Sakura Lambic
OWA Brewery in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij De TrochLambic Style - Untraditional Regular
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Score
7.18
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A perfect beer to enjoy before a meal. Sakura means cherry leaves in japanese. The leaves are steeped in salt for several months producing a highly perfumed aroma. In Japan, Sakura are also enjoyed as special sweets during spring time.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as OWA Sakura Lambic (by OWA Brewery SPRL):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
1/XI/13 - 37.5cl bottle from Délice & Caprice (Brussels) @ home - BB: III/2016 (2013-1022)
Clear orange beer, big aery white head, unstable, little adhesive. Aroma: lots of ginger, ginger bread, cinnamon, cherry syrup, marzipan, sweet cookie dough. Very weird! MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, citric acidity, yet very soft, lots of cinnamon, bit of dried ginger powder, little woody, some tannins. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, citrus, dough, cinnamon, gingerbread. Very weird but enjoyable beer!
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
1/XI/13 - 37.5cl bottle from Délice & Caprice (Brussels) @ home - BB: III/2016 (2013-1022)
Clear orange beer, big aery white head, unstable, little adhesive. Aroma: lots of ginger, ginger bread, cinnamon, cherry syrup, marzipan, sweet cookie dough. Very weird! MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, citric acidity, yet very soft, lots of cinnamon, bit of dried ginger powder, little woody, some tannins. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, citrus, dough, cinnamon, gingerbread. Very weird but enjoyable beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2013
at 11:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
@ Gents bierfestival. Amber colour, almost no foam, little carbonation. Fruity and sweet aroma, bitter and sour. Very dry and tart aftertaste.
Tried
on 20 Aug 2013
at 01:59
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Second batch. Bottle nr. 350/1000. 75 cl. bottle sampled @ GBF 2013. Darker amber orange than expected with some white bubbles. Smell is fruity, tad sweet, flowers, oranges, lemon, flowers with some funk. Taste is bitter oranges, musty with some funk, citrus, light cinnamon, malts showing a bit, some bitter citrus peel and some barn. Reasonable body and little in the way of carb. Sakura is a very interesting “fruit” for sure to add to lambic, I really enjoyed this, quite a bit more than the Ume one. Bit confussed about the complaints about sweetness here because from what I get sakura simply has a very sweet and rose-like flavour. You wouldn’t expect a banana-lambic to be über-sour either would you? (Thx! to the RB Crew for sharing).
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2013
at 03:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
@ gents bierfestival bottle 350 / 1000 pours clear , yellow ( darker yellow ) almost no head . smell is dry , lambic . bit of carbo . green vegetables, cornflake-grains-character , bit sour . very dry .
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2013
at 16:28
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
No head but a small white rim, very faintly veiled orange-amber beer with Grünstich Sour, woody lambic nose with lots of sweet caramel - and even sweetener, IMO. Sourish, tannines, better, but the finish has again sticky caramel, even speculoos(spices). Lemon, lemonfudge, unripe fruit. Dry-out effect combined with stickyness - ugh! It’s not really bad - but it’s exactly how a lambic ought NOT to be.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2013
at 12:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Délices et Caprices. Clear deep golden liquid with medium white head. Aroma of flowers, roses, spices, lemon, red apple skin and cinnamon. Wow, this is different. Taste is light to medium sweet and light sour with notes of cinnamon, flowers and earth. Medium bodied with light carbonation. Weird, but still quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2013
at 08:47
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
37.5cl bottle courtesy of Leo Imai of Owa, shared with Pierre @ Délices et Caprices. BB 03/2014. Au premier abord, belle étiquette sur sorte de papier parchemin japonais. Dès ouverture on note ce profile cerise de Sakura qui se fait présent avant de verser au verre mais sans être superflus. Bière est dorée avec un col blanc fin qui disparait très vite pour ne laisser que qcq bulles à la surface. Arôme est unique alternant en profile lambic acidulé et un bouquet fleuri de cerise, on est ici loin d’une kriek belge. Bouquet est agréable et on y note aussi l’influence du jeune lambic. Note aussi un léger côté cuire, boisé. En bouche, la bière manque clairement d’age, le tout est plat avec juste qcq bulles qui viennent titiller le fond de la gorge. Un contraste claire se dessine si on compare le tout à l’arôme. Ici le Sakura domine un peu et seulement l’ajout de la lie vient changer le profile qui alors prend plus le côté lambic. L’usage de lambic 1 et 2 ans se ressent également sur la fin, et là l’expérience devient plus agréable, la fin de bouche prend alors des notes entre tourbe/peat, cuire avec un pétillant léger. En l’état, ce lambic aurait du rester encore au moins 6 mois en cave, en ce moment il devait avoir environ 3-4 mois. La cerise telle qu’elle se présente rend le tout beaucoup trop doux et je pense que cela peut évoluer avec le temps ou alors il faut diminuer l’ajout de Sakura qui contribue à tropd e douceur. Potentiel est là avec qcq changements, le tout peut vraiment donner une belle alliance du style belge et de l’influence japonaise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2012
at 05:27