Ume Lambic
(has 4 batches)

Bottle brought back from belg. Pours out a crisp golden no head. Nose is Japanese plums for sure cork some funk. Taste is more of the cork sour funk and plums.

Strasznie marudzili, ale mi smakowal raczej, taka piwniczna wioska z czyms dziwnym i z agrestem. Rocznik 2013

(Bottle) Golden colour, slightly hazy, with foamy white head. Fruity, slightly sourish nose with cellar, plums, stable, apricots, hay, almonds and a touch of honey. Fruity, slightly tart taste with plums, apricots, grapefruit, lime, barnyard, orange peel, almonds, grass and a tart finish, mainly dry but with a light honey sweetness. Light body, mainly dry. Really tasty and quite complex. Very nice.

Bottled@AIH66 Beer Session (from Systembolaget Umeå). Hazy amber colour, small slightly off-white head. Quite sweet fruity and mildly tart wooden nose with mild plum notes. Flavour is some tart wooden notes, mild floral and fruity notes to it. Quite sweetish sour.

Bottled 375ml. Overriped fruits, earthy-cellary, tart aroma. Medium-bodied. Tart, riped fruity, earthy notes. Maybe there is pale plum flavors. Tart aftertaste. Interesting.

Botella @Señor Lúpulo. Despacho de cervezas, Gijón 10/12/2016 Color amarillo dorado, sabor frutal, especiado acido, cuerpo medio.

Bottle from Rakuten shared in Montreal. Honey gold with a thin filmy head. My art musty lemon aroma. It has a wonderfully tart lactic lemon and cork oak flavor with some malty caramel in the finish.

Limitedly produced plum lambic, made at De Troch for OWA, the beer company owned by a Japanese entrepeneur based in Brussels. Very loose, light ’dirty pinkish’, irregular head dissolving in instants to practically nothing; misty peach blonde robe with salmon pinkish hue, limited but still visible fizz; becomes all murky and ’muddy’ with the sediment added. Somewhat ’musty’, unusual aroma of fermenting yellow plum, buttermilk, wry grape peel, unripe gooseberry, wet wood, a lot of dust, cherry stones, sweet curry spices, old rosé wine, roses, pickled gherkin, moldy orange, cooked beetroot, carrot even, pumpkin seeds, wet cardboard, salted tomato - definite lambic traits here, lots of stonefruit, but also something weirdly ’pickled’ which may be intentional, considering the fact that Japanese ume plums are indeed often used pickled in local cuisine. Lively fruit sourness in the onset, sharp and somewhat puckering lemon acidity paired with a more ’deeply’ wry unripe green plum and sour berry tartness; under this sourness lies a subtle touch of peach sweetishness. Carbonation remains soft, not ’flat’ like an unblended lambic, but certainly not as fizzy as a geuze either - more in the range of a ’luierik’ (insufficiently refermented geuze). Mouthfeel is otherwise supple and pleasant, with some soft wheat sourishness and lightly bready barley sweetishness underlying an ongoing stream of sour, unripe and even wry stonefruit, drying the palate; the actual fruit sourness and wryness pairs well with the lemony sharpness and sedate lactic tartness of the lambic. Finish adds a touch of wet wood and a late, brief, ’deaf’ and earthy accent of hop bitterness, but it is the wry unripe plum tartness which dominates till deep down in the throat. Interesting idea to put sour plums in a lambic and like the others in this series, it highlights elements of Japanese culture and cuisine in an altogether Belgian lambic context. It took me a while to get used to the aroma and I still think it tastes better than it smells, but I love all things (unsweetened) lambic and this to me is a worthy addition to the still expanding range of variations on the sour fruit lambic theme. From a more technical point of view, however, this clearly would have been a lot better if it were better carbonated...

Tap at WvdSG. Super murky milky golden, looks like an English cup of tea. Lots of plum skins, sour grains, a bit of plum pits, seaweed, light black tea. Medium sour and bitter, very light salty. Under medium bodied, no carbonation.

Poured from a 2014 bottle. Aroma is nice with a moderate plum note and a bit of citrus and tropical fruit. Some light oak notes and a touch of an herbal funk. Pours a somewhat hazy, pale golden orange with a small, thin white head that recedes and lingers. Light lacing and faint legs. Flavor is moderately acidic with some sweetness to it. Moderate plum notes with quite a bit of apple as well. Some light tropical fruit and citrus. Light oak notes and a touch of herbal character. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium high carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a nice beer with lots of plum and red apple notes. Light funk and oak. The apple character overwhelms the plum though.