Friday, March 11, 2005
Hennepin On-Draft Starting Tomorrow
Probably the best American-made Saison is Ommegang's Hennepin. Absoultely wonderful.
Well, it's going to be on-tap now. This is interesting, because in my general experience, Belgian and Belgian-style beers are better from the bottle than on-tap. There is something about aging a beer in a bottle with living yeast which tends to add complexity and depth to a beer.
The brewer for Ommegang pretty much said as much at a talk at BeerAdvocate's Belgian Beer Fest. But it seems that will be keg-conditioning the beer. I assume that is similar to bottle-conditioning beer.
Whatever the case, I'm going to try the beer on-tap.
Probably the best American-made Saison is Ommegang's Hennepin. Absoultely wonderful.
Well, it's going to be on-tap now. This is interesting, because in my general experience, Belgian and Belgian-style beers are better from the bottle than on-tap. There is something about aging a beer in a bottle with living yeast which tends to add complexity and depth to a beer.
The brewer for Ommegang pretty much said as much at a talk at BeerAdvocate's Belgian Beer Fest. But it seems that will be keg-conditioning the beer. I assume that is similar to bottle-conditioning beer.
Whatever the case, I'm going to try the beer on-tap.
