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Ommegang Rare Vos

Ommegang Rare Vos - Belgian Ale

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 Percentile 
91
overall
Brewed by Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Ale

Cooperstown, New York USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9473.56/5.03.56/5.06.5%95.6Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Rare Vos is flemmish for "Sly Fox," and the name of one of Brussels’ great cafes. It has a sweetly fruity malt character and yeasty spiciness. A fine dose of yeast permits the beer to mature and mellow in the bottle.
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 keepersj12 (774), Sicklerville, New Jersey, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
Jul 3, 2007  
Very good ale. Nice and fruity aroma. Taste is slightly sweet. Looks good, tastes good. Excellent for a summer evening.


 thenick (742), North Bellmore, New York, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/514/20
Jul 3, 2007  
Pours a nice, golden red color with an off-white head. Aroma is spicy, and taste is very smooth with a nice hint of spices and fruits such as plum. Good, solid beer.


 TheBeerOrg (1563), Kentucky, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 3, 2007  
Pours dark reddish amber with a thin, mostly maintained light tan head. Aroma of phenolic apple and spice, with notes of toffee plums and dates. Taste is sweet and yeasty with prominent phenols creating notes of clove. Notes of plum, spice, and gingerbread. Mouthfeel is full bodied, slightly sticky with lively carbonation. Improving this beer would require better attenuation and more esters.


 jujubeast6000 (772), Houston, Texas, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/511/20
Jul 2, 2007  
(750mL bottle): Pours a cloudy brown color, small whitish head, fizzy but diminishing very quickly. Very floral light sweet aroma. Sweet fizzy taste, clean aftertaste. Floral taste, some acid. Warming up....a little more even taste, not acidic.


 Glazed9884 (207), USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Jul 1, 2007  
xxx such a great brewery, pretty much everything they make is great, a good brew here


 nearbeer (1833), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Jun 30, 2007    Updated: Nov 5, 2009
Bottle. Cloudy amber with a large, lasting head. Aroma is spice, honey and fruity bubblegum. Taste is Wyeast Belgian Wit yeast, coriander, bitter orange peel and maybe some nutmeg. Palate is watery, light-medium bodied, flat and dry. Good beer, but there are many better Belgian Ales. Not real complex, tastes more like a brown-colored, hop-dry Wit.


 JMFG (1514), Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 21, 2007  
Cloudy dark amber color with a thick white head. Vaguely sweet apricot and yeast aroma. Yeast and fruit in the taste too, but a healthy malt presence balances everything out. A well-balanced brew, but nothing real exciting.


 tagz (334), USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/517/20
Jun 11, 2007  
(12 oz. bottle) pours a cloudy golden orange with a thick foamy head. this is what a beer should look like. beautiful. sweet light yeast aroma that gives the flavor a bread like quality. perfect amount of malt and bitter hops to balance it out. this is a complex but well balanced beer. nice crisp finish. the only downside was a slight boosey quality halfway into the glass. otherwise, an excellent beer.



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