Drebus (8639) reviewed Kuro Grand Cru from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home. Very dark colour, off-white head. Smells glue, malts, alcohol. Tastes a very sweet maltyness, slightly roasty.. Medium body, fizzy carbo.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Kuro Grand Cru from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle shared by Dutchdrebus. Clear ruby red color with a light brown head that diminishes fairly quickly. Smell is weird, a mix of glue, paint and wine, but somehow it’s not that bad. Taste malts, slightly apple, slightly alcohol, a champagne-like sweetness. I actually like the combination. Medium a bit tingling carbonation and a decent body. A lot better than expected.
gunnfryd (21926) reviewed Kuro from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is sourness. rubber, malt, caramel. Flavour is roasted malt, sourness, caramel, sugar, alcohol, dried fruits. Medium to full body. OK beer.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kuro from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Thick, beige head over deep brown to black beer. Spicy-sourish nose, sourness reminding me of rhubarb. Roasted, too, of course. Roasted, especially retronasal with a warming backthroat. The initial taste, however, is watery sweet-sourish, with some lactic acid. Roasted, but with precious little bitterness. After some time, it gains some Oud Bruin reminiscences; Feels very carbonated and very thin bodywise (I have trouble believing the 8% ABV). Seems to present some sulphur (H²S) in the aftertaste. Weird, very weird.
Tinus (5080) reviewed Ume Lambic from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Golden colour, small white head, light floaties. Quite tart aroma, fresh fruity, lemon, mint and perfume. Sour, light sweet flavour, fruity, apricot, light plum. Tart fruity finish, prunes and overripe fruits.
Quite nice actually.
(From 75cL bottle @ RBBSG II, Wilrijk. Bottle 055/100. Courtesy of 77ships. Thanks Eugene!)
77ships (14506) reviewed Ume Lambic from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
75 cl. bottle sampled @ RBBSG 2012 // bottle nr. 55/100 // 2 yr. old lambic aged for 1 yr. with Japanese prunes in Japan & shipped back // mainly sold apparently in Japanese restaurants and a handful of Japanese specialty stores // no idea what the lambic used is, Oud Beersel is my best guess but no guarantee that is for sure // murky apricot, no head // smell is sweet with some perfume, despite the bottle saying that this uses no perfume like lambic’s usually do. this smells more like apricots and peaches than plums to me // sweet plums, peach, apricot blend, sweet lemon, sweeter lambic, light sourness in the back, lemon, fruity, quite and certainly some perfume // mellow easy body, not much carb. // sweet & fruity but quite fun // may need more time but don’t think I will pick up one more given the price I have 100 % confirmation that the lambic used came from De Troch.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Ume Lambic from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A huge thanks to 77ships for sharing this bottle. Murky yellow color, small white head. Aroma of citrus, peach, plum. Taste is sweet summer fruit with a very subtle sour edge. If I had more of this I’d lay it down for a year or so.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Ume Lambic from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle sample @ 2nd RBBSG, August 11th 2012. Courtesy of 77ships. Yet another brew from the ever elusive Leo Imai. No idea where the lambic came from. Bottle 55/100. Significantly better than my previously rated Sakura lambic which was way too young, this version using Ume shows some of the sweetness to have started to fade away. Still, room for improvement remains. Dorée, col blanc moyen. Arôme fruité avec en effet des notes de prunes assez parfumé et fleuri, en retrait, on note un léger côté boisé/lambic. Palais reste encore malgré les qcq mois de bouteilles assez doux, fruité laissant une pointe de pétillant/épicé et fruité de prune en bouche avec un côté boisé de chêne que l’on retrouve dans le lambic sur ce côté cuire. Une bière qui peut évoluer mais qui pourrait aussi profiter de meilleures explications du brasseur sur comment, où et quel lambic sont utilisés.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Ume Lambic from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as OWA Ume Lambic (by OWA Brewery SPRL):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
11/VIII/2012 - 75cl bottle @ RBBSG - bottle # 55 - (2012-881) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy yellowish to beige beer, no head. Aroma: bit metallic, lots of chloride, bit floral, some apple skin, bit chemical, some citrus and yuzu fruit or something. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet start, some green sweet ripe prunes, sourish touch, bit lemony, some wood. Aftertaste: ripe to overripe fruits, very mellow sourness, quite some bretta stuff in the end, green apple skin.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Ume Lambic from OWA Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Sampled at RBBSG, bottle #55/100. Hazy, lightly murky yellow to orange color, no head. Smell and taste sourness, a hint of perfume, some fruityness. Low to medium carbo and body.