Pours unclear blonde, no head. Smell is very rough and raw, earthy- in a way. 'Rotten vegetables' sounds terrible, but it does remind me a bit of those juiced-structure-veggy's, whilst not being as bad of course. All relatively mild, as the lambic is still very recognizable. Taste is medium intense tart, very dry and oaky. The tea delivers a mild aroma, very rough and raw, creating a slick body. Interesting, but not something i'd easely drink again.

Tap at Roberto's, Brum. Pours hazy orange gold with a small head. Aroma is cheesy sharp barnyard notes. Taste is cheesy sharp lemon with some savoury notes.

One in a string of experimental unblended Oud Beersel lambics, some of which have made it to the commercial market in 'bag in box' form, this one flavoured with oolong, a Chinese category of tea that seems to hold the middle between green tea and black tea and is sometimes called 'blue tea'. It is not the first time that this particular ingredient is used in lambic: see Cantillon's Zwanze of 2017 (Cuvée Bijette) for the original one. Had this Oud Beersel interpretation from tap at Dok's premises in Hal 16 in Ghent. Some minute, loose, off-white bubbles around the edge here and there, but no head as such; misty ochre-hued apricot blonde robe. Aroma of fermenting pear, gooseberry juice, a vague whiff of wet cigarette tobacco, dry cider, old dry sherry, indeed a tea-like background accent, sour yoghurt, fermented lemons, wet wood, bread crumbs. Tart onset, raw rhubarb, sour green gooseberries, green apple, lime, supple and somewhat vinous body with minerally flavour aspects at the sides, ongoing drying sourness but in a colourful, refreshing and quenching way, nowhere descending into harsh puckering 'vinegariness'; bready-wheaty core, slick, cereally, dried to the bone by the sourness and the tannic effects of the wood and the tea, the latter also adding a kind of gentle, herbal smokiness retronasally, albeit clearly less pronounced than in the other Oud Beersel tea lambics I had so far. Ends a bit astringent, but more from sourness than from the tea tannins and bitterness; interesting one, for sure, but it seems as if the oolong tea effect has already faded here. I was expecting more 'punch', based on experiences with its predecessors, but no matter how you look at it, it is a very solid, complex, refreshing lambic in all respects, one I would happily revisit.

Sourish, acidic, apples, bit manure, tannins

Hapu, puuviljane, tsitrus, herbaalne, natuke teed ka, suht selline igav vana lambic mingite herbaalsete nootidega.

Malo dzikosci, duzo tanin, sciaga usto, herbata obecna... niespecjalnie pasi :(