Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence

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

On tap at Eli Cannon’s. Dark pour. Rich, solid flavor - tobacco, chocolate, hops, coffee, leather. Delicious and worth looking for!

Sample at J Gumbos Aug 2008 Indy tasting - Aroma is fruity with dry chocolate and incense. Flavor matches with some roasted dark malts showing up in the finish. Palate is dusty. Tasty enough but not something I would want to drink very much of.

Bottle from South Bay Drugs. Appearance was an appetizing dark black stout with fat head of foam. The initial nose is a dark roasted malt with minimal hints at chocolate or margarine. In the flavor there is a crisp roasted malt profile that surprisingly isn’t very strong or over bearing, however, the amount of chocolate present is insufficient to the title of the beer. I do taste a light background of chocolate milk but it’s just not enough than the caliber I had expected. Finish is dry and has a light creamy smooth palate.

A very delicious stout. Imperial stouts kind of trained my brain to expect every stout to be over the top boozy and undrinkable. This beer helps me remember that a stout can be drinkable and full of flavor without being too alcoholic. Aroma was OK. Bitter roasted malt and just a hint of chocolate. Pour was perfect. A deep dark brown with a huge pillowy tan head that looks like it could hold a penny if you dropped it on there. Taste was all roasted malt. Could not pick up much chocolate in the front but the aftertaste makes you feel like you just ate coffee crusted dark chocolate candy. Very nice.

This beer pours a dark chocolate brown with a milk chocolate head.Nose is of french roast coffee! Flavor is of a full bodied Ale with a tad of dark chocolate. great balance! Oh!mmegang! This is tasty!

Bottle shared with Freddy from Beverages for Less in Santee. Lots of chocolate and bitterness from the chocolate. Creamy mouth feel and very tasty.

bottle thanks to dyetube. black pour with a caramel rocky head. slight roasted malts with a bit cocoa/chocolate nose. very smooth on the palate with a nice roasted malt flavor and a great cocoa finish that comes out more and you drink it.

Aroma primarily strong roasted malt with cocoa present. Appearance dark brown with minimal, dark tan head. Flavor is merely okay for a beer of this style. Roasted malt flavors dominate at first. While chocolate flavors are present, they seem to be in the background. Mild biscuit flavor in aftertaste, and alcohol is quite discernible and almost seems to dominate. Mouthfeel is good: creamy with slight effervescence. In sum: I really wanted to like this beer, but after two 750 ml bottles over two sessions, I really cannot get into this one. Better the second time around, but I think think there are better beers of this type out there. Still, while average, flavor is not too burnt, which is admirable for beer of this style. Problem is that chocolate flavors subsumed by predominance of biscuity, alcohol flavor. Okay, but not great.