#charles duvelle

[snackpointcharlie]

Snackpoint Charlie: music from old places long gone, new places not yet discovered, and a few spots in between. 10pm EST Wednesday September 20 on WGXC, 90.7FM, streaming at WGXC.org, and podcast afterwards at all those old familiar places. In fact this week’s Snackpoint Charlie is already here and yours to keep at the link below, grab it and you’ll be glad you did

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PLAYLIST

1) El Fjer (Tangier) - “Early Morning Calls to Prayer” from MUSIC OF MOROCCO: RECORDED BY PAUL BOWLES, 1959 https://dust-digital.com/products/music-of-morocco-recorded-by-paul-bowles-1959

2) Hassan Wargui - “Ar Allakh” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycajSvKY_ro

3) Bixiga 70 - “Malungu (feat. Simone Sou)” from VAPOR https://bixiga70.bandcamp.com/album/vapor

4) Sapan Jagmohan (vocal: Salma Agha) - “Sote Sote Adhi Rat” from SISKEYAN https://www.discogs.com/release/3190185-Sapan-Jagmohan-Siskeyan

5) Sinn Sisamouth - “Angkalimea” from CHLANGDEN VOL. 115 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/obituaries/overlooked-sinn-sisamouth.html

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “17yrickz”

6) Ahouach Abrakad - “Ahouach Side 1” from VOLUIM 10 https://www.gofundme.com/f/psjn9p-morocco-earthquake-relief https://sudestmaroc.com/ahwach-the-amazigh-tradition-in-morocco/ https://hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ahouach-rare-recordings-from-the-atlas-mountains-in-aid-of-moroccan-earthquake-relief

7) Abdellah el Magana - “Kassidat el Hakka (The Poem of the Truth)” from KASSIDAT: RAW 45S FROM MOROCCO https://dust-digital.com/products/kassidat-raw-45s-from-morocco?_pos=1&_sid=428a3f6a9&_ss=r

8) Omar Souleyman - “Li Raja Behawakom (I Beg You, Baby)” from JAZEERA NIGHTS: FOLK & POP SOUNDS OF SYRIA https://sublimefrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/jazeera-nights-folk-pop-sounds-of-syria

9) Boussouar El Maghnaoui Et Belemou - “Tu Es Belle, Fidèle” from CHEB GERO’S BELLEVILLE HABIBI MIX #2 https://soundcloud.com/cheb-gero/belleville-habibi-mix-2

10) Ariel Kalma - “Chase Me Now” from AN EVOLUTIONARY MUSIC (ORIGINAL RECORDINGS: 1972 - 1979) https://arielkalma.bandcamp.com

11) Oskar & His Orchestra - “4” from THE APOLLO VOL. 38 https://madrotter-treasure-hunt.blogspot.com/2023/08/unknown-taiwanese-artists.html

12) สุริยา ฟ้าปทุม [Suriya Fahpathum] - “เผลอจูบ [Accidental Kiss]” from หนุ่ม น.ป.ข. [YOUNG N.P.K.] https://www.discogs.com/release/12123132-%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2-%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A1-%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A1-%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%82

13) Ho Lan - “Echo from Deep Valley 幽谷傳聲” from ECHO FROM DEEP VALLEY https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/ho-lan-echo-from-deep-valley-interview https://holan.bandcamp.com/album/echo-from-deep-valley-2

14) Maria Elena Silva - “Jasper” from DULCE https://astralmariaelenasilva.bandcamp.com/album/dulce

15) Senso di Voce and Henry Birdsey - “Tierceron II” from TIERCERON https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tierceron

16) Mort Garson - “Moon Journey” from JOURNEY TO THE MOON AND BEYOND https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-moon-and-beyond

17) Antonio Russolo - “Serenata” from FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED https://www.discogs.com/release/370353-Various-Futurism-Dada-Reviewed

18) Akanssa Sikirou - “Sakara (Benin)” from THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES DUVELLE 19) Musicians of Benin - “Cengumé” from THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES DUVELLE https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/590766-the-photographs-of-charles-duvelle-disques-ocora-and-collection-prophet

20) Deben Bhattacharya - “Jai Chand Bhagat and Babu - Bhajan (devotional song)” from PARIS TO CALCUTTA: MEN AND MUSIC ON THE DESERT ROAD https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/625798-deben-bhattacharya-paris-to-calcutta-men-and-music-on-the-desert-road

[tropical-blur]

Time to land on our imaginary island and take a timebreak at the resort hotel ! The idea for this volume was to create a sort of soundtrack for an imaginary retro resort utopia with the opening track from exotica maestro Arthur Lyman being the title theme. It's a volume filled with nostalgia as it tends to be listened as a mental projection from old memories of vacation times, with its (definitely non-tropical) final track by The Caretaker mixed with field recordings being its memory lapse and return to present time...

