Ommegang Biere de Mars

Cork and cage. Nice loud pop with the cork. Hazy golden pour with a large head. Aroma is big time Brett, must, attic, dust, tart, lemon, citrus. Flavor is funky, tart, attic, sour, with a nice spice profile as well. Nice bubbly mouthfeel.

Golden-copper with a fizzy white head, gone quickly. Grainy, musty, and moldy, light spice and fruit with almost no detection of malt.Fizzy, grainy flavor, fruit and bread with a slightly orange finish and lightly spiced with sugar. Too fizzy and short, and given the emptiness in the flavor, it’s rather bland.

Batch #2 October 2008 - Clear amber with a very fizzy rollicking and roiling light tan head. Basement aroma, dust and some moldering fruit. Flavor is a bit fruitier with medium to strong notes of brettanomyces. Some spiciness comes through as well as a pronounced bitterness. Fizzy dry attenuated mouth-feel. Pleasantly puckering. It needs a bit more substance to go along with the bacteria funk.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy golden orange with an off-white head. Aroma is sour fruit, a bit of soap typical for the style, hops, and some barnyard characteristics. Taste is light fruit up front, with a soapy/hoppy/barynard finish that really brings the whole beer together. I liked it very much.

Bottle. 25.4 oz. Pours slightly murky orange with an off-white head.Aroma of sour fruit, wheat, hops, hay, soil, and hints of lemon. Medium bodied. Moderate, sweet mouthfeel. Very good.

batch 002 from october 2008. deep orange/amber with a thick cream head. nose is dried fruis, slight cherry and a tart nose. very smooth on the palate with a flavor of citrus, dried apples and funk.

750 mL bottle. Pours a deep coppery orange with big offwhite head. The aroma is an interesting spicy lime with some oak, obvious brett, a little bit of leather, and a little bit of super-ripe berries. The flavor is rather dry with a sort of lime, oak, and lavender mixture, some spiciness, and a bit of earthy leather. The finish is nice and dry with plenty of brett character. A slight cheesy funk with some vanilla lingers into the aftertaste. A pretty tasty beer here.

750 oz. purchased at Mac’s on West Peachtree. A little expensive, but you only have one life to live! Haze orange/brown color. Head fades away fairly quickly. Tart apple aroma. Slight sweet fruit aroma as well. Somewhat of a pungent aroma. I like the sour aroma, but it is not incredibly nuanced. Interesting flavor. It is not that sour at all. There is a slight sour flavor, but it has a slightly sweet fruit flavor as well. I taste the brett only slightly which is a let down, wish it had more of a presence here. Slight spice at the very end. Not an incredibly awesome beer, but it has its moments. Beer is slightly smooth.