OMMEGANG ABBEY
This brew is a rich, thick, heavy brown thats only medium in the color range but has no opacity except slightly in the edges. It starts off foamy so the tan head is tall, then it slowly falls until its a thick, steady pillow on top. It rests there in that form for the remainder of the session, leaving patchy deposits of lacing in good quantity as it falls.
This is a Belgian that has the candy sugars in its complexity, but doesnt push them out too hard. Malt makes a strong, barleylike backbone to rest everything on. It has caramel and a touch of fruit along with dark earth (not dank). I let it rest because I know it should have more strength, and I think I was initially right that it was too cold. A light touch of easy booziness, some pepper, and something woody complete it.
Dark fruits and apple, nut, some leafy earth, caramel and toffee, gentle yeast, some wood, a touch of vinous dryness, and wellintegrated lightly alcoholic notes make for a fantastically deep, complex and wellconstructed beer. I think more of those sweet elements adding a variety of deeper sweet flavors along with the base notes and a bit more say from the yeast are all it would take to bring this from spectacular to perfect.
Crispness nips the tongue all the way, carbonation is even, and theres a nice smoothness to make an allaround wellbalanced mouthfeel.

(beeradvocate.com)