Thanks for listening ! Tracklist : - [unknown] - Ambiance plage, voix d'enfants, lointaines (field recording) - Arthur Lyman - Akaka Falls (reverbed) - Funcionário - Dolphin Bay Vacation - Unknown Me - Brazilian Space Agency - Orlando Kimber / John Keliehor - Garuda - Jon Hassell - Toucan Ocean - Roméo Poirier - Thalassocratie - Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Carved Stone - Yoshiaki Ochi - Birds Island - Andrew Pekler - Sunshower At Sandy Island - Michel Banabila - Woop Blip Blip - Steve Shehan - Caravan In Kachgar - Sacred Aviary - Field Study #3 - Finis Africae - Luna - Inoyama Land - Hotel Rafflesia - Cybe - The Moon Is Shining Above The Ricefields - The Caretaker - Moments Of Sufficient Lucidity - Charles Duvelle, Serge Ricci et Michel Vuylsteke - Oasis (field recording)

Listen here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhx6O0qi1Ts

[l-avis-de-klervie]

Comment expliquer le succès du magazine Gaze ?

À l’heure où de moins en moins de lecteurs consomment la presse papier, comment la revue Gaze réussit-elle à s’imposer dans le marché des revues ? Nous verrons que Gaze réussit à concilier des articles de fond sur les enjeux féministes actuels à un bel objet qui vaut une vingtaine d’euros.

Le succès de Gaze s’explique premièrement par la participation d’icône du féminisme français comme Nesrine Slaoui ou Elvire Duvelle-Charles. Ainsi, la revue se positionne au sein d’un féminisme intersectionnel qui permet d’élargir son lectorat à une population racisée et d’être promue via ces stars de l’Instagram féministe. À cela s’ajoute la volonté d’élargir au lectorat étranger par la juxtaposition des articles en français et anglais. La revue est épurée, aérée et surtout sans publicité, ce qui justifie son prix élevé mais lui accorde en même temps un gage de profondeur journalistique.

Concernant la forme de la revue, Gaze déploie un vocabulaire graphique ultra-contemporain en utilisant notamment des caractères typographiques fraîchement conçues. La page de sommaire éclate également les codes du sommaire classique; en témoigne également le positionnement du folio pivoté. Les habitudes graphiques ainsi bouleversées créent un plaisir par la surprise.

Gaze créé des contrastes forts, en témoigne les titres qui prennent parfois toute une page. Gaze joue également avec d’infimes variations : à chaque rubrique s’ajoutent des détails qui marquent le changement de sujet : des pages au fond coloré, le changement de fonte à chaque nouveau titre, le changement de couleur du texte courant qui entre en écho avec les couleurs des photographies et parfois même le passage du texte à la verticale -obligeant le lecteur à retourner la revue. Ces éléments sont possible grâce à la conservation des deux colonnes avec la fonte fixe. Cela ancre la lecture dans une habitude rassurante, tout en ajoutant de nombreux éléments surprenants qui rythment la lecture. Ce système se retrouve également dans le titrage qui fait coexister plusieurs fontes. De plus, certaines typographies se chevauchent (voir photo 1). Ce qui semble être accidentel titille et dynamise la lecture.

Ayant lancé sa formule d’abonnement annuel il y a quelques jours, Gaze semble bien décidé à continuer d’alimenter le lectorat féministe.

Klervie

27/11/22

2565 signes

[zef-zef]

Dogon - Annonce Des Funérailles (Funeral Announcement) from: Les Dogon - Les Chants De La Vie, Le Rituel Funéraire (Ocora, 1957)

"Funeral Party Music". Hopefully people are dancing and having a party when my time has come.

Recorded in April 1956 on the cliffs of Bandiagara by François Di Dio.

"First Issued in 1957, these recordings appeared on Les Dogon (SOR 1 & 2), a 12 page booklet with two (10") discs produced not for sale by SORAFOM (Société de Radiodiffusion de la France d’Outre-mer, what would later become Ocora). Later, the first commercial version came out with a 16 page booklet and one LP (Les Dogon: OCR 33) produced under my direction by Ocora. This album being out of print for years, François Di Dio and I decided to reissue on CD all recordings from both versions." - Charles Duvelle, 2011

[sublime---frequencies]

Listen/purchase: The Recordings of Charles Duvelle- Disques OCORA & Collection PROPHET by Disques OCORA and Collection PROPHET

[ozkar-krapo]

[rec. C. DUVELLE / C. ERNOULT / F. PÉRÉ]

"Envoûtante Afrique noire"

(LP. Disques BAM. 1975? / rec. ?)

