Lychee Lambic
OWA Brewery in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij De TrochLambic Style - Fruit Regular
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Score
7.02
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Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Lychee Lambic from OWA Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
Draught Typical yeastpoints floating on top of still, orangey - copper beer. Lambic-y nose with horseblanket and farmyard odours; fruity esters. Despite the 'lychee' announced, not sweet. Lots of meaty esters, however, almost salami-like. Sharpish sour apple-like acidity. Acidthinning to light bodied. Utterly uncarbonated. Very unsettling. No lychee, no CO², no life and little spontaneity...
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Lychee Lambic from OWA Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours a clear blonde. No real head. Scent is funky, lambic takes the lead, but is very rough and raw. Old socks... Not very fruity. To 'De Troch' to me :/ Taste is very acidic, funky, cheesy, very malty, mildly acetic . Herbal notes rather than fruity. Not bad, but not great...
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Lychee Lambic from OWA Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Though the lychee may be native to southern China, Japan is of course familiar with the fruit as well and grows it on a small scale in some southern, warmer parts of the archipelago – so adding a lychee lambic to this notorious Japan-themed lambic series seems not so far-fetched. Bottle shared with tderoeck; no gushing in our case, possibly because it had been continuously standing in the fridge for many weeks in advance and we only slowly let it warm up a bit before removing the cork (and the origami-like silk paper typifying Owa lambic bottles). Snow white, moussy, crackling, dissipating head, cloudy yellow blonde robe with lemony hue, bit ‘milky’ in the end. Aroma of indeed sweet and aromatic lychee but very volatile and irretrievably gone after a few seconds, moldy lemons, wet old wood, armpit sweat note (Brettanomyces), raspberry vinegar, green apple, damp hay, stale lime juice, green melon, wet leather. Crisp onset, quite some lemony acidity, sour redcurrant and unripe mandarin notes, some vague lychee fleshiness perhaps but not nearly enough to convey the fruit in any ‘concrete’ kind of way; fizzy carb, sourdoughy malt core strongly dried by fruity and lactic acidity, even a bit burning at first but mellowing down further on. Again a retronasal lychee aroma, unmistakable as it is, pops up, but only very faintly and very briefly so – blink and you will miss it. Long, dry, woody, lactic-sour and ‘funky’ finish, drying sourness and tannic effects, ‘dim’ bitterness and only the slightest touch of sweetness in the very end, probably from those lychees again. In itself a decent De Troch lambic, but the lychee addition remains much more subtle than expected (compared with other Owa lambics) and hoped (because I love lychee and was really curious to how it would work in a lambic context). Feels like a missed opportunity somehow…
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Lychee Lambic from OWA Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
18/VIII/22 - 37.5cl bottle @ Alengrin’s place, BB: XI/2026 (2022-1009) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
SLOW GUSHER ALERT!
Pretty cloudy pale yellow beer, big aery irregular head, crackling down quickly. Aroma: lots of lambic, brett notes, pretty funky, fruity, citrus, orange peel, dry, spicy impression, pretty weird and a bit funky. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty fruity, nice acidity, good, dry, lemony, a bit of sweetness. Aftertaste: lemon juice, lemon rind, pretty bitter as well, nice one, peaches, dry, nice brett notes, pretty good acidity, more peaches and apricots, nice!
mike_77 (15884) reviewed Lychee Lambic from OWA Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
WARNING! Mega gusher! Hazy pale blond colour. Carbonation subsides fairly quickly. Aroma has a touch of vanilla sweetness. Very tart taste, nicely fruity though. The normally mild lychee does come through but this has more of a lemony citrus overall as can be expected from the base lambic. One of the best from Owa despite the gusher.