Ommegang Double Wit

Formerly brewed at Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Cooperstown, New York USA

Brown pour huge tan head w/ nice lacing. Palate is well coated and lightly creamy, almost chewy. Aroma is banannas and clove some light breads and light other spices. Flavor is very sweet bannanna bread and spices covered in a light carmel.

Hazy blonde with a thin white head. Intense banans and cloves in aroma, pleasing the nostril. Intense smashed banans in mouth, with notes of ginger. Medium bodied. At EBF 2006.

Plenty of wheat character in the nose along with strong orange and coriander spiciness, some tannins, mild banana esters and a whiff of alcohol. Opaque, cloudy, milky white-blonde body is topped by a rocky white head that recedes ever so slowly and drapes the glass with lacing. Grainy, thick wheat base with assertive spiciness and a tart citrus character. Crisp carbonation to the dry light body. Sampled on tap at the Extreme Beer Fest 2006.

Hugely lacing white head is the star atop the beaufitul light golden, opaque body. Moderate spiciness along with well extracted wheat make for a pleasant nose. I suspect the use of less conventional spices, possibly cumin, which reveal an herbal freshness that you don’t find in most whites. The malt underneath is fresh, gently grainy and makes for a good foundation. Above, the yeast does a fair attenuation job, bringing out a few medicinal phenols and the tartness remains derived mostly from the wheat. Well carbonated, medium bodied feels fairly round while alcohol is not a factor. A success.

Sample at EBF 2006. Thick, yeasty translucent golden body with a lasting touch of head...banana, bitter orange, coriander and white pepper in the fairly typical but fragrant nose, kissed by a touch of brandy....the flavor is cointreau and vanilla and banana, quite luscious though almost syrupy for a bit....dries out nicely with hints of fennel and white pepper towards the finish. Don’t know if this is a one-off but I hope not.