[rizomecorp]

Charles Duvelle  - The Photographs of Charles Duvelle, Disques Ocora and Collection Prophet

Out @ Sublime Frequencies

[slysnakes]

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[charlessayer]

Ixelles, Belgique / 08-2015 Facebook | 500px | Instagram 

[werkboileddown]

Here, or

Charles Duvelle, called a “free electron of ethnomusicology” and an “untamed” ethnomusicologist, more humbly refers to himself as a “westerner with a microphone.” The legendary French ethnomusicologist, known for his development and direction of Disques OCORA, one of the most important record labels of the 20th century, lived in Indochina until age nine. His father was a colonial governor who romanticized France, the French legacy, and its history, and did his best to impart this fondness to his son. But when Duvelle’s family moved back to Paris, Duvelle was disappointed. He thought of this cultural capital as a poor place—dirty, cold, and colorless—and Indochina as a colorful paradise. Duvelle’s youthful contempt for western culture and interest in something else, something more colorful, reflects the dimensionality and transparency he brings to his recordings and photographs.

[dustedmagazine]

Various Artists—The Photographs of Charles Duvelle: Disques Ocora and Collection Prophet (Sublime Frequencies)

The back-to-basics impulse of punk rock argued that something had been better than what was going on right now, and as soon as they got the chance a lot of punks made roots-affirming moves. Likewise the work of the Sublime Frequencies label, which was recently the subject of a critical volume called Punk Ethnography, might be hostile to World Music Marketplace practices, but is not nihilistic. The Photographs of Charles Duvelle is a lavish tip of the hat to one of the original guys that did it right. Duvelle was a composer who fell into the job of organizing the chaotic African tapes collection of Radiodiffusion de la France D’Outre-mer, a government organ intended to spread French language and culture abroad. This led a two-decade run of recording music in Africa, Asia and the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans. 

Whenever Duvelle recorded, he photographed the participants. Often this involved setting the microphones up and the tape rolling and then snapping the participants. The music that Duvelle collected for Disques Ocora and Collection Prophet was traditional, and when taken together with the photos it becomes clear that Duvelle wasn’t just capturing sound, but society. The 246 images in this book show players mixing it up with celebrants in events that lasted much longer than the two to nine minute long extracts reproduced on Ocora LPs. The first CD that accompanies this book includes 13 tracks that were on those records. There’s a reed solo from Burkina Faso that sounds like Evan Parker; a chant by a young woman from New Guinea that sounds like cross between hog calling and a lullaby; and a marvelous rain of marimba tones from Guinea. The second CD includes three much longer tracks, 50 minutes from India and nine from Laos that yield fairly complete examples if Dhrupad singing, a fairly contemporary raga, and a mouth organ solo.  

Any representation of traditional music is a snapshot of a moving target, since even in the times and places that were untouched until recently by Western technology and commercial attention music is a malleable thing that changes to suit what’s required of it. Recording just means that we get a notion of what was going down in one moment. 

Bill Meyer

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Carl Sagan writes to Chuck Berry - 1986 Go - Johnny - go! The following music was included on the Voyager record. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement Java, court gamelan, "Kinds of Flowers," recorded by Robert Brown. Senegal, percussion, recorded by Charles Duvelle. Zaire, Pygmy girls' initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. Australia, Aborigine songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil Bird” Mexico, "El Cascabel," performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México. "Johnny B. Goode," written and performed by Chuck Berry. New Guinea, men's house song, recorded by Robert MacLennan. Japan, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Georgian S.S.R., chorus, "Tchakrulo” Peru, panpipes and drum "Melancholy Blues," performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven. 3 Azerbaijan S.S.R., bagpipes, recorded by Radio Moscow. 2:30 Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, conductor. 4:35 Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1. Glenn Gould, piano. 4:48 Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, conductor. 7:20 Bulgaria, "Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin," sung by Valya Balkanska. 4:59 Navajo Indians, Night Chant, recorded by Willard Rhodes. 0:57 Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, "The Fairie Round," performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London. 1:17 Solomon Islands, panpipes, collected by the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service. 1:12 Peru, wedding song, recorded by John Cohen. 0:38 China, ch'in, "Flowing Streams," performed by Kuan P'ing-hu. 7:37 India, raga, "Jaat Kahan Ho," sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30 "Dark Was the Night," written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson. 3:15 Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina, performed by Budapest String Quartet. 6:37 #nasa #chuckberry #music #space #carlsagan #space #goldendisc #voyager #records #rockandroll #1980s https://www.instagram.com/p/CaS339Zsamq/?utm_medium=tumblr

[wineanddinosaur]

12 Things You Should Know About Brewery Ommegang

If you’re looking for a beer to impress your friends, pair with charcuterie, or challenge your ability to contemplate both the dizzying effects of high alcohol by volume (ABV) and the subtle mechanics of spice and carbonation, look no further than Brewery Ommegang.

