The story Adam has at beernews.org that Belgian brewery Duvel will produce Brewery Ommegang beers otherwise made in Cooperstown, New York may seem familiar. Duvel briefly brewed Ommegang beers five years ago when demand outstripped capacity.
Back then I took samples of Ommegang Abbey Ale brewed both in Belgium and New York to a local brewpub and asked customers there on a Sunday afternoon most of whom, it turned out, had never tried anything from Belgium or even inspired by Belgian beers if they could tell the difference. I repeated the experiment twice more, including with friends as interested in wine as beer, then hard-core beer savvy types who viewed the test as a challenge.
I’ve added the story that resulted to the library.
***SPOILER ALERT-SPOILER ALERT*** For those who don’t want to bother with the click the results are summarized below.
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Quick summary of the results: Just over half (that’s chance) correctly picked out the odd beer in a “triangle tasting,” and 57 percent preferred the Cooperstown version.