one that could be good for friends that are scared of anything not yellow and macro, as there is certainly nothing terrible about it, and it is very drinkable.