With a philosophy born in the fields of farmhouse breweries in Belgium, brought right here to the USA, this New York State-grown brand is the best of both worlds for Belgian beer lovers with local pride. Ancient in spirit yet always on-trend (e.g., bourbon barrel-finished Dubbel, anyone?), Brewery Ommegang straddles craft beer facets of complex, coy, and more than a little devilish.

Here are 12 more things to know about Brewery Ommegang.

Brewery Ommegang is not as ancient or mysterious as it sounds.

If Brewery Ommegang seems older (or more Belgian) than it is, that’s because the brewery did a very good job at making itself seem ancient and Belgian — when it was founded in 1997 by Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield in Cooperstown, N.Y. Littlefield and Feinberg also founded a New York-based Belgian beer import business, Vanberg and DeWulf, in 1982.

It’s part of a Belgian brewery family.

Brewery Ommegang began as a company-level Belgian beer collab between Littlefield and Feinberg’s import business, Vanberg and DeWulf, and Belgian breweries Duvel Moortgat, Scaldis, and Affligem. In 2003, Brewery Ommegang was acquired by Duvel Moortgat.

Duvel, a name you might recognize (and makers of the eponymous “quintessential Belgian strong ale”), had previously acquired Firestone Walker in 2015. Duvel also bought Antwerp, Belgium’s mainstay brewery De Koninck in late 2010.

Brewery Ommegang built a farmhouse brewery before ‘farmhouse brewery’ was cool.

It’s not just a matter of convenience that it built the farmhouse brewery in Cooperstown. For a while there in the 17th century, New York State was part of a territory known as “Nova Belgica,” which sounds like a song by Bjork that we’d hate but just means “New Belgium.” And while Belgium itself is at a more northerly latitude than New York, the climates aren’t dissimilar, so it seemed like the right place to brew beer in the tradition of Belgian styles (which are multifaceted and deliciously hard to categorize).

The word ‘Ommegang’ is a much earlier version of #SquadGoals.

When you say “Omm-uh-gang,” it almost sounds like what would descend on you with the fury of a thousand Sun Salutations should you ever cross the people at your Meditation Yoga class. Actually, “ommegang” is a Belgian word, used to refer to the coming of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles to medieval Brussels in 1549. Charles brought his own entourage and vendors, musicians, and artisans of the city lined up to receive them. The parade was called an “ommegang.” They still do it, to this day, because #squadgoals never die.

Speaking of, their first-ever offering was basically twice the average ABV.

Ommegang’s most recognizable bottle is probably its first offering, the Ommegang Abbey Dubbel, a Trappist-style ale that makes you marvel that monks have such a reputation for contemplation. Dubbels, in general, are between 6 and 9 percent ABV, and they originated at the Westmalle Monastery around the turn of the 20th century, where some clever monks decided to commercialize the stuff they drank daily by doubling the ABV for the (admittedly) sinful public. Ommegang’s Abbey Dubbel lands at the high end of the spectrum, 8.5 percent ABV with a malty, spicy flavor profile — meant to be sipped, not crushed.

Ommegang’s beers are (mostly) not for crushing.

Speaking of crushable beers, unless you’re a madman or Wade Boggs, don’t expect to do a summertime crush-style poolside thing with much of Ommegang’s lineup. Not that it’s all high-ABV: Its roster of offerings combines Belgian styles and its own fresh innovations, including a lighter-style, easy-drinking, lower-ABV beer, the orange peel- and coriander-spiced Witte (witbier) originally released in 2004, which clocks in at 5.2 percent ABV. There’s also the very relaxed Farmhouse Pilsner that combines the fresh, clean lager style with just a hint of delicate biscuity spice. Just don’t confuse a glass of that with some of their barrel-aged Three Philosophers Quadrupel, where the flavor profile is like rich structured beer soaked with dark chewy fruits and the ABV varies with the batch but always lands somewhere around 11 or 12 percent.

Steeped in Belgian tradition, sure, but amenable to craft geekery.

Toward the end of the 2010s, the brewery also bowed to the craft beer geeky masses and began rolling out a short list of IPAs. More recently, Ommegang released its first-ever lager, Idyll Days Pilsner, which reads “cleaner” on the palate (lagers tend to) and rings in at an anytime alcohol level of 5 percent ABV. Fret not, even the pilsner aspires to that “Je ne sais quoi” Franco-Belgian European complexity — it’s unfiltered, made with Czech floor-malted barley, and, in our minds, probably blessed by the European roommate from “It’s Always Sunny.”

You should be pairing Ommegang with food.

