Ommegang Rare Vos

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

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.

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.

(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.

Pours an iced tea color with a yhin white head. Aroma is fruity and malty. Taste is spicy, fizzy, yeasty. A little too carbinated for me.

Robe blonde dorée très claire surmontée d’une mousse blanche épaisse en dentelle qui persiste. Arômes légers de malt. Saveurs de levures, de malt, de blé et de houblon fruité.

Aromas of bread, yeast, spice, citrus. Hazy amber color with a white head that lasts awhile. Medium bodied, a bit fizzy in carbonation. Interesting impacts on lips and tongue. Light stone fruit, yeast, spice, malt, but hop is far down the line. The finish is mildly sweet and fruity. There’s a hint of bitter, but not much. After awhile I think some orange comes out.

Cloudy orange color, large tan head and subdued carbonation. Sweet honey, molasases, and orange aroma with bready overtones. Considerably less carbonated palate than others of this style and a medium thickness, this is a welcome change. A mature taste leaning towards bitter hops and a crisp finish. This is a different kind of belgium, and I like it.

750ml. Bottle $5.29 Sam’s Downers Grove Rare Vos is another I haven’t had in a long time but was one of my favorites. Pours a hazy amber with a glass full of quickly rising carbonation bubbles. A 1+ finger off white loosely packed head formed on the pour and slowly faded to a thick cap leaving lacing on it’s way down. Leaves thin spotty lacing. Good looking beer. Slight metallic twang starts things off but leads into a doughy yeastiness. Toasted grains abound along with a scent that reminds me of melted vanilla ice cream. Strange but true. Very mild sourness. This beer tastes as good as I remember it. Starts off with a solid dose of doughiness along with powdery yeast. Toasted grains in the flavor as well. Very soft spices that I can’t put my finger on right now. Nutmeg is present though, more so as it warms. A very well made beer. Medium bodied with a good amount of carbonation. Carbonation is prickly on the tongue and turns the body frothy on the swallow. Finishes fairly dry. Awesome drinkability. Lower abv lets you drink this pleasurably for as long as you can. This is still one of my favorites. I need to get back in the habit of buying this often. A great beer for a great price. 4/7/07