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Zuur
Brewery Ommegang
- From:
- Brewery Ommegang
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Flanders Oud Bruin
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 13.84%
- Reviews:
- 212
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 11, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 06, 2010
- Wants:
- 30
- Gots:
- 25
Collaboration with Brouwerij Liefmans
A beautifully made, carefully blended, and well-aged sour beer, (it is aged on cherries) made in collaboration with Brouwerij Liefmans of Belgium. Ommegang brewmaster Phil Leinhart went to the Liefmans brewery in Oudenaarde, Belgium, and worked side by side with their master blender to create a distinctive beer unlike any other. Complex, lightly malty, tart, ruby color, with just a touch of hops. (Zuur means "sour "in Dutch).
A beautifully made, carefully blended, and well-aged sour beer, (it is aged on cherries) made in collaboration with Brouwerij Liefmans of Belgium. Ommegang brewmaster Phil Leinhart went to the Liefmans brewery in Oudenaarde, Belgium, and worked side by side with their master blender to create a distinctive beer unlike any other. Complex, lightly malty, tart, ruby color, with just a touch of hops. (Zuur means "sour "in Dutch).
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Ratings by flagmantho:
Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington
3.97/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from 750mL bottle into a tulip.
Appearance: rich amber-brown hue with ruby highlights when held up to the light. Head pours a thick finger of creamy tan foam but retention isn't that good.
Smell: nice malty aroma with plenty of tartness. Malt has a strong caramel character along with a bright fruitiness which works well with the tart. I like it.
Taste: tastes like a sour amber ale. The malt is caramelly but the tartness is big and forgiving; I like this quite well. There's a bit of an aftertaste/after-aroma which reminds me of a fruity kids' breakfast cereal -- which, oddly, works for me.
Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a big carbonation and decent creaminess. I like it.
Overall: this is a satisfying Oud Bruin for me. Sure, it's a bit on the candy-sweet side, but it's big and tart like it ought to be and there is a nice maltiness in the back. Good stuff!
Jan 08, 2012Appearance: rich amber-brown hue with ruby highlights when held up to the light. Head pours a thick finger of creamy tan foam but retention isn't that good.
Smell: nice malty aroma with plenty of tartness. Malt has a strong caramel character along with a bright fruitiness which works well with the tart. I like it.
Taste: tastes like a sour amber ale. The malt is caramelly but the tartness is big and forgiving; I like this quite well. There's a bit of an aftertaste/after-aroma which reminds me of a fruity kids' breakfast cereal -- which, oddly, works for me.
Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a big carbonation and decent creaminess. I like it.
Overall: this is a satisfying Oud Bruin for me. Sure, it's a bit on the candy-sweet side, but it's big and tart like it ought to be and there is a nice maltiness in the back. Good stuff!
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire
3.75/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
750ml bottle from 2010.
Pours chestnut brown with crimson edging and barely a trace of head. Zero retention or lacing. Aromatics lead off with mild cherries and tart fruit. Medium bodied and slick. Tacky and barely carbonated. Lightly tart on the palate with some sweet malt and cocoa-dusted cherries. Finishes with a lingering tartness, a hint of chocolate, and fading fruit.
A pretty meek attempt at a Oude Bruin and the cherries are faint.
Jan 11, 2017Pours chestnut brown with crimson edging and barely a trace of head. Zero retention or lacing. Aromatics lead off with mild cherries and tart fruit. Medium bodied and slick. Tacky and barely carbonated. Lightly tart on the palate with some sweet malt and cocoa-dusted cherries. Finishes with a lingering tartness, a hint of chocolate, and fading fruit.
A pretty meek attempt at a Oude Bruin and the cherries are faint.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
4/5 rDev +4.4%
4/5 rDev +4.4%
Bottle: Poured a Deep hazy reddish color ale with a nice medium size dark foamy head with OK retention and minimal lacing. Aroma consists of tart and sour notes with light cherry and some easily identifiable oak notes. Taste is also dominated by tart and sour notes with light cherry notes with some oak notes. Taste is well balanced without much acidity and with some light residual sugar notes. Body is quite full with medium carbonation. Very enjoyable but I would take a Rodenbach Grand Cru over this one though.
Nov 07, 2014
Zuur from Brewery Ommegang
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
320 ratings
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