Ommegang Scythe and Sickle Harvest Ale

Brewed by Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)
Style: Specialty Grain
Cooperstown, New York USA

Serve in Shaker, Tumbler

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Pours a hazy amber with copious amounts of tan head. Nose is very fruity with notes of banana, pineapple, and coriander. The flavor is a nice balance between the fruits and the heavier malts without overly favoring one or the other. A nice beer that would please a wide variety of beer drinkers in my opinion.

Bob had this in his fridge. I almost paid big bucks for a bomber at one point so this was a nice find. Dark amber, a bit hazy. Spicy, yeasty nose, very interesting and good. Hefty full palate. Ry and spice is there, the sour balances this as I don’t detect much going on in the hops department. Very interesting and good. Dry finish.

Pours hazy copper. Aroma is sweet malts. Nice grainy malt profile, sweetness, spiciness, I can definitely taste the rye. Very complex very good. hard to explain what I’m tasting, but I love it.

Bottle at Monk’s Kettle. Pour is hazy amber with a huge white head and great lazing - super thick. Biscuity, straw, light rye, grassy, a touch of spice, herbal, citrusy, and light peppery aroma. Taste is biscuity, fruity, straw, grassy - very easy drinking and sessionable - light pears, herbal, and tangy. Medium body with soft carbonation. Easy drinking.

On tap at GABF. Pours with a clear golden hued body with a large and long lasting white head. Aromas are grassy and grainy, with light brown sugar, and some alcohol. Flavors are malty and grainy, lightly spicy, hay, fruity, apricot, floral. Very lively carbonation with a dry finish.

Large and rocky off-white head atop clear amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, spicy/pepper, bread/caramel, some orange peel. Taste is medium sweet, pepper, orange peel, bread, some spicy. Light-medium body, lightly effervescent.

12oz. bottle. Pleasantly complex aroma, lightly sweet and fruity with notes of golden apple, pear, melon, citrus, honey, light caramel, and a heavy dosage of spicy, peppery, doughy yeast, some hints of clove and banana here as well. Hazy light-medium orange amber color, with a foamy, lasting, large-bubbled head of white and plenty of thick lacing to boot. Flavor profile is gently sweet, fruity and spicy, with suggestions of lemon and spice from the rye, with a tropical fruit blend, estery yeast, faint caramel and touches of bready, grainy malts and faint herbal hop tones appearing late. Bitterness is fairly minimal. Highly effervescent, light and smooth on the palate, no doubt courtesy of the oats, with a medium body. Maybe just another generic Belgian-style ale from this brewer, but a well executed and tasty one.

Pours hazy, orange-amber with a huge, off-white head. Aroma is grain, rye, yeast, fruit. Taste is sweet, cherried, grains,...nice robust rye. Very good.

12oz bottle in a tulip. Pours deep amber with a lacy, off-white head. Aroma of caramel and pale malts, some spicy rye notes, and floral hops. Flavor the same, with a nice amount of hops and malts for a good balance. Average texture. Not a bad beer.

It poured an orange/amber color with a white head. The aroma was light maltiness with some yeasty spice. The taste was bready with a little rye and some grainy hints of tropical fruit and spice. Good stuff.