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OWA Brewery, Ume Lambic, Just When you Thought I was PLUM OUT of Lambic Reviews

On this one episode of Tailspin, Kid Cloudkicker jumps out of a plane with a bag of table salt and pours it into the clouds. The result is that it starts raining due to a chemical reaction with the salt and the cumulus clouds.

I don’t know how to science but, in today’s review I am going to make it rain on these tickers with a 100 bottle lambic release from the Pajizzzotenland.

YMCMB MAYBACH MUSIC MUSTARDONTHEBEAT.

Gotta have some srs plums to go after obscure Japanese lambic.

Gotta have some srs plums to go after obscure Japanese lambic.

OWA Brewery SPRL
Brewed at Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic Style – Fruit
Bruxelles, Belgium
5.5% Abv

100 bottle release

A: This beer presents with a bit darker hue than I anticipated but also doesn’t really have any fuschia or magenta from the ume tannins- OH WAIT, that’s probably because ume looks like this you ignorant fuck:

peach pears plums I am inches

peach pears plums I am inches

so the carb comes out in soapy bubbles you could count individually and rises up to an eggshell collar that subsides pretty quickly but, nothing too apeshit, all things considered. There is insubstantial lacing and the legs are watery with minimal cling. The center of this beer is very inviting, got that amber meets wulfenite sort of glow to it. Google wulfenite and leave me the fuck alone.

Time for a trip to Japan or...Belgium. wait fuk

Time for a trip to Japan or…Belgium. wait fuk

S: This is a tasty treat for the old face holes. At the outset you get a light sweetness like lemon meringue that subsides into a citrus acidity akin to a tangelo, there is a touch of musk and cheesiness that is almost like topsoil/silt, it closes with a zesty Sierra mist lime that is ultra inviting. It’s like when the woman is all on them satin sheets running her hand in a small circle and YOU WAKE UP ON THE METRO WITH A VISIBLE ERECTION OH GOD DAMN IT.

T: This takes the foregoing Sprite and tangerine aspects and ratchets them up to levels that can only be described as “mid to extremely trill.” The first swallow is a 160 bpm trap beat that cascades sweet, brackish, then tart in those waves. You get this opener kinda similar to lime lucas, if you grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood. It subsides into a sweet honeysuckle and grapefruit pith bitterness. Finally the closer comes out and it tightens up the game with a sort of “aged Printemps” sort of lemon-lime feel to it. It is never exceedingly sweet, and remains drinkably tart, yet has this bitterness like citrus rind to keep everyone in check. It could use a touch more from the attic fairy, but I imagine that will come with time, as will I.

The malts are restrained and take on a new, equally amazing form

The malts are restrained and take on a new, equally amazing form

M: This has a bit more heft than I would want out of a fruited lambic, but never drags deep into that honey coating too aggressively. It is dry but balanced by a light sweetness along the gumline that combos into the next sip like Glacius. Alright people complain my references are too obscure, you want to know who the fuck Glacius is?

There you go. That's Glacius, do you even Killer Instinct?

There you go. That’s Glacius, do you even Killer Instinct?

He is excellent at ground-air combos. Alright can we get back to the fucking review? Ok so take that lemon lime and add a bit of acidity, not much, but say in the realm of a young 3F Kriek, just enough to keep the blue vein pumping. It is fully satisfying.

D: This is exceptionally drinkable with the caveat that you keep it under 55 degrees. The honey and sweet aspects closer to room temp make the sweetness a bit heavy handed when it gets warm but, what the fuck is wrong with you, letting 100 bottle Japanese lambics get all hot you insensitive asshole? All in all, a very good lambic likely unlike any other offerings you have tried. I guess you could mix 2006 Doesjel with 2006 Printemps and get a similar, less bright execution. In fact, go do that, report back to me. I posted a pic of this in a Facebook beer group all warming up my rotator cuff thinking I was about to serve up a backdoor breaking ball on some tickers. People had zero fucks to spare, too bust doling out Likes for KBS pictures. But that is part of the reason why you are here, and not fingering your dickhole talking to some anti-In Bev noob. We have the same issues. The type of beer drinkers who seek out this type of shit are not the ones who review Hopslam by reading the label in present progressive tense “”getting hoppy, getting malts, getting yeast, getting water, getting Bell’s, getting Michigan. getting…a guy with a hop cone on him…getting barcode…”

You expect some naughty funk but get some citrus loving instead.

You expect some naughty funk but get some citrus loving instead.

