Gari Lambic
OWA Brewery in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
6.68
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Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Gari Lambic from OWA Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Transparant feeble head over clear golden beer. Aromatic nose a mile out upon opening. Closer by, solvent, sharp fruity aroma, but also chemical. The ginger. Soapy feel, thick despite the obvious lambic acidity & thinning. Salted prunes and - of course - preserved rosy ginger as with sushi. Sticky, soapy, undercarbonated, sharp fruitiness and feel. Hum. I suggest we leave the preserved ginger on the sushi platter. Not in the drink. Thanks to Stef!
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Gari Lambic from OWA Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The newest Owa lambic to date, this time with a Japanese ingredient that indeed has not been used before (nor in any other beer in the world, perhaps): gari, the pickled ginger used as a side dish to accompany sushi and sashimi. Some minute, egg-white bubbles appear round the edge of the glass right after pouring, but these dissolve all but immediately so that this beer is indeed ‘de facto’ headless; hazy golden blonde with warmer ochre-ish tinge. Aroma is very, but really very strongly dominated by gari – this is ginger all over the place, even in its raw form, completely overruling much subtler notes of sour apple, green pear, cucumber, sourdough, kombucha, piccalilli – and then that ginger again. Tart onset, sour apple and cucumber, but almost immediately after that, the sweetness of the gari (which is partially candied in sugar!) takes over, almost laying a blanket of ‘glacé sweetness’ over the basic tartness, until it fades away again; carbonation remains flat, mouthfeel as a result is a tad watery. Smooth, wheaty base, lots of the gari flavour remaining till deep into the finish, with both sweetness and spicy-soapiness dominating; some tannic woodiness and an earthy funky note appear, adding underlying complexity, but with this kind of ingredient at such doses, this was never going to be subtle, of course. And heck, if you do a gari lambic, then why not go all the way and do it like this… I am sure a good Japanese or otherwise Asian chef could find good use for this product in his cuisine – and I do not mean that in a derogatory way at all. Weird but unique, as often with these Owa lambics; just stay as far away from it as you possibly can if you dislike ginger. I do kind of like it, so this was a lovely sour ginger juice for me, if obviously an one-trick pony…
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Gari Lambic from OWA Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
05/VI/21 - 37.5cl bottle @ home, BB: III/2026 (2021-456) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy orange blond beer, small to no head. Aroma: very funky, lots and lots of ginger, more ginger, lemony, some chlorine, herbal, some basil.MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: wow, this is very spicy, lots and lots of ginger, more ginger, bit lemony, pretty acidic, and sugary at the same time, weird flavour combo. Aftertaste: sweet and sugary, lots and lots of ginger, zesty, lime and lemon peel, very spicy, weird… Not bad, not great, but interesting at least.