Lean Lamb Barrel Aged Sour Ale
The Mussel Inn in Onekaka, Tasman, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.22
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Farm house sour beer form our barrel of joy - slightly tart 'n somewhat frisky! Ever evolving as the life in the barrel develops.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[33cl bottle from the Fresh Choice supermarket, Takaka, NZ.] A slightly hazy straw coloured pour; sour aroma with some berry fruit, and a faint whiff of farmyard; rather watery in the mouth with some sharp berries but then a fruit squash like after taste. lacks the lip puckering sourness of many modern sours, but probably closer to the Belgian original,
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2025
at 08:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle at the brewery. Pours orange. Barnyard, apple, orange peel, scrumpy, toast, bit of pepper, light sour, very slight touch of solvent. Medium body. Seems like they've improved this from the batch many of the ratings are from.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2019
at 07:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared during the satellite Travlr 10K tasting at CBC Clerkenwell - London. Thanks to our NZ supplier! Pours clear gold with a creamy, white head. The nose has sweet-smelling citrus fruits, sweat, and sour berries. Medium sweet flavor with salty sweat, rotten orange and moderate acetic burn. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sour finish with further sweaty citrus. Not terrible.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2014
at 00:58
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle, shared at the satellite 10K tasting CBC Clerko, 19/08/14. Very lightly hazed golden with a moderate off white swirl and edgework. Nose is light funk, dank wood, musty, lemon peel, vinegar notes. Taste comprises quite a dose of acidity, dank wood, fruit balsams, oaky, citric tinged straw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dank tangy acidic vein pulsing in the close with a light throat scrape. So so sour, 1D and pretty acidic, I could handle this but only in small doses!
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2014
at 12:59
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle share at the satellite 10k tasting at the craft clerko. Aroma is vinegar, acetone, tart apple. Hazed golden orange with no head. Flavour is cider vinegar, drying acid, vinegar.. Palate is light very drying,. Too much vinegar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2014
at 12:41
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle at Craft Share thanks to Dave. It pours hazy golden-amber with a small white head. The wood, must, funk, Brett,, acetone, vinegar, sour stone fruits and spice. The taste is tart, woody, acidic, wood, lemon peel, brett, vinegar and some acidity burn with a dry finish. Light-medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty basic sour by any measure...
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2014
at 11:52
6/10
Tried
on 19 Aug 2014
at 11:48