La Source Beer Co. Shiro

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La Source Beer Co. in Laken / Laeken, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Lager - Rice Special
Score
7.46
ABV: 7.5% IBU: - Ticks: 6
For this second release of our hybrid series, we’ve decided to explore sake. The base beer is a quite subtle rice lager with delicate aromas. Then, it’s been transferred to barrels with koji in addition to our house wild culture and we let it rest to evolve and mature quietly.
The end result walks the fine line between two worlds : a sophisticated beverage with no excess.
 

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#kojiGinjo

Tried from Can on 24 Jan 2025 at 17:57


8.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bouteille 37.5cl, BB 14/09/2023, batch# 01.
Couleur dorée/pâle claire, col blanc effervescent disparaissant instantanément.
Arôme présente ici plus la marque de la base 'rice lager' retrouve le côté riz avec un rétro-nasal de brett - levures sauvages, funk - note de raisin fermenté, pomme avec une fine sucrosité en rétro-nasal.
Palais est surprenant, retrouve les bases d'une excellent lager - le riz est un peu en retrait, le tout sur un caractère presque cidre mais avec un effet brett-sauvage et boisé qui arrive en retrait. L'usage de ferment japonais - koji m'était inconnu et de fait le mariage avec les levures sauvages maison de LaSource donne un excellent résultat. Le tout a une base un peu 'boozy' pour être juste à 7.5%.
En retrait cet apport Koji-Shiro verse presque dans l'umami - avec cette sensation presque salée mais sans l'être. C'est délicat et complexe.

Tried from Bottle at La Source Beer Co. - Taproom on 06 May 2022 at 16:59


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

Bottle. Hazy golden color with white head that goes down quickly. Aroma is funky lime, zezty, some wood, lactic. Taste does have some more unusual aspects from the Koji, quite interesting, some riceyness too, hard to describe. Kinda stays on your tongue despite being quite dry. Medium carbonation. Interesting and delicious!

Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2022 at 13:40


7.5

Kanpai!

Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2022 at 21:06


8

Great! Complex!

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2022 at 01:48


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

15/XII/21 - 37.5cl bottle from the brewery @ home, BB: 14/IX/23 (2021-1561) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy yellowish beer, no head. Aroma: funky, nice, lots of brett, lambic, herbal, lemony. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, pretty fruity, metallic touch, dry, bit herbal, wood notes. Aftertaste: bit sourish, metallic touch, bitter, some tannins, decent one.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2021 at 22:30