Narrative: Tetsuo Otomo was the most esteemed botanist in all of Kyoto and his scientific renown brought inquiries from across the globe. Upon the behest of the European Union, Mr. Otomo traveled to the Senne Valley to analyze the ground-water table and its effects on the local fauna. “Hmm…ish a nooo good,” he noted in a borderline offensive accent “glound tabre has too much a sart! Need nitrogen frixation, lower minelal crontent.” The group of Belgian geologists nodded and took copious notes. Mr. Otomo returned to Brussels shortly thereafter and engineered a super strain of Japanese Plum that would convert the atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at an alarming rate. The process drastically boosted the presence of the diazotrophs, creating a super flora in the classic valley. Soon even the mildest glass of kolsch exposed to the air became an acidic wild ale, almost instantly. German tourists brought kegs and kegs of tepid wit biers over in droves to contaminate and vastly improve their pedestrian ales. Tetsuo had solved a problem with plums, but created a larger one by way of ignorant assholes from abroad.

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Taking the Site in a New Direction: Encouraging People New to Beer To Try New Beers! Drink Local!

I thought long and hard about what a trivial endeavor the last 3 years of Dont Drink Beer has been: reviewing rare beers, making fun of people who take beer seriously, never buying a single beer off of a regular shelf.

I am so embarassed with my conduct and I wanted to take the site in a new direction: everyone should be able to enjoy tasty suds!

There’s no point in highlighting the best beers in the world when, THE BEST BEER IS THE ONE IN YOUR HAND! Sorry, I saw that on my friend’s Pintrest profile and wanted to “borrow” it LOL.  But supes serial, beer should just be all about fun times and never making anyone feel bad just because they are misinformed, selfish, or attempting to pull one over on the beer community.  Life is too short for bad vibes!

From now on the site will consist mostly of reviewing mixed 12 packs from Sam Adams or whatever seasonals I can find at the grocery store, and taking the reviews very seriously.  I noticed that I had strayed pretty far from my BJCP adjective guidelines (why did I even take the test if I don’t use the certificate amiright!?!) so now we are getting rid of similes or any descriptions that someone who reads the Hunger Games Novels could not understand.  Beer is all inclusive and beer REVIEWS should be for everyone, too!

I noticed that I had not reviewed enough red ales, ambers, or kolschs in the past and we are going to fix that asap! I am going to be compiling nothing but top 10 lists from here on out composed strictly of beers distributed everywhere in the United States.  I mean, why go and just drink the beer that’s sitting on the shelf, when you can read my opinion about it first! 

OK SO HERE WE GO!

Top 10 Best Brunch Beers with Your Besties:
10. Rogue Hazelnut (mmm coffee treats!)

9. Miller Fortune (fortune favors the bold (omelette!))

8. Chainbreaker White IPA (Exotic, like Yerba Matte tea)

7. Stone (the light one, not the heavy one (it’s breakfast))

6.  Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout (order it with oatmeal~~it’s a pair made in heaven)

5. Sam Adams Alpine Spring (OMG, perfect with scones when you’re dishing gossip.)

4. New Belgium Hoptober Ale (the hops should be mellow now and not hot, great with cronuts mmm)

3. Michelob Ultra (perfect after a spinning class or HOT BIKRAM YOGA, can you say yummmm?)

2.  Shocktop Honeycrisp Apple Wheat (it’s like apple juice, try it with a belgian waffle OMG pastry heaven)

and the number one beer to have at brunch with your besties is….

1. WILD BLUE BLUEBERRY BEER! (can u say WHOA, 8% abv, it’s liek a blueberry mimosa to sip on while you get caught up on NASHVILLE or Scandal, order it with pancakes and you will be in FRUIT HEAVEN!)

 

 

I hope you guys like the new layout, we aren’t going to have pictures anymore because I feel like its bad karma to not respect copyrights, from now on it’s going to be all about the EXPERIENCE of beer.  Post in the comments if you want me to review something new or PLEASE SEND ME BEERS TO REVIEW THAT WOULD BE SUPES AH-MAZE.

 

TTYL ❤ xoxox

DDB

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YOUR INACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, T-shirts now sold out. Go twist your nutsack.

Alright, unless you are an XL, every single DDB shirt has been pre-ordered and is currently sold out.

At the next beer release, remaining t-shirts may be fired at children from a T-shirt cannon at close range because, why the fuck did you bring them to a beer release in the first place.

For everyone who isn’t a sloppy labiaed, irresponsible reader, check your email for payment and shipping info.

 

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2006 Westvleteren Green Cap: Gentlemen/Maldjuster Tickers Prefer Blondes

Oh man, DDB is dusting off the old vinyls and bringing out the classic jams. None of these whaley adjunct stouts or mid-90s extinct beers in today’s review, just a classic, delicious trappist ale. I know many of you almost just unsubscribed in disappointment. To appease the whaler contingency, I am reviewing the Westy Green cap: 2006 edition. That 8 year old bottle make you feel some type of way.

