0,375l bottle at home shared by Saeglopur, big thanks. Vintage 2018. orange murky color, small white head. smells funky, dusty, some stone fruits, grassy, hay. nice smell. medium body, soft carbonation. tastes funk, citric, grassy, some stone fruits, bit flowery, herbal. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of stone fruits, grassy and earthy notes. very nice taste, smooth to drink. very good beer 7, 4, 8, 4, 16

One of the four new OWA lambics, this one with black currant berries, a fruit of which Japan is a major producer, hence the link with Japan. From the classic 37.5 cl geuze bottle with cork and purple paper folded around the neck. Snow white, mousy but thin and large-bubbled, dissolving head on a ruby red beer with deep purplish hue, hazy, even clouded with sediment. Aroma of lots of sour-and-sweet black currant (cassis juice), bread crumbs, red wine vinegar, dry hay, green tomatoes, grass silage, unsugared forest fruit yoghurt, redcurrant bushes. Sour onset, strongly soaked in unmistakable cassis flavour, adding fructose sweetishness, fruity acidity and that typical spicy flavour associated with fresh black currant berries, clear lemony sourness from the lambic as well, but not too harshly puckering; medium carb, slick wheaty and bread-crusty ‘soil’ with lots of drying fruit and lactic acidity as well as outspoken tannic effects from the skins and seeds of the fruit, likely even more so than from wooden barrel, ending dry with grass silage- and dusty earth-like, Bretty and woody aspects still deeply soaked in cassis. Less ‘exotic’ perhaps than the other three new OWA lambics, all of which have very unusual but fascinating flavour profiles, this one is in all respects an exemplary and delicious black currant lambic, deserving of a high score on this site. I am left wondering why the more ‘classic’ lambic producers do not come up with black currant products more often.