Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus | Brasserie Cantillon
Brewed by:
Brasserie Cantillon
Belgium
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Style: Belgian Fruit Lambic
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.00%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
"It has the colour of onion skin", said a voice behind me. It was Raymond Coumans. He was admiring the colour of the raspberry lambic reflecting in the red copper of the buckets used to empty the barrels. At that time (1986), "Raspberry-Lambic" already was synonymous with a sweet, artificially flavoured beer. This is why we decided to distinguish our beer from the other raspberry beers. Raymond proposed to call it a rosé, dedicated not to Bacchus but to Gambrinus.
The process to make this beer is identical to the one to make Kriek. When young, the Rosé de Gambrinus will still present its full fruity taste. Later on, the lambic taste will become dominant at the expense of the fruit taste.
Added by UncleJimbo on 02-16-2002
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Ratings: 2,439 | Reviews: 771
4.35/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
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4.46/5 rDev +3.2%
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4.5/5 rDev +4.2%
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4.75/5 rDev +10%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
2018 bottling, so the raspberry is full-bodied and robust...lots of of tart berry flavoring married well with the Cantillon yeast terroir - earthy, funky, whatever you wanna call it, the compliment of flavors between that and the raspberry is excellent.
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
2018 bottling, so the raspberry is full-bodied and robust...lots of of tart berry flavoring married well with the Cantillon yeast terroir - earthy, funky, whatever you wanna call it, the compliment of flavors between that and the raspberry is excellent.
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4.63/5 rDev +7.2%
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.25/5 rDev -1.6%
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4.19/5 rDev -3%
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Pink to ruby red in color and murky in complexion. There's a fingernail of off white on top. The aroma is of tart raspberries with brettanomyces. I'm tasting tart raspberries, but compared to many lambics this seems a bit rounded out. The mouth is bone dry and moderately carbonated.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pink to ruby red in color and murky in complexion. There's a fingernail of off white on top. The aroma is of tart raspberries with brettanomyces. I'm tasting tart raspberries, but compared to many lambics this seems a bit rounded out. The mouth is bone dry and moderately carbonated.
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4.5/5 rDev +4.2%
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4.25/5 rDev -1.6%
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4.68/5 rDev +8.3%
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4.42/5 rDev +2.3%
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4.33/5 rDev +0.2%
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4.31/5 rDev -0.2%
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Drank at Eric the Red, Moscow.
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Drank at Eric the Red, Moscow.
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4.17/5 rDev -3.5%
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4.4/5 rDev +1.9%
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4.75/5 rDev +10%
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4.75/5 rDev +10%
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4.27/5 rDev -1.2%
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4.63/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.31/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours a clear, deep ruby red coloration with a small, fizzy head. Smell is quite funky and midly fruity, with notes of blue cheese, tart raspberry and a hint of citrus. Taste follows the nose, being dominated by barnyard funk and tart raspberry, with notes of blue cheese, citrus and oak. Dry finish with a mouth-puckering sourness and some raspberry funk lingering in the aftertaste. Soft mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation. The funk certainly is strong with this one, with a strong sourness as well, and very little sweetness coming through. The balance still works out quite well, although the fruitiness could be richer. Not all that complex, but the rich funkiness really makes up for that.
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look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours a clear, deep ruby red coloration with a small, fizzy head. Smell is quite funky and midly fruity, with notes of blue cheese, tart raspberry and a hint of citrus. Taste follows the nose, being dominated by barnyard funk and tart raspberry, with notes of blue cheese, citrus and oak. Dry finish with a mouth-puckering sourness and some raspberry funk lingering in the aftertaste. Soft mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation. The funk certainly is strong with this one, with a strong sourness as well, and very little sweetness coming through. The balance still works out quite well, although the fruitiness could be richer. Not all that complex, but the rich funkiness really makes up for that.
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4.68/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus
750mL bottle into a snifter
Vintage 2017
Drank several months ago, but review was written at time of consumption.
A: Pours a cloudy ruby red, very nice color with 1plus fingers width of pink tinged head. Decent rentention time before disappearing down. Leaves a few patches of lacing. 4.5
S: Aroma is tart, lots of berry, the lovely typical Cantillon burnt plastic like funk. Aroma builds as it warms. 4.5
T: Nose is fairly balance but the taste bring the fire sour! Fantastic flavor profile. Huge tart sour notes, lots of oak, plastic-y funk, enough fruit to balance. Fruit notes are both sweet and tart raspberry. Puckeringly tart but balance beautiful by the other notes. Brilliant. 4.75
M/D: Lighter side of medium body, very high carbonation which works well, exceptionally drinkable. 4.75
O: Elite beer. 4.75
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus
750mL bottle into a snifter
Vintage 2017
Drank several months ago, but review was written at time of consumption.
A: Pours a cloudy ruby red, very nice color with 1plus fingers width of pink tinged head. Decent rentention time before disappearing down. Leaves a few patches of lacing. 4.5
S: Aroma is tart, lots of berry, the lovely typical Cantillon burnt plastic like funk. Aroma builds as it warms. 4.5
T: Nose is fairly balance but the taste bring the fire sour! Fantastic flavor profile. Huge tart sour notes, lots of oak, plastic-y funk, enough fruit to balance. Fruit notes are both sweet and tart raspberry. Puckeringly tart but balance beautiful by the other notes. Brilliant. 4.75
M/D: Lighter side of medium body, very high carbonation which works well, exceptionally drinkable. 4.75
O: Elite beer. 4.75
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4.5/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus from Brasserie Cantillon
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