Tonight's beer: Ommegang Art of Darkness
Dark bread, semi-sweet chocolate, leather, earth, tobacco, peat, dark baking spices like allspice and cloves, vanilla. Fruitiness that is distinctly cherry-like, but very dry and packing impressions of raisins, plums, and figs. A touch of caramel sweetness, then earthy-grassy-spicy bitterness unfolds, enfolding the palate. Somewhere, there's some juicy acid adding sparkle.
The beer is very light-bodied, massively carbonated, astonishingly drying. Seriously, there's zero hint of the 8.9% ABV. Some stickiness on the very back of the finish. Some gentle tartness throughout, connected to the sparking acidy juiciness.
Oh. My, Gawd. So complex, intense, integrated, drinkable. Almost overwhelming. Clearly brewed by people with enough clues to fill a good-sized warehouse. Better than many I've had in the style from actual Belgian breweries. Stupidly awesome—a big-time winner from Ommegang.
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| Ommegang Art of Darkness |
Dark bread, semi-sweet chocolate, leather, earth, tobacco, peat, dark baking spices like allspice and cloves, vanilla. Fruitiness that is distinctly cherry-like, but very dry and packing impressions of raisins, plums, and figs. A touch of caramel sweetness, then earthy-grassy-spicy bitterness unfolds, enfolding the palate. Somewhere, there's some juicy acid adding sparkle.
The beer is very light-bodied, massively carbonated, astonishingly drying. Seriously, there's zero hint of the 8.9% ABV. Some stickiness on the very back of the finish. Some gentle tartness throughout, connected to the sparking acidy juiciness.
Oh. My, Gawd. So complex, intense, integrated, drinkable. Almost overwhelming. Clearly brewed by people with enough clues to fill a good-sized warehouse. Better than many I've had in the style from actual Belgian breweries. Stupidly awesome—a big-time winner from Ommegang.
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