Spuyten Duyvil
Brasserie Cantillon

Spuyten DuyvilSpuyten Duyvil
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From:
Brasserie Cantillon
 
Belgium
Style:
Fruit Lambic
ABV:
5%
Score:
94
Avg:
4.28 | pDev: 8.18%
Reviews:
22
Ratings:
40
Status:
Retired
Rated:
May 31, 2016
Added:
Jun 11, 2005
Wants:
  121
Gots:
  4
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Ratings by Rastacouere:
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Reviewed by Rastacouere from Canada (QC)

3.79/5  rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Bottle at Spuyten Duyvil. Mostly lasting white head atop a hazy light apricot colored hue. Interesting honey and bread maltiness offers some backing to the magnificiently pungent and authentic aroma. Heavy barnyard smells, musty, cobwebby with more funk than most Cantillon. Generous fruitiness ranging from grapes and white cranberries to tropical fruits, apricot and pineapple. That explosiveness and dynamism is not continued in mouth where the level of acidity is surprisingly low. Notes of cask wood and mustard grain fine-tune the otherwise mostly fruity, tart, citric and yogurty beer with nowhere near the originality, wildness it promised to offer. Creamy, champaigny medium body. Engaging carbonation, nice texture. This is very solid, the nose stands above greatness, but it could be so much more..
Sep 12, 2005
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Reviewed by Rifugium from North Dakota

4.21/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Strange what can fall into your grasp every once in a while. Shared this bottle with a friend of a friend for my birthday, with said friend apparently acquiring the bottle back in the day from someone who knew the owner of the bar. I don't know the whole story, but this guy has a cellar of mainly wine, and--as my luck would have it--one bottle of Spuyten Duyvil, which he agreed to share with me.

Hazy burnt orange, carbonation was light, but still there, giving a small wisp of bubbles on top. Typical gueuze aroma, funky and dusty, not much fruit, but some citrus-like essence. More of the same in the taste...it's a well-aged gueuze, funk, cobweb, horseblanket, some fruity acidity, but nothing distinctly cranberry, which surely faded a while ago. Some wine-like tannins and hints of gummy oxidation, but otherwise held up fine. Good body for the style, just a little lower carb, which is understandable. Glad to have gotten to try this, as I'm sure there aren't many left in the universe.
May 31, 2016
 
Rated: 4.58 by POTABLE83 from New York

Apr 13, 2015
 
Rated: 4.5 by vissai from California

Nov 11, 2014
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Rated by JustXBeer from California

5/5  rDev +16.8%
Bottle 104 that GRG1313 shared at Cantillon Tasting at Beachwood.
Nov 10, 2014
 
Rated: 4.75 by mrbubbler from California

Nov 10, 2014
 
Rated: 4.35 by DCLAguy11 from California

Nov 08, 2014
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Reviewed by GRG1313 from California

4.75/5  rDev +11%
This beer would be a clear 5 in my book if there was just a hint more of the original cranberry. However, we opened bottle #104 of 168 today at a tasting with Jean Van Roy. What a treat all around. The cork came out with a loud "pop" and this lovely elixir was shared at a private tasting thanks to Shelton Bros and Beachwood BBQ. The Cantillon tasting part of a charitable donation and Jean and Beachwood allowed this bottle to be opened for all to share.

This 750 ml bottle poured an orange/gold with light lacing. Nose still had a fruity character with tones of stone fruit, wood, light oranges and geuze. There remained hints of fruity brettanomyces that were inviting and appealing.

Flavor profile was actually assertive and showed some citrus, wood, stone fruit and some really nice appealing funk and acid. Hints of green pepper in the finish.

I understand bottles can vary probably because of age. This was a good bottle with nice carbonation and just nice flavors all around.

The best part was sharing it with Jean Van Roy and several others. This is a bottle worth opening and drinking. It's very good and shows the staying power of Jean's beer.
Nov 08, 2014
 
Rated: 4.45 by wethorseblanket from California

Nov 08, 2014
 
Rated: 4.78 by Rado from California

Nov 08, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by brian4beer from Indiana

Jun 08, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by eggs from Illinois

Apr 28, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by CheapBeerBuzz from California

Apr 25, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by xpimptastikx from Texas

Sep 15, 2013
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Reviewed by MasterSki from Canada (ON)

4.38/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Thanks to LeDunt for sharing his pour with me. Served in a tulip.

A - White foam settles to nothing. Hazy peach-orange body. Looks like lambic.

S - Oddly enough, the aroma reminds me of Millennium Gueuze, which I had a few beer earlier in the evening. Great tart stone fruits, with hefty dose of peach and nectarine, as well as some bright citrus. Light lactic acidity, and perhaps a hint of wood. Get's a bit musky and funk as it warms. Compared to the other '05 lambics this has held up quite nicely, although there is no cranberry here at all (which isn't terribly surprising).

T - The flavor is quite sour and tart and this stage, although not excessively so. Again, the flavor is dominated by mildly sweet stone fruits, lemony lactic acidity, and perhaps a faint hint of oxidation setting in. Nice, but not super different from other aged gueuzes.

M - Medium body, lower carbonation, oaky and tannic texture, and super dry in the finish. Lingering acidity, but not excessively so.

D - Is this worth the massive price tag? Probably not. However, it's a really delicious, aged lambic that I enjoyed quite a bit. I'd love to see a second batch where the cranberries are actually mashed into the beer properly.
Aug 14, 2013
 
Rated: 4.5 by Quackus from New York

Aug 02, 2013
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Reviewed by joel66 from New York

4.51/5  rDev +5.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
This whale caused a lot of stress over the course of a yr tracking down.... Doesnt exist?? You couldnt be more wrong!

750ml bottle #31 of 168 Poured a deep golden orange with spotty lacing around the glass. A cloudlike head formed, such a beautiful looking geuze with lively carbonation

Nose was a mixture of fruit and wood with mild cheesy geuze notes

People kept telling me that this beer tasted like a classic bio geuze... They were wrong! Although their is not a cranberry presence, fruit is the predominant flavor. Incredibly well balanced sweetness of fruit with a good amount of sourness from its age. Fruit skin / tannin and oak on the finish.

Overall this beer exceeded the negative hype. It was delicious, complex and a bitch to land. Big thanks to the man who gave Moby Dick up.
Aug 01, 2013
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Reviewed by gn0sis from Massachusetts

4.57/5  rDev +6.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
750ml bottle at pre-ghost tasting in NY 7/27. Though there was no discernible cranberry presence, this pour was heavy on the fruit skins and tannins. Despite the naysayers, it most definitely had a distinct flavor profile from a geuze of its age. I was shocked to see just how much tartness and bracing acidity there was here.. really a marvelous pour from a bottle that had seemingly faded into obscurity. What a surprise.
Aug 01, 2013
 
Rated: 4.25 by BucketBoy from Pennsylvania

Jul 27, 2013
 
Rated: 4.25 by bauermj from Illinois

Jul 14, 2013
Spuyten Duyvil from Brasserie Cantillon
Beer rating: 94 out of 100 with 40 ratings