There’s something downright devilish (i.e., duvel-ish) about drinking a complex, rich beer all by its lonesome. But Belgian-style beers especially can outright sing when paired with rich dishes. And since we’re all graduating to some next-level maturity when it comes to drinking, and since pairing beer with food is both a bit more affordable and equally renegade, you might try something like Ommegang Hennepin, a 7.7 percent ABV farmhouse saison. Its citrus and spice notes provide enough bite and acidity to pit against anything fleshy or fried, and yet this saison is summery enough to cool your palate when it’s time for Thai-style spicy chicken wings, or pulled pork barbecue.

Ommegang and HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ are tight.

Granted, most of us thought “Game of Thrones” was more interested in dynamic cross-marketing coffee collaborations. But it was Ommegang that actually (intentionally) partnered with the HBO swords-and-sex-and-sadness series to release over a dozen GoT-themed beers. Among them: “Mother of Dragons,” a combination smoked porter and kriek (cherry-infused) beer that’s dark and red and smoky and pretty much deep-down, stone-cold evil; and a “Hand of the Queen,” a barleywine inspired by the character Tyrion, who loved wine and did his best to be drunk all the time (it’s not easy). The final beer, an imperial brown ale called, super pun-style, “My Watch Has Ended” (since, if you think about it, your watch(ing) of GoT has also ended). It received pretty good critical reception from fans of the show and beer alike, unlike the series finale that preceded it.

More bottles and cans are coming.

Brewery Ommegang isn’t stuck in the past. The company capitulates to our American hankering for cracking a cold one with increasing availability of smaller formats, like the Idyll Days Pilsner (available in 16-ounce cans and, because 2020, as a protective face mask) and Neon Rainbows, its Farmhouse New England-style IPA (available in 4-pack bottles or neon yet somehow still classy 16-ounce cans).

Because it’s Ommegang, there’s also canned Three Philosophers, which is a 9.3 percent ABV power-packed quadrupel-plus-kriek (like a sour cherry lambic) that’s also aged in Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux wine barrels (read: not for chugging, unless you’re a wizard or this guy).

Ommegang also makes cider.

Not much more to it, yet. Launched in 2019 and called, aptly, “Project Cider,” Brewery Ommegang has been making two varieties of canned cider by combining the rugged character of local New York State apples with the magic of Belgian yeast. Currently they’re doing “Dry” and “Rosé” styles, both of which are filtered and carbonated — meaning even if the slightly dryer style is more European, the final product is also close enough to the mass-market-appeal of an easy-drinking American cider like Angry Orchard.

You can get married at the brewery.

Unfortunately, you can’t marry Ommegang, but you can get married at Ommegang. Brewery Ommegang is situated in a pretty bucolic little spot near the banks of the Susquehanna River. Brewery owners must have realized early on that they were sitting on prime wedding real estate, because they now offer a polished wedding package that includes customized menu, DJ, tent procurement assistance (and when do we not have trouble with tent procurement?) and, of course, Ommegang beer (you can choose five of theirs, plus wine, plus optional spirits, depending on the kind of open bar your friends can handle). They actually dress the tents up really nice. And hey, this guy loved it.

The article 12 Things You Should Know About Brewery Ommegang appeared first on VinePair.

source https://vinepair.com/articles/brewery-ommegang-guide/

[delfinamaggiousa]

12 Things You Should Know About Brewery Ommegang

If you’re looking for a beer to impress your friends, pair with charcuterie, or challenge your ability to contemplate both the dizzying effects of high alcohol by volume (ABV) and the subtle mechanics of spice and carbonation, look no further than Brewery Ommegang.

With a philosophy born in the fields of farmhouse breweries in Belgium, brought right here to the USA, this New York State-grown brand is the best of both worlds for Belgian beer lovers with local pride. Ancient in spirit yet always on-trend (e.g., bourbon barrel-finished Dubbel, anyone?), Brewery Ommegang straddles craft beer facets of complex, coy, and more than a little devilish.

Here are 12 more things to know about Brewery Ommegang.

Brewery Ommegang is not as ancient or mysterious as it sounds.

If Brewery Ommegang seems older (or more Belgian) than it is, that’s because the brewery did a very good job at making itself seem ancient and Belgian — when it was founded in 1997 by Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield in Cooperstown, N.Y. Littlefield and Feinberg also founded a New York-based Belgian beer import business, Vanberg and DeWulf, in 1982.

It’s part of a Belgian brewery family.

Brewery Ommegang began as a company-level Belgian beer collab between Littlefield and Feinberg’s import business, Vanberg and DeWulf, and Belgian breweries Duvel Moortgat, Scaldis, and Affligem. In 2003, Brewery Ommegang was acquired by Duvel Moortgat.

Duvel, a name you might recognize (and makers of the eponymous “quintessential Belgian strong ale”), had previously acquired Firestone Walker in 2015. Duvel also bought Antwerp, Belgium’s mainstay brewery De Koninck in late 2010.

Brewery Ommegang built a farmhouse brewery before ‘farmhouse brewery’ was cool.

