I know I should have gone to the brewery. I know. I know I know. But I was on holiday and sick and I needed to save it up for the Baseball Hall of Fame because it's the year another sweet Expo enters and, well, I liked the Expos. I got the hat, OK? Let it go. Jeesh.
Zurr doesn't even seem listed on the site for Ommegang anymore. 6% Flemish Oud Brown Ale with cherries added. The cherries do seem a wee bit of a cheat as this all seems a little tiny (tiny) bit easy yet to have a competent Goudenband clone on the loose in North America is, you know, really good. It pours active lightly reddened light chestnut with a well held beige head. Cherry vinegar on the nose. With the cherry there is balsamic, drying oak and nod to vanilla in all there in a bright acidic sip.
Solid BAer respect.
Comments
Organic Beer Lover - July 31, 2010 2:15 AM
Lots of Flavors, Hope to try one by one. Will update the comments Shortly.
Jerkybill - July 31, 2010 7:35 PM
Having tried (nearly) all of Ommengang's offerings, I found this one to be too un-like a beer to me. The cherries added a too vinegary taste that to me lingered in the mouth too long. Had it been lighter on the cherry (appreciated, but took over too much of the aroma and taste) and perhaps more nods toward the oak, It would have been much better.