Ommegang
Boulevard & Ommegang Team Up
Boulevard Brewing Company (Kansas City, MO) is prepping a fourth release in their collaborative series. This edition features a another brewery in Boulevard Brewing’s new Duvel Moortgat family, Ommegang.
Boulevard Collaboration No. 4 Spiced Saison was brewed at Boulevard Brewing, featuring their house yeasts. Spiced Saison was split into two fermentation tanks, one with Boulevard’s Belgian yeast, and one with Ommegang’s house yeast. The two were blended together during filtration.
Boulevard/Ommegang Collaboration No. 4 Spiced Saison will be bottled in 750ml bottles and draft for a limited time.
Style: Saison (w/ Sweet Orange Peel, Lemon Peel, Coriander, Grains of Paradise)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft (1/6 kegs)
Arrival: Late September, 2014
7.3% ABV
Previous Collaborations:
No. 1 – Imperial Pilsner, with Belgian brewer Jean-Marie Rock
No. 2 – White India Pale Ale, with Deschutes Brewery
No. 3 – Stingo, with Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project
Ommegang’s Next Game of Thrones Beer Bottled
Big Game of Thrones fan? The next installment in Ommegang’s series, Fire and Blood Red Ale is being bottled this week. Look for it at the end of March, 2014.
Ommegang initially announced the beginning of the Game of Thrones series in December, 2012 with the addition of Iron Throne Blonde Ale. That was followed by Take the Black Stout last fall.
Fire and Blood Red Ale features three different renditions of the artwork for the label depicting Daenerys Targaryen’s
(aka Khaleesi) three dragons – Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viseron.
pic via @breweryommegang
Ommegang Releases Second Game of Thrones Beer
Still reeling from the bloody ending of Game of Throne’s Season 3? There’s a beer to help that. Brewery Ommegang (Cooperstown, NY) is now shipping Take the Black Stout.
The follow up to Iron Throne (a blonde ale), Take the Black goes dark. Just like the show. This edition is inspired by the Night’s Watch, a beer meant to defend Westeros. The tree is where Jon Snow recited the Night’s Watch oath. Due to overwhelming demand, Ommegang doubled production of this release.
Style: American Stout
Availability: 750 ml bottles, Draft. Fall Release.
Area: See image below
7% ABV
Ommegang’s Hop House
Brewery Ommegang (Cooperstown, NY) sits on a historic hop farm, allowing the brewery access to fresh hops each season. That’s the inspiration for Hop House, a dry-hopped pale ale from the Game of Throne beer brewers.
The description of this new brew sounds suspiciously like their Belgian pale ale simply called BPA. We reached out to the brewery for clarification. Ommegang fans, be aware of the name in the meantime. We’ll figure it out.
Style: Belgian Pale Ale
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
6% ABV
Ommegang Gets Wild At Heart
Brewery Ommegang has been on fire lately. The second beer in the Game of Thrones series broke the internet this week, so let’s keep the trend alive shall we? A new wild ale is on the horizon from the Cooperstown, NY brewery. Wild At Heart features the funky and popular brettanomyces yeast.
Wild At Heart is an audacious new ale in our brewer’s obsession series. In a rarely-employed technique we use only wild brettanomyces yeast in primary fermentation – the very heart of the beer. The brett yeast imparts robust fruit flavors and aromas, and combines with Motueka and topaz hops to create uncommon tastes and aromas, Wild at Heart pours a rich amber hue with a full white head. Aromas include mango, pineapple, and passion fruit. Complex flavors present a touch of tartness, carefully balanced with gentle malt sweetness and subtle hop bitterness. For enhanced tartness, simply let the beer age.
Style: American Wild Ale
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA
8% ABV
Ommegang’s Second Game of Thrones Release: Take The Black Stout
Game of Thrones fan? Brewery Ommegang is prepping the second release in the iconic tv meets beer series – Take the Black Stout. This is the follow up to the Iron Throne, a blonde ale. The series just completed their third season.
A stout as dark at the winters that once engulfed Westeros, as robust as the men who swear their oaths at the weir wood tree. Chocolate and caramel sweetness are balanced by hop bitterness . Roasty, woodsy notes, and an earthy finish.
Style: Stout
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA
7% ABV
A Look At New York Limited’s Bottling Day [PICS]
The 2013 SAVOR collaboration teams up Brooklyn Brewery, Saranac and Ommegang to create New York Limited. The beer is a bottle conditioned white lager, brewed with a plethora of New York state ingredients including, lemon verbena, honey, state grown hops. Brewed at Brooklyn with a lager yeast, bottle conditioned with an ale yeast. Available to SAVOR attendees only, unfortunately. Check out this behind the scenes look at bottling day. Images: © Amy Sussman Photography
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- Bottles coming down the line
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- Inside the Brooklyn Brewery
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- On the bottling line
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- Brooklyn founder Garret Oliver does some bar tending
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- The final package
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- Cages
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- On the bottling line
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- Just corked
