7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

375 ml. bottle sampled @ Modeste 2018. Wierd murky red puree with no head. Nose is sweet murky red fruit & yoghurt. Taste is all milky bit sweet yoghurt, sugar, milky, red fruit pure,… Yoghurt body. Weird not very lambiek-esque, very weird very yoghurt, not very lambiek-like, dig but very odd, unusual.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

One of the three newest OWA lambics and the last I had to taste, from a 75 cl bottle with cork and red paper ornament around the neck; the cork appeared very hard to remove. Off-white, moussy, initially medium thick but quickly thinning and opening head eventually reduced to a thin ring, over a misty, orange-tinged peach blonde beer, the 'mist' perturbed by vivid sparkling; clouded and even deeper 'rosy' orange with sediment, its darker than average hue no doubt the result of the added hibiscus. Aroma of funky De Troch lambic throughout, hinting at unripe plums, gooseberries, sour apples, wet wood, sweat, dry straw, hay, feta cheese, raw rhubarb, a vague touch of chlorine and vague rosehip and Chinese flower tea, more subtle than I was expecting but identifiable. Crisp sour onset, lemony but not harshly puckering, sour apples and sour grapes, very fruity with a very light 'stonefruit peel' wryness to it, softly fizzin carbonation; slick wheaty basis dried by the overall sourness, which manages to remain elegant, funky Brettanomyces notes retronasally as well as a deep layer of soaking wet wood, tannic and 'dusty'; sour fruitiness remains dominant and refreshing, with a touch of rosehip wryness and floral hibiscus sweetishness, both again very subtle and volatile. Quite accessible for this series, less demanding than the strawberry and grape versions, fine De Troch lambic - a brand often a bit overlooked by the lambic afficionado thanks to the fact that it is very rare on the market in whatever unsugared and unpasteurized form.

8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Unclear glowing orange color with white head. Aroma is rosehip, a bit farty, tea, rose pedals. Taste is rosehip, flowery, barnyard, tea bitterness. Silky mouthfeel with natural carbonation. Very good!

7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Pours hazy roseish amber. Aroma is wet farts, rosehip, strong stables, Parmigiano, tea. Body is medium, strongly sour, tea, fizzy carbonation, a bit fruity. Tea-like bitterness. Quite good.

6

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