Fou' Foune
Brasserie Cantillon

750 mL bottle poured into a goblet. Bottle dated August 19, 2011.

Appearance - Hazy, murky orange body with an ample, pillowy head. Continuous froth as I drink it. Couldn't look better for a lambic. It even looks the color of an apricot.

Smell - Beautiful, subtle apricot aroma. Slight acidity in the aroma. Not much funk, which is disappointing, but it's probably what allows the apricot aroma to be so perfect.

Taste - Slight apricot flavor immediately overtaken by lambic acidity. A bit of barnyard acidity and some hay and wheat flavors. The finish is slightly bitter, but it gives way to a nice apricot flavor in the finish. It's as if the apricot flavor is continuously there, but the lambic comes through and overwhelms it at certain points.

Mouthfeel - The lightest lambic I have had. Amazingly flavorful for so little body. It really allows the apricot to shine. Perfect carbonation, of course.

Overall - Cantillon really does a terrific job with fruit lambics. They're more acidic than funky, which allows the fruit to shine. In this case, the fruit flavor is perfect and manages to showcase without being a fruit bomb.

Poured with a lovely light orange / little bit of head. Great funk on the nose - very fruit forward. Aromas of mild citrus, apricot and some pineapple. Slight peach flavors too, but not overpowering. Lots of fruit on the tongue finishing with a dry mid palate finish. Really enjoyed this beer, and will be looking to acquire again and age a little longer. 2024 bottle. Definitely lived up to the hype. I think it drank great for how young it was. Not a beer like St. Lam that just gets better with age.

Appearance - The beer was an orange yellow color with visible carbonation and bubbles rising to the top of the glass.

Smell - The sourness was evident in the nose, but the fruit profile was also apparent.

Taste - I felt like I was drinking fresh peaches, but the bottle said apricots. I’m not sure about the distinctions between either. That said, there were a lot of apricots in the flavor profile. It was not overly sour and had a nice dry finish.

Mouthfeel - The body was smooth and bubbly, sweeping away the sweet and leaving the dry.

Overall - I approve of this beer.

Ok, so I posted this in NBW as I was sharing it with friends. I totally screwed up the details (apricot, not peach), but said screw up was educational in a way. I will use this review to account for the mixup.

Poured with kind of a peach color, maybe a tad bruised. (I stand by this, despite the snafu) An orange-heavy amber, let’s go with. A little bit of head, but a solid collar of white - which isn’t bad for spurs in general, per my experience.

(not so bad)

I get a typical wild-aged funk in the nose, but also quite fruity, including some less-ripe pineapple (a component one of our friends noted). I get both peach (power of my own suggestion) and pineapple, with the sour notes being a rich fruit vinegar and some lime.

On the palate, there is a gentle but obvious carbonation. The sour bite brings as much feel initially. The ending is a bit more raw and dirty dry.

All of us agree that the peach isn’t dead obvious in this beer (obviously because it is apricot, no?).

I think the sour mix of lemon, lime, and white grapefruit interfere a bit. The peach hits middle-taste...
here is where I think if you combined the white grapefruit with the peach I was searching for, it was the apricot coming out.
...along with the funkiness that I think leads to that bit of dirty dryness mentioned in the feel. I think there are vague recollections to Orval in that specific note.

And that I think tries to adjust the post made the same day as this review in the forums.

Sour apricots, lime, green apples notes. Fruity, with sour finish. Dry.

First sips are medium tart. 2nd glass turns to high tart, and less fruity. No brett. Surprisingly refreshing, and velvety smooth. Well-balanced. No complexity though.

Bottled 080625

 

 

Pours an opaque light orange, light foamy soapy minimal lace. Nose is lactic, stone fruit, tiny amount of herbal, grassy hop; light marmalade. Solid but not bracing sour, enough sweetness to dial it back, but then the sour comes in once more; like an apricot that is just short of ripe but with enough sweetness to poke through now and again; grain as it warms on the finish. Moderate, soft, light carbonation. Highly enjoyable and pretty close to perfect.

(750 ml bottle, dated Aug 2025, shared by my brother and I at Monk's 25 Oct 2025... poured into Gibraltar glasses)

Hands down the most fascinating fruited lambic I've had the pleasure of tasting. Quite unlike any other... poured with a generous swell of curiously dense, rocky, but airy foam that maintained and laced like a fresh dusting of powdery snow... delicate-bodied, but fuzzy, fluffy-foamy on the palate, with a slight nectary slush on the finish... As for the apricot flavor, it was bold, but kind of ghostly, frayed on the edges, marginally obscured by a cloak of rustic, wheated grain wash.. sip after sip though, the apricot never abated, replenishing and re-establishing its initial expressive impact... it's hardly fruit laden and ne'er sweetish, the balance and interplay of the wheat vs apricot driven by understated funk and frothy textures pushing against each other outward, creating some dynamic dimension and perspective I've experienced in few brews... my brother and I each felt helplessly forced to savor and contemplate each sip, no kidding... very privileged to have scored this bottle with its numbers being limited at the event... I waited a long time to finally try this but it left me too eager to seek out more asap. I can't imagine a draft pour (if one were to be had) would come remotely close to replicating all the nuances from that bottle. Simply stunning, and I wasn't prepared for that. (2462)

Hazy pale orange with a nice white head. Apricot and strawberry in the nose. Sour and tart. Super fruity. Medium bodied with strong, soft carbonation. Absolutely delicious.