Fou' Foune
Brasserie Cantillon

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really nice yellow color that's bright and inviting. Aroma has plenty of apricot but in a discrete, balanced way. Taste is wonderful. Nice acidity with delicious apricot notes. Light and lively. Overall, excellent beer.