Tourbillon
Brasserie Cantillon

Pours almost entirely flat, yielding a pale amber color.

Offers truly startling peat aromas on the nose, together with lighter linseed oil and dried hay among a subtle, well integrated funk backbone.

Its mouthfeel is flat with a light and refreshing body, which is quite refreshing throughout.

Tastes of oaken, earthy and oily peat among a smooth leather belt foundation, together with dried leaves and cream cheese. During mid palate the beer’s profound initial peat showing turns a little more subtle, allowing matured grains and clayous yeast to cut through. Finishes with lots of remaining camp fire smoke, as well as lamp oil, but in a gently balanced fashion with a subtle, matured fruitiness adding a pleasant bright note among soft hay and toasted oak.

Quite unusual for a Lambic, this certainly inherits quite powerful Scotch aromas, which are mirrored to a certain extent in the flavour. This blend of two very different liquids leads to surprisingly well working result, with lots of different directions mingle together under the rule of oak.

 

 

Poured from a bottle at Quintessence. Pours a transparent orange. The nose is whiskey, lemon tart, biscuit, and orange cream.

The taste is whiskey, bread, funk, lemon, leather, oak, and a bit of a tart note. Fairly dry. Great - one of my favorites from the day.