Ommegang The Dudes Oat Soda

Formerly brewed at Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)
Style: Stout
Cooperstown, New York USA

(BCTC, draft) Brown-black body topped by medium brown head. Aroma is medium sweet, milk chocolate, oatmeal, light roast, coffee. Taste is medium sweet, coffee, some chocolate, roast. Light-medium body, light acidity.

Draft @ BCTC. Dark brown, thick, rich and creamy looking pour with a sizable medium to dark brown head on top. Vibrant, fresh and pronounced nose of creamy oatmeal, chocolate and dry roast, lightly sweet in the nose as well. Over-carbonated and somewhat thin on the palate, with a heavy amount of coffee, much more than in the nose, along with the oatmeal and chocolate notes, but compared to the nose it’s pretty disappointing... thin, plastic-like chocolate tasting completely separate from the oatmeal, compared to a more integrated nose. I wanted to like it, it smelled great, but tasted flabby and messy.

[BCTC 08] Poured a dark brown / red color with a medium sized tan head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malts, some coffee, light oats, chocolate, and some vanilla. Taste was astringent, not very creamy, some oats present, with more roasted malts, vanilla beans, vegetal, and cocoa. Thinner mouthfeel.

bctc 08. Pours a nice deep dark black with a fizzy moderate head. aroma is very toasty, nutty, tons of roasted and chocolate malts- just a straight up nice stouty smell. Flavor is a bit thin in the middle- more toasted and chocolate malts, light smoothing effects from some oats- creamy flavor but the body and finish seemed a bit overcarbonated thin and fizzy to me. Ok overall- I didnt understand the point of this beer other than the name and relation to the theme of the fest- no real belgian character at all.

Tap at BCTC. Pour is near black with a decent head. The aroma is intensely roasty, loaded with coffee and peanut. Tons of carbonation kind of masks the flavor, but there are some remnants of coffee rinds, and oat. The "soda" tag is pretty accurate here. Disappointing.

On tap, BCTC 2008. Pours a cloudy dark brown body with a minimal beige head that faded fairly quickly. The nose is a bit thin with roasty malt, coffee, some chocolate, but not a whole lot of oat character. The flavor is pretty thin and watery with dry roasted malt, coffee, and some yeast that dulls everything a bit. Short, watery finish. Mouthfeel is thin with light fizzy carbonation . Pretty disappointing all in all.

Draft @ BCTC. Pours a murky, chocolate-brown color; light tan head with patchy lacing. Loads of roasted coffee (beautiful note here), bitter chocolate, and cocoa. Highly carbonated. Loads of green, roasted coffee, vegetal / stalky notes, and watery chocolate malts; disappointing concentration in the mouth following the fine coffee character in the nose. Medium mouthfeel: toasty grains, wet malts, chocolate, and light cocoa; some lingering, light stalky vegetal notes.

Draft @ BCTC. Pours dark brown with a tean head. Nose of roasted malt, chcoolate coffee, oats. Flavor is very similar. Medium bodied. Pretty good.