5.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

2020 version, 5.5%. Deep golden colour with no head or carbonation. Aroma has funk, old fruit, almonds, cassia. Starts out fairly sweet. Almond becomes cinnamon becomes tonka in a sweet, earthy, spiced type of way. Later there's a great lemony tart acidity and pleasant fruity funk. Interesting but with the sweet spice elements it isn't my taste.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at Boutilliers Tap at Coachworks Ashford. quite a harsh sour aroma. some yuzu citrus fruit. very pithy as fruit. not great. apparently it was worse. not great. but ok

6.6

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

Hazy yellow colour with thin head. Aroma is strange in that it has a floral and musty note. Flavour is totally different. Extremely sharp and bitter lemon peel. Fresh,sharp. Drying finish.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

No head; faintly veiled deeper golden beer, almost no carbonation, end of bottle solid yeast. Nice lambic/Brett/horseblanket nose with a fruity acidity superposed. Aromatic, whitecurrant, white/green grapes. Sourish, bit fruity, but also a flavour as from alternative grains/kernels. Floral, faint citrus. Yeast however gives an off-flavour, hinting at rotten fruit. Slight astringency, acidburn, feels somehow carbonated if utterly invisible. Nice nose, but the rest is a bit in minor key, certainly for a fruitlambic. Thanks to Stef!

7.4

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

Backlog March 2018. Clear golden body under a moderate sized white had. A bit odd in aroma, fruity, wood and hint of cherry and cinnamon. Taste is sweet and sour with malt, fruit, lemon, vinegar, wood and funky. Fine body and long lasting aftertaste. A bit different kind of lambic, pretty complex and nice.

6

Mar2025, smells delicious, like tons of fresh peaches, but the flavor matches the average rating a bit. Vinegar and acidic tartness is all over, my tummy hurts. Also the nose disappears quick, either that or the acid has dissolved my senses.

8.1

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

It has been a while now but here it is: a new Japanese-themed OWA lambic, this time with adzuki beans, a particular Asian species of legume which reached Japan from China and Korea centuries ago and was adopted there as a popular ingredient in mainly sweets (such as a sweet red bean pasta called anko, applied in desserts), because of their natural nutty-sweet flavour. On paper at least, this seems more suitable to use in lambic than some of the ingredients highlighted in earlier OWA lambics... From a 37.5 cl 'gueuze' bottle with the familiar origami-like paper around the neck (pale pink this time); opens with a hiss, but no gushing. Medium thick, egg-white, tiny-bubbled, slowly and partially opening but otherwise very stable head lacing in a pattern of shreds over a hazy apricot blonde beer with pale ochre-orange tinge. Aroma of drying lemon peel, wet wood, grass silage, lightly toasted sunflower seeds, old bread crust, unripe mandarin, green plum, hints of old dry sherry, apple vinegar, dust, old cracked leather, sorrel and indeed something vaguely cashew-nutty from what I assume are the adzuki beans, but very volatile and all but completely gone after a while. Crisp, acidic onset, sharpish lemony sour and a bit puckering, but the sharpest edges of the sourness quickly retreat and make way for a softer, more 'deep' and noble lactic sourness, while impressions of crabapple, unripe stonefruit and green gooseberry pass by, adding a fair amount of 'green plant'-like astringency which lasts till deep into the finish; minerally side 'stings' but softly so, full body, nice bread-crusty and old dry cracker-like maltiness and graininess under a thick layer of astringent unripe fruit, lactic acid and dusty and tannic woodiness. Some Brettanomyces retronasally as well (dry old leather in this case), and a crisp, unripe citrus-like sourness lingering at the back - but apart from that astringent effect, becoming bitter-sour in the end (in a pleasant, quenching way, mind you), I cannot find anything of the sweet nuttiness associated with adzuki beans, only an additional 'vegetal' bitterness. Too subtle in its flavouring ingredient - yet, considering the sometimes utterly bizarre flavours in earlier OWA lambics, this may not be a bad thing. Granted, it does not entirely deliver what it promises for me, but it is a fine, characterful, dry and noble lambic regardless - perhaps even among the finest in this series so far, at least of the more recent ones, so have a decent score. Kampai!

7.8

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

0,375l bottle at home. BB 02/2021. orange very hazy color, basically no head. smells weird, smoke, earthy, grassy, citric, some tea aroma, peppery. bit weird smell, I like the smoke notes, but smells a bit off. medium body, no carbonation. tastes of plums, honey, ginger, earthy, bit peppery, sake yeasty kind of taste, peppery. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of ginger, honey and peppery notes. gets very gingery / honey forward once it warms, I actually quite like the taste, very nice one.