{"id":5509,"date":"2011-01-05T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2012-11-01T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:39:06","slug":"when-duvel-brewed-ommegang-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/when-duvel-brewed-ommegang-round-1\/","title":{"rendered":"When Duvel brewed Ommegang, round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story <a href=\"http:\/\/beernews.org\/2011\/01\/brewery-ommegang-to-close-temporarily-gnomegang-coming-in-april\/\">Adam has at beernews.org<\/a> that Belgian brewery Duvel will produce Brewery Ommegang beers &#151; otherwise made in Cooperstown, New York &#151; may seem familiar. Duvel briefly brewed Ommegang beers five years ago when demand outstripped capacity.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#151; most of whom, it turned out, had never tried anything from Belgium or even inspired by Belgian beers &#151; 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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/a-tale-of-two-ommegangs\/\">added the story that resulted<\/a> to the library.<\/p>\n<p>***SPOILER ALERT-SPOILER ALERT*** For those who don&#8217;t want to bother with the click the results are summarized below.<\/p>\n<p>******<br \/>\n******<br \/>\n******<br \/>\n******<br \/>\n******<\/p>\n<p><em>Quick summary of the results: Just over half (that&#8217;s chance) correctly picked out the odd beer in a &#8220;triangle tasting,&#8221; and 57 percent preferred the Cooperstown version.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story Adam has at beernews.org that Belgian brewery Duvel will produce Brewery Ommegang beers &#151; otherwise made in Cooperstown, New York &#151; 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 &#8230; <a title=\"When Duvel brewed Ommegang, round 1\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/when-duvel-brewed-ommegang-round-1\/\" aria-label=\"More on When Duvel brewed Ommegang, round 1\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[336,499],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","tag-duvel","tag-ommegang-abbey-ale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1qR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10162,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/10162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}