It’s not just a matter of convenience that it built the farmhouse brewery in Cooperstown. For a while there in the 17th century, New York State was part of a territory known as “Nova Belgica,” which sounds like a song by Bjork that we’d hate but just means “New Belgium.” And while Belgium itself is at a more northerly latitude than New York, the climates aren’t dissimilar, so it seemed like the right place to brew beer in the tradition of Belgian styles (which are multifaceted and deliciously hard to categorize).

The word ‘Ommegang’ is a much earlier version of #SquadGoals.

When you say “Omm-uh-gang,” it almost sounds like what would descend on you with the fury of a thousand Sun Salutations should you ever cross the people at your Meditation Yoga class. Actually, “ommegang” is a Belgian word, used to refer to the coming of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles to medieval Brussels in 1549. Charles brought his own entourage and vendors, musicians, and artisans of the city lined up to receive them. The parade was called an “ommegang.” They still do it, to this day, because #squadgoals never die.

Speaking of, their first-ever offering was basically twice the average ABV.

Ommegang’s most recognizable bottle is probably its first offering, the Ommegang Abbey Dubbel, a Trappist-style ale that makes you marvel that monks have such a reputation for contemplation. Dubbels, in general, are between 6 and 9 percent ABV, and they originated at the Westmalle Monastery around the turn of the 20th century, where some clever monks decided to commercialize the stuff they drank daily by doubling the ABV for the (admittedly) sinful public. Ommegang’s Abbey Dubbel lands at the high end of the spectrum, 8.5 percent ABV with a malty, spicy flavor profile — meant to be sipped, not crushed.

Ommegang’s beers are (mostly) not for crushing.

Speaking of crushable beers, unless you’re a madman or Wade Boggs, don’t expect to do a summertime crush-style poolside thing with much of Ommegang’s lineup. Not that it’s all high-ABV: Its roster of offerings combines Belgian styles and its own fresh innovations, including a lighter-style, easy-drinking, lower-ABV beer, the orange peel- and coriander-spiced Witte (witbier) originally released in 2004, which clocks in at 5.2 percent ABV. There’s also the very relaxed Farmhouse Pilsner that combines the fresh, clean lager style with just a hint of delicate biscuity spice. Just don’t confuse a glass of that with some of their barrel-aged Three Philosophers Quadrupel, where the flavor profile is like rich structured beer soaked with dark chewy fruits and the ABV varies with the batch but always lands somewhere around 11 or 12 percent.

Steeped in Belgian tradition, sure, but amenable to craft geekery.

Toward the end of the 2010s, the brewery also bowed to the craft beer geeky masses and began rolling out a short list of IPAs. More recently, Ommegang released its first-ever lager, Idyll Days Pilsner, which reads “cleaner” on the palate (lagers tend to) and rings in at an anytime alcohol level of 5 percent ABV. Fret not, even the pilsner aspires to that “Je ne sais quoi” Franco-Belgian European complexity — it’s unfiltered, made with Czech floor-malted barley, and, in our minds, probably blessed by the European roommate from “It’s Always Sunny.”

You should be pairing Ommegang with food.

There’s something downright devilish (i.e., duvel-ish) about drinking a complex, rich beer all by its lonesome. But Belgian-style beers especially can outright sing when paired with rich dishes. And since we’re all graduating to some next-level maturity when it comes to drinking, and since pairing beer with food is both a bit more affordable and equally renegade, you might try something like Ommegang Hennepin, a 7.7 percent ABV farmhouse saison. Its citrus and spice notes provide enough bite and acidity to pit against anything fleshy or fried, and yet this saison is summery enough to cool your palate when it’s time for Thai-style spicy chicken wings, or pulled pork barbecue.

Ommegang and HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ are tight.

Granted, most of us thought “Game of Thrones” was more interested in dynamic cross-marketing coffee collaborations. But it was Ommegang that actually (intentionally) partnered with the HBO swords-and-sex-and-sadness series to release over a dozen GoT-themed beers. Among them: “Mother of Dragons,” a combination smoked porter and kriek (cherry-infused) beer that’s dark and red and smoky and pretty much deep-down, stone-cold evil; and a “Hand of the Queen,” a barleywine inspired by the character Tyrion, who loved wine and did his best to be drunk all the time (it’s not easy). The final beer, an imperial brown ale called, super pun-style, “My Watch Has Ended” (since, if you think about it, your watch(ing) of GoT has also ended). It received pretty good critical reception from fans of the show and beer alike, unlike the series finale that preceded it.

More bottles and cans are coming.

Brewery Ommegang isn’t stuck in the past. The company capitulates to our American hankering for cracking a cold one with increasing availability of smaller formats, like the Idyll Days Pilsner (available in 16-ounce cans and, because 2020, as a protective face mask) and Neon Rainbows, its Farmhouse New England-style IPA (available in 4-pack bottles or neon yet somehow still classy 16-ounce cans).

