Kurde, owa sa nijakie w chuj gdzie jakas dzikosc? Gdzie chocby te jablka? Nie no, zwietrzale takie

Tu sa jakies wisnie? Cos owocowego w smaku, aromat to wlasciwie pustawa mineralnosc... takie nic zlego nic dobrego, nuda panie

Wyjowy troche, agresywny, niecomoctowy, niebaudzo.

Cytrynowo-pigwowy ten lambik. Malo dzikosci, fajna owocowa kwasnosc...

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

Pieprz ziolowy moze faktycznie. Ale calosc jakas taka nieporywajaca. Posmak jest znow pieprzowy. Drewniano taniczne kapke. Nie porywa ale pojebanany momentami pozytywnie

Kiszonka bardziej niz dziczyzna a do tego jeszcze nie ma prawie aromatu. Wodnisty. Jest slabo generalnie

Oj, taki ostry, drewniano-octowy, pusty teoche, nie nie, nieporywa zupelnie. Jedyna zaleta - ciekawa nuta przyprawowo-lisciasta w aromacie

Nie zgadlbym mandarynek. Wytrawne. Malo dzikosci. A ta co jest kapke kiblowa. Kapka octu. Spora kwasnosc. Dobre puwi takise lambik

Another new OWA lambic, consisting of young De Troch lambic infused with some or other Japanese ingredient – in this case, as per the very sketchy description on the label (‘Japanse kriek’) and the drawing on the front label, seemingly with Japanese cherries (‘sakura’) and thus a mere repetition of the Sakura Lambic they already made in 2012; in reality, however, ‘sakurambo’ was used, which is not cherries but Japanese black tea flavoured with Japanese cherries. A very big difference, so let this be a warning to those expecting an ‘oude kriek’ of sorts (like me before opening the bottle)! Bubbly, irregular, snow white, bit mousy but thin head with a disrupted waferthin veil in the middle, dissolving into as good as nothing over a misty deep ‘old gold’ beer with warm apricot hue, turning more clouded with sediment. Aroma of old dry grapefruit, bitter and tannin-rich black tea, furniture wax (maybe somehow related to the tea as well) and freshly polished wood, lemon zest, grass silage, crabapple, unripe green plum, wry grape skin, bitter garden weeds (dandelion, sow thistle), bread crumbs, dry cider – and no ‘real’ cherries. Estery onset, sour apples, unripe stonefruit, grape skin, soft in carbonation, slick and bit resinous mouthfeel; lactic tartness runs through the whole with a dry effect, but the ‘fruity’ acidity remains fairly soft in this one. Dry-bready base, strongly dried by tannins from the wood of the lambic barrels, but much more so by the tannins from the black tea, adding wryness, bitterness and quite some background complexity, as well as a ‘dark green’ herbal quality, almost like tree leaves. Straw bale-, white pepper- and old dry grapefruit peel-like impressions further adorn the finish, but again cherries as such remain all but absent. I’m curious to see how many more beer people will react to this one with confusion and incomprehension, expecting a cherry lambic… I personally would have presented this experiment differently with much less emphasis on the cherries – and much more on the black tea, which is not even mentioned on the label. Anyway, judged for what this really is – yet another weird and exotic OWA interpretation of our lambic heritage – I must say that I did like it, it has this ‘dark green’ bitter herbalness and very heavily tannic quality to it which is anything but easy (so this most certainly is not a beginners’ lambic!), but I was left with a feeling that I just ingested something beneficial to my health… An interesting one for sure, challenging and a bit bizarre as most of these OWA lambics are (especially the ones containing other ingredients than fruit).