7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Clear golden colour with no head. Light carbonation. Aroma is very green and leafy. Taste start with lime citrus. There's a herbal bitterness too. Pithy lime aftertaste.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Golden color. Herbal aroma with peach. Sour flavor with citrus, soft herbal notes and canned peach.

8

Very strong herbal and aromatic. Minty, lavender, green tea, fresh grassy hay, lime peels, very green leafy, rupsenpoepjes 🐛, japnese seaweed. Mild to medium sour. Medium body, soft carbonation. Bit cheesy parmesan funky, also, light metallic, flinty.

8.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Maakun’s, cool tick dude. Clear golden with some greyish ring head. Very strong herbal and aromatic. Minty, lavender, green tea, fresh grassy hay, lime peels, very green leafy, rupsenpoepjes 🐛, japnese seaweed. Mild to medium sour. Medium body, soft carbonation. Bit cheesy parmesan funky, also, light metallic, flinty. Lots of stuff to taste.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at home. Clear deep golden with small white head. Massive dank weedy herb, and I mean DANK. It's a bit like mint with green tea, verveine, soft malts, lime, medicinal herbs, lots of grass. Massive dank hay. Over medium sour, light sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with sparky carbonation. This is super aromatic, either this herb is super strong or they put a lot in here. Crazy. Pretty tasty overall but not to drink often. Hay!

7

Zdominowane czyms, co odbieram jak pokrzywez a konkretnie kwiaty pokrzywy. Powqzka. I w sumie jest dobre, najlepsze dzis z tych smieciowych owa

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

One of the – for now – last generation OWA lambics, this one with shiso as the Japanese ingredient, an Asian herb (Perilla frutescens) also known as ‘beefsteak plant’; this herb has a very peculiar flavour, sometimes compared with basil or cilantro, but it is equally unique as those two (or any other herb) so I guess it is best to consider it an aroma in its own right. From a 37.5 cl bottle bought at Être Gourmet, with green neckfoil. Open, bubbly, loosely knit, egg-white, unstable head on a straw blonde beer, hazy initially, deeper ochre and all ‘muddy’ with sediment added. Utterly weird aroma: dry prepared fish food (as tderoeck described it), nori seaweed, green tea, oven-grated oysters with basil, green peppercorns, sour apples, old orange peel, damp hay. Sour onset, green gooseberry and sour apple effects, medium carb, soft bready base dried by primarily lactic sourness, but more than anything, soaked in a very powerful, again fish food-, decaying seaweed- and green tea-like aroma from a doubtlessly very generous amount of shiso leaves; this herb adds a light bitterness as well, mingling with the beer’s own funkiness, woodiness and deep earthiness, while a crisp acidity lingers. Based on other OWA lambics – and I had every variant ever made now – I knew I should have been expecting something odd, but this is a bit much even for me; this is downright bizarre, unlike any beer I ever tasted before, and to this day I am still wondering whether I could ever get used to it or not, provided I would buy more bottles and drink it regularly. Certainly unique, but I remain unconvinced that shiso is a suitable ingredient for lambics – though it was only a matter of time before OWA was going to conceive the idea and execute it. After this, I would not be surprised one bit if the next series of OWA lambics is going to play with the Japanese culinary use of seaweed – but let’s not give Leo Imai any ideas here, shall we – this one is more than bizarre enough…

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

19/X/19 - 37.5cl bottle @ Wim VL's Stoofvlees Tasting, BB: I/2024 - (2019-1753) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange beer, big aery irregular fizzy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: weird, smell like fish food flakes, sea weed, very weird and funky. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very weird, funky, sea weed, bit dirty. Aftertaste: salty touch, lots of sea weed, nori, very specific stuff this... Interesting, decent, but not great.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared with Mrs Scopey. It pours clear golden with a small white head. The aroma is musty, funky, barnyard, herbal (more as it warms up) spicy, woody, hay, earthy, floral, green apple and some golden wonder salt & vinegar crisps. The taste is crisp, dry, tart, musty, funky, light acidity, tart citrus peel, salt & vinegar crisp, lightly herbal, spice, barnyard, oak, granny smith apple and earth with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. An interesting combo for sure. Novel, but I am glad that the herbal component is relatively subtle!

7.3

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

Pours unclear blonde. Smell is full, funky, basil, but not as outspoken as spontanbasil. Way more funk as well. Taste is intense, basil, funky, earthy. Mild acetic acid. A better drinkin' beer than spontanbasil for sure. More balanced. but also , at the same time, a bit to acetic.