Because it’s Ommegang, there’s also canned Three Philosophers, which is a 9.3 percent ABV power-packed quadrupel-plus-kriek (like a sour cherry lambic) that’s also aged in Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux wine barrels (read: not for chugging, unless you’re a wizard or this guy).

Ommegang also makes cider.

Not much more to it, yet. Launched in 2019 and called, aptly, “Project Cider,” Brewery Ommegang has been making two varieties of canned cider by combining the rugged character of local New York State apples with the magic of Belgian yeast. Currently they’re doing “Dry” and “Rosé” styles, both of which are filtered and carbonated — meaning even if the slightly dryer style is more European, the final product is also close enough to the mass-market-appeal of an easy-drinking American cider like Angry Orchard.

You can get married at the brewery.

Unfortunately, you can’t marry Ommegang, but you can get married at Ommegang. Brewery Ommegang is situated in a pretty bucolic little spot near the banks of the Susquehanna River. Brewery owners must have realized early on that they were sitting on prime wedding real estate, because they now offer a polished wedding package that includes customized menu, DJ, tent procurement assistance (and when do we not have trouble with tent procurement?) and, of course, Ommegang beer (you can choose five of theirs, plus wine, plus optional spirits, depending on the kind of open bar your friends can handle). They actually dress the tents up really nice. And hey, this guy loved it.

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12 Things You Should Know About Brewery Ommegang

If you’re looking for a beer to impress your friends, pair with charcuterie, or challenge your ability to contemplate both the dizzying effects of high alcohol by volume (ABV) and the subtle mechanics of spice and carbonation, look no further than Brewery Ommegang.

With a philosophy born in the fields of farmhouse breweries in Belgium, brought right here to the USA, this New York State-grown brand is the best of both worlds for Belgian beer lovers with local pride. Ancient in spirit yet always on-trend (e.g., bourbon barrel-finished Dubbel, anyone?), Brewery Ommegang straddles craft beer facets of complex, coy, and more than a little devilish.

Here are 12 more things to know about Brewery Ommegang.

Brewery Ommegang is not as ancient or mysterious as it sounds.

If Brewery Ommegang seems older (or more Belgian) than it is, that’s because the brewery did a very good job at making itself seem ancient and Belgian — when it was founded in 1997 by Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield in Cooperstown, N.Y. Littlefield and Feinberg also founded a New York-based Belgian beer import business, Vanberg and DeWulf, in 1982.

It’s part of a Belgian brewery family.

Brewery Ommegang began as a company-level Belgian beer collab between Littlefield and Feinberg’s import business, Vanberg and DeWulf, and Belgian breweries Duvel Moortgat, Scaldis, and Affligem. In 2003, Brewery Ommegang was acquired by Duvel Moortgat.

Duvel, a name you might recognize (and makers of the eponymous “quintessential Belgian strong ale”), had previously acquired Firestone Walker in 2015. Duvel also bought Antwerp, Belgium’s mainstay brewery De Koninck in late 2010.

Brewery Ommegang built a farmhouse brewery before ‘farmhouse brewery’ was cool.

It’s not just a matter of convenience that it built the farmhouse brewery in Cooperstown. For a while there in the 17th century, New York State was part of a territory known as “Nova Belgica,” which sounds like a song by Bjork that we’d hate but just means “New Belgium.” And while Belgium itself is at a more northerly latitude than New York, the climates aren’t dissimilar, so it seemed like the right place to brew beer in the tradition of Belgian styles (which are multifaceted and deliciously hard to categorize).

The word ‘Ommegang’ is a much earlier version of #SquadGoals.

When you say “Omm-uh-gang,” it almost sounds like what would descend on you with the fury of a thousand Sun Salutations should you ever cross the people at your Meditation Yoga class. Actually, “ommegang” is a Belgian word, used to refer to the coming of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles to medieval Brussels in 1549. Charles brought his own entourage and vendors, musicians, and artisans of the city lined up to receive them. The parade was called an “ommegang.” They still do it, to this day, because #squadgoals never die.

Speaking of, their first-ever offering was basically twice the average ABV.

Ommegang’s most recognizable bottle is probably its first offering, the Ommegang Abbey Dubbel, a Trappist-style ale that makes you marvel that monks have such a reputation for contemplation. Dubbels, in general, are between 6 and 9 percent ABV, and they originated at the Westmalle Monastery around the turn of the 20th century, where some clever monks decided to commercialize the stuff they drank daily by doubling the ABV for the (admittedly) sinful public. Ommegang’s Abbey Dubbel lands at the high end of the spectrum, 8.5 percent ABV with a malty, spicy flavor profile — meant to be sipped, not crushed.

