Ommegang Rare Vos

750ml bottle. Pours a cloudy amber-orange body with a two-finger width, beige, foamy head that dissipates quickly and leaves some nice lacing. Aroma is sweet toffees and caramels with a bit of an apple juice wheat smell. Some peaches, pears, apricots, nuts, toasted cookies, and a light yeasty earth. Flavor starts with some sweeter caramel malts before quickly moving into a peach/pear/apple cider with a touch of toasted toffee. The middle has a bit of earth with plenty of caramel and some nuts before yielding to a moderately fruity bitterness, cider, yeast, toffee finish. Very dry with a moderate lingering bitterness and some lightly toasted toffees, fruit, and a soft earthy spice. Palate is light to medium bodied with a light carbonation. Overall, a pretty solid beer all-around. I like the flavor in that its sweet, but moderately bitter and has a nice spicing/cider tartness. Very enjoyable.

Pours clear amber with a thick beige head. Apple and spicy wheat aroma. Taste is like apple cider but whith more smooth butter and not so much spice.

bottle. pours a hazy orange with a nice white head. very pleasant Belgian spice and lingering fruit aromas. lots of sweet and tart fruit. nice spice presence over the tongue. light slim body. tart citrus finish. very drinkable with a lot of flavor.

Bottle. This brew is very drinkable, with nothing glaring wrong with it but at the same time nothing jumps out in a good way either.

Bottle: pours a dark amber with a thin white head, aroma is malty with some citrus and yeast, taste is malty, dark fruit, mildly tart, spices, pretty carbonated as well.

In a time called four years ago, in a place called Iowa prior to the presence of beers from New Belgium Brewing a young man named Andy kept getting told about just how awesome Fat Tire Amber Ale was. How it was fruity but not too sweet, how it was smooth but full flavored, how it was just the most awesome beer. Andy, being one with an adventurous palate could not wait to try this "Fat Tire" beer that friends kept telling him of. Andy had built an imaginary beer in his mind, an ideal image of what "Fat Tire" might taste like. An imaginary beer that tasted nothing like Andy’s first sip of "Fat Tire". Years later upon his first sips of Rare Vos, Andy found what almost perfectly matched this image in his mind of what "Fat Tire" was to taste like. Rare Vos pours with a big head, not white, not tan but sort of yellow the beer is hazy with a nice orangeish gold color. The aroma has some metallic coppery notes right up front, but this is quickly followed by a sweet maltiness with some orange peel and a mild floral bouquet. The flavor presents a beautiful spicy hop character complimented by an orange peel like bitterness and a strong fruity malt featuring apples and pears, thoroughly enjoyable.

Sexy looking in the glass, the perfume matches. Candied orange rind, sweet malt, and fresh lemon spice. Very reminesent of the breweries other offerings (Prop. yeast nose). Succulent malt juiciness gives strength to the palate, refreshing finish of light hops and spice. There’s almost a slight winey sourness in the background. Very drinkable. 90

A little dissapointing. Had it on tap and it did not do much for me. Cloudy and golden. Not much finish.