LH12
Brasserie Cantillon

Yields a slightly clouded amber to golden color with almost no head to speak of.

Aromas lead with a profound oak and cognac profile, inheriting moldy wood, fermented white wine grapes and lots of wet basement tied together by leafy, old hops.

Mouthfeel on this is gentle and refreshing with a well balanced light body and no carbonation at all, leading to finely nuanced, refreshing beer.

Tastes of matured, sandy and flowery white wine grapes with a remarkable vinous quality to it, almost featuring a meaty peak, which blends well into the profound, yet soft barrel of the beer. A complex tartness slowly unfolds among this foundation, adding dried apple chips and high quality honey with a lingering, maintaining dryness. Finishes with a spirit forward sugary sweet peak, which surprisingly enough does not cut up any of the beer‘s complexity at all, but manages to allow its initial bitterness to cut through.

A truly unusual and well aged example of a still lambic with enough character to it to put a lot of higher gravity beers to shame.

 

 

 

Clear bold amber orange appearance, little to no head, only a scant short lived surface film. Smooth cognac present beginning to end but not the cognac bomb some have described it to be, oak, melon. Medium body, no carbonation. So enjoyable, aged so well.

2010 cork. Consumed 04/2022. Oak, vanilla, cognac. Grand cru meets 50N plus age. Lots of barrel still present. Some sweetness. Fain citrus/stone fruit/melon combo. Very smooth and rounded out.

 

Moeder Lambic SAINS tasting, 2019.
Dark saturated orange, very little carb, woody aroma, cognac richness.
Flavors of oak, brown sugar, lemon, apple, grapes, herbal and supple with a fullness about it.
Quite interesting to try next to the latest 50N4E and Brabantiae.
Showing some signs of age, but very unique and special to try.

 

Pours amber with no head.
Aroma has huge cognac, oak, hay, little green apple, lemon, little funk
Taste is oak, cognac, hay, lemon, grapefruit, little funk, no carbonation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

75 cl. bottle split with 4 others at Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas. 2010 & presumably only Vintage.

Label: cheap, very simple black and white drawing graces the bottle. Reminiscent of the Zwanze labels, this is clearly a label made only in order to have a label.

Appearance: Pours a clear, very interesting looking copper liquid - in small pours, it sort of looks like whiskey, perhaps an orange shade as well. Only two or so brief bubbles - it is completely still.

Smell: Very strong holistic herbs, light bitter roots, light funk, touch cough medicine and barnyard, spices, light oak.

Taste: Equally strongly herbal - it is a bit like some less enjoyable Old Hanssens lambic samples I have had. This time around it largely works, resembles some very old pur lambic’s I have had in its herbal quality - touch spice, light cognac, funk is quite mellow on this one, touch cough syrup, barnyard, some light vanilla and oak popping up in the back when warmed, not very sour acidic, maybe a bit more herbal bitter.

Body: Lightly oily, lovely flat.

Overall: A very interesting experiment and radically different from both 50N4E and every other Cantillon I have ever had. Whilst it was exiting to have this considering that this one of those very rare Cantillon’s, this was probably the less impressive brew I have had from the so far. More interesting than good overall.

 

Bottle at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Cheers to jbeatty for this beautifull afternoon !
Pours an amber, cognac color with no head.
The nose provides strong funk notes along with a distinct honey from the Cognac barrel and some apple .
Palate is medium sour/tart with smooth, non astringent mouthfeel with no (obviously) carbonation. Barnyard, musty oak, apple and a faint wisp of the Cognac spirit are the prevalent tastes , no alcohol taste at all !