Let’s hit the monastery for some hot blondes in today’s review.

the classic "GOTTA PUT THE CAP BRO OTHERWISE THEY WONT KNOW GOTTA HAVE EM KNOWING BOUT YOUR TICK SESH MAN"

the classic “GOTTA PUT THE CAP BRO OTHERWISE THEY WONT KNOW GOTTA HAVE EM KNOWING BOUT YOUR TICK SESH MAN”

Brouwerij Westvleteren (Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren)
Belgium

Style | ABV
Belgian Pale Ale | 5.80% ABV

A: This pours a relatively thin, hazy straw color with nice frothy bubbles like the soap in the Sir Mix a Lot “Put em on the Glass” video. The lacing is nice and sheets in wispy thin ropes not unlike an underfunded retirement party. The core is pretty radiant and the whole thing just comes across like a baby saison, sucking on that farmhouse pacifier in the perambulator.

Reviewing Blondes, Meanwhile, there are still dipshits on trade boards acting like Huna and Black Note are walezbro.

Reviewing Blondes, Meanwhile, there are still dipshits on trade boards acting like Huna and Black Note are walezbro.

S: The ratcheted down saison vibes continue and the execution is quintissentially belgian. In American parlance you order a blonde and you get pale malts and pils, like some boring kolsch. This is not the case here, there is a substantial honey and clove, light grassiness like Foret in a way, but cleaner, the beer closes with a cornbread sort of waft that is inviting. It’s like a delicious trip down the bakery aisle if the bakery was outside, after the lawn was just cut. FANTASY BAKERIES.

T: This tastes clean and carries the honey crescendo with gentle spice not unlike coriander or white pepper, touch of pale sweetness, zero hop profile, and the belgian esters provide a sort of half hearted banana bread finisher, but the whole affair is just gentle like the orderly wiping your taint with the utmost of care. It is a very pleasant beer to drink and comes across like a sessionable farmhouse, which is something this world is always in dire need of. If you have had some of Stillwater’s low abv offerings like their table beer, THIS SHIT or any of their belgian singles, you know the drill. It is a clean crisp bite into an Anjou pear and you will probably cum.

Sometimes you can just enjoy a simple blonde ale and not dedicate your whole life to it.

Sometimes you can just enjoy a simple blonde ale and not dedicate your whole life to it.

M: The mouthfeel is incredibly soft and washes away clean with a gentle water profile that leaves pillowy clove and a honey wateriness along the gumline, just exceedingly comforting and intensely drinkable. The age on this was exceptional and lended to profile the drinkability at the expense of the “brightness” I am sure, taking it away from the realm of a Belgian Pale into the infant farmhouse execution, light musk in the closer, I am 100% ok with that. Obviously take any deviant but I would recommend these with a lil age on them, having had this a whopping 2 times in my life, I am clearly a fucking expert.

D: This is more crushable than a position at a Recycling Center. You can put these away endlessly, avoid a huge buzz, avoid a huge hangover, pilot your Eliminator, put it in the cupholder of your quad or whatever things people do when they aren’t looking out the tiny basement windows into the world above. I want more of this but I am too lazy to go get it, plus i feel like I and rimming myself when I seek out hoppy or sessionable beers for trades. Whenever a growler of Live Oak Hef lands I am like “ALRIGHT! Live Oa-” and all 2 liters is gone. I have no self control and this beer will prolly make you touch yourself, but like that, it will be over quickly and you remember you have laundry in the dryer. So everyone wins with this beer, I guess.

At first you may think this beer simple, but then you fall in love with its strange complexity.

At first you may think this beer simple, but then you fall in love with its strange complexity.

Narrative: Maxime shivered and watched his breath cascaded out in lingering mist. Belgium never seemed so far away as he looked out upon the expanse of the taiga belt. His breath came in wispy mist and he thought back to the Pajottenland Just north he could see frozen scrubbrush and south he saw his task at hand: lumbering. Mile after mile of looming coniferous enemies, waited to be felled. His members only jacket provided minimal warmth and made him long for the oppressive heat during the days that he would harvest palm hearts. “MAXIME! MAN THE FELLERBUNCHER AND START WORKING ON THE LICHEN AREAS!” He knew that he was a competent lumberjack, but he longed for his lumber jill, Oceane, left behind in his home land. He would serve amiably in either profession, but he could not help but feel a bit out of place under the watchful eye of the demanding Canadian foreman. At his core, he was simple industrious Belgian man, others might overlook his clam demeanor, but he was a wonderous man capable of felling Palm and Gymnosperm alike.