Ommegang Witte

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

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

750 mL bottle. Translucent yellow-orange with a thick, sticky head. Aroma is malt, yeast, and sweet orange. These tastes carry through in the flavour, which is a little sweeter than I’d like. There’s some spice in there as well. It’s heavily carbonated, and a little thin. There are better examples of the style.

A cloudy light amber yellow with a decent head. Aroma is not strong, wheaty, plenty of lemon tone (but that may have come from the lemon provided with my drink). Flavor is typically wheaty and malty, with a strong citrus overtone and just a hint of bitterness. A nice smooth wheat ale.

Bottle. 750ml. Pours a lightly hazy golden color with small white head. Aroma is yeasty with a hint of citrus. Light in body with fine carbonation. Flavor is tart citrus, mostly lemon with only a hint of spiciness to it. Some spice lingers on in the finish though. Very nice.

Light grainy aroma. Cloudy pale golden color with a large head that quickly dissapates. Complex taste of light nuts, vanilla, and coriander. Sticky palate.

bottle. nice light yellow pour with good white head. subtle nose and taste. bananas.

750ml bottle served in my NB snifter. Aroma is sharp wheat, bitter orange, earthy, yeasty, and a bit tart. Very light color with a small, but persistent head. Initial mouthfeel is both soft and tart with citrus flavors (lemon, orange) and a nice wheatiness followed by the earthy/citrusy coriander flavor. The finish is moderately tart with some lingering earthy/citrus notes. A nice witbier, quite subtle and easy drinking.

12 oz bottle poured into a wiezen glass. Pours straw yellow with a huge white fizzy head that stick around for the whoe beer eaving pretty good lacing. Looking through the glass it is hazzy. The aroma is at first yeasty followed by a fairly strong coriander aroma. Taking the first drink the body is light to medium, the initial flavor is a very slight coriander taste along with a hint of orange foowed by a spicy/yeasty flavor. After the beer is down there is a hint there is a hint of coriander and spicyness on the back of the tounge along with a orange aftertaste. In the flavor there is a nice wheaty/straw flavor to back everything up. The texture is watery and creamy with lively carbonation.

Pours out a cloudy yellow color with a large white head. aroma is sweet and spicy. flavor is very much the same with hint of citrus throughout. If is a nice witte, but it seems hoeggarden is the apex if wittes for me.