Gueuze 100% Lambic
Brasserie Cantillon

Cantillon Brewery, Brussels

Looked, tasted, felt like vomit resulted from alcohol poisoning.

Horrendous.

Gex.

Bottle pour- opaque dark golden color with quickly dissipating white head. Nose is a bit funky with hints of tart fruit and yeast.. Taste follows with a a tart and tangy crispness. An interesting brew that I liked more than expected.

 

 

Rich gold body is almost copper, clear and shining, forming a fine fizzy head, off white and holding retention for a little over a minute before dwindling to a thin layer.
Aroma is lightly tart and fruity like white grapes, wheat, honey.
Fresh, bright, and light - feels like summer in an orchard; reminiscent of spanish sidre, with flavours of crisp sweet/tart apples and hay, with a whisper of funk, a light lactic tang, the freshest mountain water, oak; it's the perfect level of sourness, enough to make you smack your lips, but not pucker; the finish is dry and flavour lingers; the feel is prickly and finely effervescent, medium bodied, crisp yet silky.

Beautiful in it's simplicity and refinement. Not particularly complex, it is pure and deftly crafted, and approachable.

 

Bottle received from @snaotheus in Bif14 shenagians poured into a teku from that same schnickelfritz

Creamy white one finger foam layer over a translucent golden liquid with active carbonation streams , settles to a solid layer with spotty lacings

Aroma is tart, yeasty , cidery

Taste is tart , maybe apple, maybe pear, definitely tart and sour

Lip puckering, thirst quenching tart yet a smooth crisp mouthfeel

Good beer , world class. Thank you for your generosity in getting me this beer tick

Wicked awesome, wicked Pissah!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brasserie Cantillon 'Gueuze 100% Lambic @ 5.5% , served from a corked 750 ml bottle 2019 vintage & corked 375 ml bottle 2021 vintage
A-pour is gold from the bottle to a hazy gold in the glass with a quick dissipating off-white head leaving a streaky lacing along the chalice
S-wheat , malted barley
T-such a true sour beer , yet refreshing , thirst quenching , last pour getting all the goodness out the bottle is so tart
MF-somewhat mild carbonation , medium body , not a warming beer
Ov-this beer makes you wanna go pee
prost LampertLand

 

Look - slight hazy copper yellow with a nice rimming and lacing
Smell - Tart scent with some pear and citrus
Taste - possibly some tart pear with with citrus like the scent
Feel - Dry with a slight carb
Ovearll - Pretty great classic tart lambic

 

 

 

375 ml bottle. Dated August 27, 2020.

Pours a lightly cloudy bright golden color with a small white cap. Modest retention. Leaves a few legs of lacing along the glass as the head dissipates.

Strong aromas of barnyard funk, white wine vinegar, pears, stone fruit and citrus zest. Lighter notes of oak, grass, green apple, and vanilla.

The taste has a lot of white wine grape and pears, as well as green apple, apricot, lemon, yeast and lime zest. There's also plenty of oak and vanilla. Subtly grassy and tannic. Tart, but not overly so.

The feel is light and extremely effervescent. Crisp. Exceptionally dry on the finish.

Overall, this is a fantastic beer. It's wonderfully complex yet very drinkable. This is not a style I'm an expert on, but I know a great beer when I have one and this one is truly great.

 

 

 

been meaning to try this for a long time but it is tricky to find in dublin, found myself in an off license on baggot street yesterday and picked it up, bottled june 2020, a cloudy honey colour beer with a smattering of white bubbles on top, aroma is funk forward, tart, leathery, goaty, acidic, sweet, caramel, honey, pear, apple, rhubarb, lime, smells gorgeous frankly, taste is sweeter than other gueuzes i’ve tried, but totally delicious, the balance between the funky sour flavours, the acidic wooden flavours and the sweetness is perfect, rhubarb, cherry, pear, honeycomb, vanilla, oak, white wine, leathery, floral, feint hint of bitterness on the finish, beer is light to medium bodied with light carbonation, dry, puckering sourness, very drinkable, all in all a damn good beer that lives up to its reputation

 

 

 

375 ml corked bottle. Large head, disappears rapidly. Deep golden colour, cloudy when the yeast is poured. Heavenly aroma of barnyard and ensilage with white wine vinegar elements. Flavour is crisp and very dry, reminiscent of a very dry white wine or brut champagne. Not as complex as I expected. Really a beer for the "Champagne Brut" people.

 

 

 

 

L:. Pours a bubbly brilliant clear straw gold, the head lingers for a while and dissipates rather quickly and leaves no lacing.

S: The dry yeasty funk hits the nose first and is very inviting, followed by notes of peach and light citrus fruit, followed by a nice nutty bread in the end.

T:. Yeasty, funky and dry, peachy and white wine grape, with notes of pear, a dry bitterness. Everything is very harmonious and creates an amazing beer.

F:. Light body, and very easy drinking.

O:. This beer is definitely world class

 

2018 vintage, 33cl bottle with a picture of a little statue cherub holding a glass in one hand and the other hand is covering his genitals.

The pour is lightly fizzy, deep orange with a wisp of a white head.

Smells wonderfully like a cross between a clean-but-musty garden shed and heaps of jarred fruit, like something tended to with such intense care that it makes you warm to so much as think about it. Incredibly complex, like a living being, without anything off or too intense. Seriously one of the very best beer aromas I've come across in my 16+ years of reviewing beer.

The flavor is wonderful but not quite at the level of the aroma. Very dry and earthy yeast and bacteria start things off, not tart in the least but with the same kind of quenching bitterness I associate with the finish of a very sour candy. This dominates the first sip, but after my pallet adjusts I detect excellent fruit complexities near the middle, smoothed out wonderfully by woody tannins, finishing on the aforementioned deep dryness of ash and microbes.

Favorite beer

So incredibly well balanced among acidity, funk, creaminess, and bitterness.

Amazing

Amazing beer. Cantillon always knocks it out of the park. Lambics are great in general, but theirs are the best. More easy drinking than some Lambics. Love it.