"Ommegang stands on an historic hop farm - our hop house ale combines the delicious aromas and flavors of Belgian-style ales with generous hopping, including dry-hopping. Enjoy with salads and seafood, or with spicy foods, pizza, burgers. Ommegang hop house is also a superb session-style ale."
I live! So it seems I haven't posted in about six months. I fell off the wagon. Time to get back to being a little more consistent with my reviews. I still have almost 90 that are in draft form that I need to complete. And I have probably a dozen empty beer bottles in my man-cave, waiting to get put into draft form. And let's not count the numerous beers I may have enjoyed at a restaurant or while visiting a brewery. I'll get to them all, in due time.
So let's start with a bottle of something that I have right in front of me. I'm expecting a second child and I've been told that my man-cave is switching rooms..to a smaller room. I'm expected to cull my alcohol stash by roughly 50% as I make the transition. It means I'll be doing a good amount of drinking between now and October. To that point, I just grabbed a random bottle, stuck it in the fridge, and these are the details.
The beer was poured into a Sam Adams perfect pint (I recently purchased some fancier glassware, this being one of them). It pours a hazy orange color. 3 fingers of off-white colored head. Soapy along the sides but more sea foam on top. Heavy sticky lacing on the sides of the glass in randomized splotchy fashion. Foam leaves a layer of film up top. I can pull in aromas of grapefruit, grass, yeast, and some light pine.
The bitter is strong with this one. More pronounced than I was expecting. Tastes of orange, grapefruit, some grassy notes, some yeast. Finishes dry. On the light to medium side in regards to mouthfeel, with low carbonation. At 6%, there's no noticable alcohol taste as it goes down.
I expected this to be sweeter and while I knew the hops would be a little more pronounced since it was dry-hopped, I didn't expect the beer to be so bitter. It might be classified as a belgian pale ale but it could easily pass for its American version. Might even pass as an IPA with some character. That said, it is different, but I don't find it to be different in a good way. I was able to finish the beer, but it didn't wow me and if I'm in the mood for a Belgian Pale Ale, I'd likely look in a different direction.
Grade: C+
Price Paid: $2.78 (12 oz bottle)
