Ommegang Adoration

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

Cloudy dark amber with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and hoppy notes. Flavour had ripe fruits, caramel, roasted malt and chocolate. Sweet finish.

Pours a slightly hazy copper color with a tan head. Aroma is honey, vanilla, caramel, cinnamon, nutmeg, and some spicy hops. Flavor is honey, vanilla, toast, spice, nutmeg, cinnamon, and alcohol.

Poured dark amber, caramel, apple, malty, spicey, bready, little citrus rind.

Bottle 75 cl. Average fin bubbled off-white head that mostly diminished. Spare display of lacework. Light cloudy reddish color. Aroma of nutmeg, spice, coriander, fruit, mild acidic, hint of citrus feel. Medium to full bodied with a soft carbonation and alcoholic texture. Moderated sweet flavor with some acidic feel. Lingering spicy finish.

Bottle 75 cl. Pours a cloudy deep amber with a rich beige head. Yeasty, fruity nose - some overripe fruit. Solid body, fruity, lots of phenols, spices and alcohol with hardly any bitterness. 030110

Bottle: Pours a transparent dark copper mahogany amber with a frothy, spotty-lacing light tan head. Aroma of sweet dark caramel and biscuity Belgian malts with some floral clove and orange spice. Starts with good fullness and finely dissolved carbonation along with rich dark caramel sweetness well-balanced with earthy bitterness and holiday spice. Finishes drier and slightly warming. A pretty true to style and unique brew that should age for years to come.

Sampled on 1/1/10. This Belgian Strong Ale pours a medium orange golden brown from a 750ml corked and caged bottle. Medium sized tan foamy head, with good retention and nice lacing. The aroma is caramel malts, oranges, bananas, bread, cardamom, yeasty and sweet. A medium to full bodied Belgian Strong Ale. The malts are fruity and sweet, banana and clove, orange and coriander. There is a bunch of sugar like sweetness as well. The hops are earthy and spicy. The spicing is interesting, coriander, mace, cardamom, and orange peel are all noticeable and mix and match nicely with the sweet malts, if they weren’t there this beer would be way too sweet. Nice lively carbonation. Nice winter ale. Meant to be sipped slowly, perhaps in front of a roaring fire (be sure you have a fireplace!). Hides the alcohol very well. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet with some spices.

750 ml bottle, split with my fiance. I really enjoyed this beer, although proved a bit much for her. It pours a reddish oorange in color with a large, rapidly fading pure white head. The aroma is bananas, orange peel, and spices. It also has a very yeasty bread character. It has a full body, but isn’t heavy. The flavor profile, goes right along with the aroma, really bready, citrus, spices are very noticable. Alcohol kick in the finish.