Ommegang Rare Vos

750 mL bottle. Cloudy golden with a fluffy off white head. Slightly over-ripe fruit and yeast aroma. Creamy palate. Smooth apple taste with a note of sweet spice and finishing sweet and slightly sour. As it warms, it takes on some wonderful vanilla and bourbon-like qualities.

12oz bottle. Pours a nice cloudy dark copper with decent head, but only some lacing. Aroma is spicy and yeasty - kind of like a hefeweizen. First taste is tangy and spicy. Further tastes continue with the spice dominating. It’s a nice flavour, though perhaps not overly complex.

Rated 7/21/07. Pours a cloudy caramel color with a frothy white head that eventually settles to a thin film. Lacing starts off strong, but fades as the head does. Appealing aroma is made up of caramelized sugar, apple juice, pears, and the faintest hint of alcohol. The flavor is fruity, with ample caramel sweetness. Medium body that is not overly sweet. Nice carbonation. Solid brew for sure.

Pours a hazy amber red with a fluffy off white head. Big citrus fruit aromas fill the air wit hthis beer. Apples, plums, berries, candy sugar all make for a pleasant aroma. The taste is heavily carbonated, very fruity, with an effervescent kick to it. The flavors sort of dance on the tongue. Malty, but not syrupy, more of a fruity malt. The yeast they use is very profound in this beer. Sweet finish and aftertaste. Nice and light, easier to drink than the abbey ale.

Rare Vos is a murky, peachy brown ale with a large, fizzy, yellowish off-white head that leaves excellent lacing. The aroma is of apple, pear, and pineapple. There are also notes of flowers, grass, coriander, allspice and leather. Sweetness, sourness and tartness are all in the nose. In the mouth, it’s on the light side of medium-bodied. It is fizzy on the tongue, smooth and dry all the way down. The flavor starts lightly sweet, acidic, bitter and salty. Apples, peaches, pear and pineapple are very present. It becomes a bit sweeter before the short, dry finish. It leaves an echo of black pepper, diacetyl and oak... like I just drank a Chardonnay. This is so drinkable! It is never overbearing nor boring.

Poured golden red with lots of lacing. Good head followed the rush of carbonation and smelled of fruity malt. Tastes like a maltier belgian.

pours a nutty light brown in color with a nicely carbonated head. has a slight haze in the light, smell is flowery yeast, sweet apples, mild spice. well carbonated, good balance sweet at first but becomes more malty, spicy yeasts came out as it warmed. good beer from a ny. brewery.

Good reddish-golden hue with nice big white head. Nose is sweet yeasty, biscuty. Mouthfeel is light bodied...maybe a bit carbonated for me. Good malt and hops balance with crisp finish. Enjoyed it more when it was cooler (53-57 degrees) than warmer (even more carbonated).