Ommegang’s beers are (mostly) not for crushing.

Speaking of crushable beers, unless you’re a madman or Wade Boggs, don’t expect to do a summertime crush-style poolside thing with much of Ommegang’s lineup. Not that it’s all high-ABV: Its roster of offerings combines Belgian styles and its own fresh innovations, including a lighter-style, easy-drinking, lower-ABV beer, the orange peel- and coriander-spiced Witte (witbier) originally released in 2004, which clocks in at 5.2 percent ABV. There’s also the very relaxed Farmhouse Pilsner that combines the fresh, clean lager style with just a hint of delicate biscuity spice. Just don’t confuse a glass of that with some of their barrel-aged Three Philosophers Quadrupel, where the flavor profile is like rich structured beer soaked with dark chewy fruits and the ABV varies with the batch but always lands somewhere around 11 or 12 percent.

Steeped in Belgian tradition, sure, but amenable to craft geekery.

Toward the end of the 2010s, the brewery also bowed to the craft beer geeky masses and began rolling out a short list of IPAs. More recently, Ommegang released its first-ever lager, Idyll Days Pilsner, which reads “cleaner” on the palate (lagers tend to) and rings in at an anytime alcohol level of 5 percent ABV. Fret not, even the pilsner aspires to that “Je ne sais quoi” Franco-Belgian European complexity — it’s unfiltered, made with Czech floor-malted barley, and, in our minds, probably blessed by the European roommate from “It’s Always Sunny.”

You should be pairing Ommegang with food.

There’s something downright devilish (i.e., duvel-ish) about drinking a complex, rich beer all by its lonesome. But Belgian-style beers especially can outright sing when paired with rich dishes. And since we’re all graduating to some next-level maturity when it comes to drinking, and since pairing beer with food is both a bit more affordable and equally renegade, you might try something like Ommegang Hennepin, a 7.7 percent ABV farmhouse saison. Its citrus and spice notes provide enough bite and acidity to pit against anything fleshy or fried, and yet this saison is summery enough to cool your palate when it’s time for Thai-style spicy chicken wings, or pulled pork barbecue.

Ommegang and HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ are tight.

Granted, most of us thought “Game of Thrones” was more interested in dynamic cross-marketing coffee collaborations. But it was Ommegang that actually (intentionally) partnered with the HBO swords-and-sex-and-sadness series to release over a dozen GoT-themed beers. Among them: “Mother of Dragons,” a combination smoked porter and kriek (cherry-infused) beer that’s dark and red and smoky and pretty much deep-down, stone-cold evil; and a “Hand of the Queen,” a barleywine inspired by the character Tyrion, who loved wine and did his best to be drunk all the time (it’s not easy). The final beer, an imperial brown ale called, super pun-style, “My Watch Has Ended” (since, if you think about it, your watch(ing) of GoT has also ended). It received pretty good critical reception from fans of the show and beer alike, unlike the series finale that preceded it.

More bottles and cans are coming.

Brewery Ommegang isn’t stuck in the past. The company capitulates to our American hankering for cracking a cold one with increasing availability of smaller formats, like the Idyll Days Pilsner (available in 16-ounce cans and, because 2020, as a protective face mask) and Neon Rainbows, its Farmhouse New England-style IPA (available in 4-pack bottles or neon yet somehow still classy 16-ounce cans).

Because it’s Ommegang, there’s also canned Three Philosophers, which is a 9.3 percent ABV power-packed quadrupel-plus-kriek (like a sour cherry lambic) that’s also aged in Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux wine barrels (read: not for chugging, unless you’re a wizard or this guy).

Ommegang also makes cider.

Not much more to it, yet. Launched in 2019 and called, aptly, “Project Cider,” Brewery Ommegang has been making two varieties of canned cider by combining the rugged character of local New York State apples with the magic of Belgian yeast. Currently they’re doing “Dry” and “Rosé” styles, both of which are filtered and carbonated — meaning even if the slightly dryer style is more European, the final product is also close enough to the mass-market-appeal of an easy-drinking American cider like Angry Orchard.

You can get married at the brewery.

Unfortunately, you can’t marry Ommegang, but you can get married at Ommegang. Brewery Ommegang is situated in a pretty bucolic little spot near the banks of the Susquehanna River. Brewery owners must have realized early on that they were sitting on prime wedding real estate, because they now offer a polished wedding package that includes customized menu, DJ, tent procurement assistance (and when do we not have trouble with tent procurement?) and, of course, Ommegang beer (you can choose five of theirs, plus wine, plus optional spirits, depending on the kind of open bar your friends can handle). They actually dress the tents up really nice. And hey, this guy loved it.

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Excerpts from an interview with Charles Duvelle by Hisham Mayet.