Ommegang Abbey Ale

Brewed by Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Cooperstown, New York USA

Dark burgandy red like a fine leather reading chair. Nice head and solid carbonation. The aroma is sweet, apple-spiced, light ethanol and wonderful perfumes. The flavor is apple peel with a slight bitterness then sweet malt and champagne yeasty fruitions. Alcohol is present and accounted for, but not over-bearing. This is one of Americas best crafted brews and a great bargain. Its a Strong Belgian-American.

Beer pours (in Chimay glass) a brown-red light can penetrate with medium amount of off white head that dissipates leaving a thin film. Aroma is of sweet fruit, molasses, licorice (both cherry and black). Flavor is of sweet tootsie roll, cherry (with faint black) licorice. Not unpleasant at first, but gets unpleasant as it goes. Not tasty. No hoppiness and definitely not dry. No alcohol detected. Sampled at 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

Great beer. Tastes quite Belgian. It’s kind of hard to tell it’s American. It’s rich and complex, delicious, I’m gonna be buying this alot. I wish I hadn’t waited so long to try it. If you enjoy Belgians, you ought to like this.

Poured a dark amber to mahogony with a light beige head of small bubbles which dissipated quickly, but left a nice lace on the glass as sipping. Nice malty aroma with heavy caramel mouthfeel. Velvety smooth throughout with a slight tangy finish. I loved this ale and went well with a hearty steak.

Lovely looking dark brown/red ale with a frothy thick cream colored head. Smells like caramel and toffee, plum. Great flavor. Bursting with it. I can taste burnt marshmallow, toffee, alcohol. Tastes quite strong and I can feel it in my cheeks after just a couple of sips. Quite nice. I can't believe this is a United States beer. It makes me proud.

WHOA!! Great fruity aroma and prickly mouthfeel. Lots of chocolate and cherries appear as it reaches room temp. Apples, pears, cherries, bananas are all present in the body. Complex and smooth, no alcohol present at all. Very nice.

Burgundy, small off-white head, no lacing. A rather complex beer despite its weak aroma. At first it’s all about the caramel and candies sweetness, but soon spices and some sour notes (cherries) are added and then the caramel moves aside to leave room for the spices and it all ends with a peppery finish. Highly carbonated. The rich body and complex taste hide the alcohol very well. When transferring my handwritten notes I wondered why I didn’t rate it even higher. Ah well, perfect excuse to try it again.

Interesting beer. Nice deep dark red colour, with a nice dark cream head which doesn’t stay too think but does linger on the chalice. This is a sweet beer with some nice fruity overtones. Plenty of malt flavour and a touch of alcohol aroma but mostly just a good sweet belgian ale. Great finish, very easy to drink the whole big bottle.