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Zwanze 2013 - Abbaye de Cureghem
Brasserie Cantillon
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- From:
- Brasserie Cantillon
- Belgium
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 13.59%
- Reviews:
- 30
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 16, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 31, 2013
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 3
"This Zwanze is not a Lambic. As you know, everyone can produce an abbey beer in Belgium, and my goal was to brew a top fermentation 'abbey style' mixed with a double spontaneous inoculation (natural one coming from the wild yeast present in the brewery and from the 10% Lambic we added after the first fermentation."
"In Brussels dialect, 'zwanzer' is joking—and if we called this beer Abbaye de Cureghem, it's to laugh about the fake legend built around some belgian abbey beers. Cantillon is located in the Cureghem area but the Cureghem Abbey never existed!"
"In Brussels dialect, 'zwanzer' is joking—and if we called this beer Abbaye de Cureghem, it's to laugh about the fake legend built around some belgian abbey beers. Cantillon is located in the Cureghem area but the Cureghem Abbey never existed!"
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Reviewed by aleigator from Germany
4.18/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a completely clouded amber color with a small, fluffy white lacing.
Smells like a sweet, spicy tripel with wild honey added, just offering a hint of tartness on the nose.
Drinks extremely mellow, supersoft on the tongue, with a perfectly fitting, sparkly effervescence during the finish.
Tastes entirely different than it smells, since the flavors are way less sweet than the nose indicated, with just a note of toffee cutting through lots of basement funk. After its initial softness, the beer turns quite dry and herbal, with lots of mushrooms and blue cheese joining in. Finishes with a spicy note, more funk and an omnipresent, teeth numbing dryness, all together creating a great harmony on the tongue.
This is unique, the tripel characteristic blends perfectly into the lambic sourness, topped off by a pungent, dry aftertaste.
Oct 02, 2017Smells like a sweet, spicy tripel with wild honey added, just offering a hint of tartness on the nose.
Drinks extremely mellow, supersoft on the tongue, with a perfectly fitting, sparkly effervescence during the finish.
Tastes entirely different than it smells, since the flavors are way less sweet than the nose indicated, with just a note of toffee cutting through lots of basement funk. After its initial softness, the beer turns quite dry and herbal, with lots of mushrooms and blue cheese joining in. Finishes with a spicy note, more funk and an omnipresent, teeth numbing dryness, all together creating a great harmony on the tongue.
This is unique, the tripel characteristic blends perfectly into the lambic sourness, topped off by a pungent, dry aftertaste.
Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
4.23/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Abbyaye de Curreghem
Consumed 3/2017
White head. Golden bronze.
A very nice version of a tripel. The lambic shows nicely here. Lemon citrus, but not too acidic. Funky and oaky. A bit dry. White wine notes. Pears and dried fruit skins. Light herbal spice.
Light to medium bodied. Ends dry with tannin and Brett notes.
A very fun beer to try. For a tripel, I really enjoyed it.
Apr 26, 2017Consumed 3/2017
White head. Golden bronze.
A very nice version of a tripel. The lambic shows nicely here. Lemon citrus, but not too acidic. Funky and oaky. A bit dry. White wine notes. Pears and dried fruit skins. Light herbal spice.
Light to medium bodied. Ends dry with tannin and Brett notes.
A very fun beer to try. For a tripel, I really enjoyed it.
Reviewed by Sludgeman from District of Columbia
3.95/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.95/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
I thought this tasted just as described - mostly a tripel blended with some lambic. A unique and distinctive taste. The aroma is almost all tripel. For me it was a great bottle to have at the table to taste in between other pure lambics.
But based purely on style this is certainly not a classic tripel so mind your expectations.
Apr 19, 2017But based purely on style this is certainly not a classic tripel so mind your expectations.
Zwanze 2013 - Abbaye de Cureghem from Brasserie Cantillon
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
249 ratings
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