Hakusekikan Shizen Bakushu (Lambic)

Formerly brewed at Hakusekikan Beer/Stone Iwamoto Co.
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Ena-gun, Gifu, Japan

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle shared by STLWill- thanks, Will, for sharing this oddity. Pours a hazy gold color with a small white head. Aroma immediately gives off a big skunky note, with grass, sweet malts, and bready funk. The flavor had some skunk but not as much, bready and pale malts, apple, lemon, and sugar. Light-medium bodied, with medium carbonation and a tart, bready, skunky, dry mouthfeel. Like a skunked green bottle lager with a shot of lemon juice in it.

The pour is a hazy golden/yellow color with a tall white head. Smells really, really funky. Rice, anise, lots of barnyard, and tons of yeast. Sort of a sake like aroma to it. A bit of citrus and bread, too. Light lactic tartness on the back end. The flavor is similarly interesting. Intense funk of yeast and bacteria. Sake, rice, light mildew, and barnyard. Definite anise, some malt, citrus peel, and lemon. I actually thought this was pretty good.

Creamed corn nose. Fizzy, cloudy, pale yellow. Flavor is lemon, but heavily dominated by cream corn. Lambic? Wild ale? I say, infected ale.

Pours like fizzy yellow beer except that it has a slight yet mysterious gray haze to it. The head was white..shrank pretty fast but started out fairly tall. Nose combined things like lager yeast and sour grapes as well as some hefeweizen-like smells in background. Flavors were somewhat redeeming though I think...very light and lagery but with a soft tartness making it considerably more refreshing than it would have been otherwise. Body is pretty light..in fact, it’s kind of like a bottom fermented semi-wild lager.. I don’t see an ale yeast producing this...but what do I know, it says "Wild Yeast Ale" on the bottle. The carbonation here is also quite fierce and abundant. Now, if this 12oz bottle wasn’t $6.40, I could see this as an interesting session beer on a hot summer day...but $6.40 for a 12oz bottle of this is kind of retarded. In any event, tastes like a decent and clean japanese lager with a touch of tartness.

Bottle pours gold with a white head. Aroma is yeasty with a touch of tart citrus and wheat. Flavor shows the same with additional notes of apple, apricot and a touch of funk. Thin and somewhat tart.

Yellow pour, light white head. Aroma is yeasty, fruity, barely any hint of sourness. Flavor is yeasty, lightly tart, light manure...interesting.

Pours a cloudy yellow color with a creamy white head. Pleasant aroma of wild yeast, wheat and citrus. Good flavor of citrus, wheat and wild yeast. The body is light with a creamy texture and soft carbonation. Interesting, more brewers should experiment by including wild yeast in a witbier.

Thanks to blutt59 for sharing this bottle. The beer pours a murky light yellow color with a white head. The aroma is wheat with some light tartness. The flavor is tart with sour lemons and sour wheat notes. Overall, a relatively low level of tartness but the finish is quite tart. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

(Bottle, courtesy of blutt59) Pours a lightly hazy yellow body with a moderate white head. Aroma of wheat, citrus, apricot, and some horseblanket. Flavor lemon, wheat, grass, brett, and herbs.

The look is clear, yellow in color, and no head. The smell is fruits, tart, light, more fruits, and tangy. The taste is fruits, tart, tang, light body.