Lou Pepe Framboise

I believe there are approximately the same # of LPG and LPF, but that LPK is maybe roughly double what each of those are?

I believe the sticker date is 3 years before year or release roughly. For example, I believe the batch released in 2014 was sticker date 2011.

Price is going to vary widely everywhere. At the brewery it's under 10 euros for a 750.

I believe they release this every year. Also, bottle counts on all Cantillon fruited beers are dependent on fruit harvests.

 

I'm always suprised at how many people don't really know much about the LP series. Take a minute and read the Cantillon website and about their beers. Really interesting. Cheers!

http://www.cantillon.be/br/3_109

he traditional Lambic is a beer whose spontaneous fermentation cannot be controlled entirely by the brewer. Due to the influence of many factors, the taste and the aromas of our product are different every time we brew.

In a lambic brewery, every bottling (about 50 each season at the Cantillon brewery) results in a beer with its own more or less complex taste. These differences are one of the characteristics of the Gueuze, Kriek or Framboise. The lambic beers are blended in order to neutralize these differences and to be able to offer our customers a beer with a harmonious taste the whole season through.

The Lou Pepe beers deviate from these principles. The Gueuze Lou Pepe is made with two years old lambic beers with a mellow taste, often coming from barrels in which only wine has been kept before. In July, the same kind of beer is used to make the Lou Pepe Kriek and Framboise. With these beers too, the fruits are soaked in barrels coming directly from Bordeaux.

The second fermentation of these particular beers is not caused by the addition of young lambic but of a sweet liquor. The yeast will transform the sugar in carbon dioxide. All the lambic beers which are used, are brewed in the same season and the use of liquor instead of young lambic makes the taste of the fruit more intense. The Kriek and the Rosé de Gambrinus contain 200 g of fruits per liter on an average, while the Lou Pepe beers contain about 300 g. This fruity taste, combined with the wine flavour coming from the Bordeaux barrels, distinguishes these special beers from the other Cantillon products.

The particular name of these beers comes from the south-west of France, a region the Cantillon family is very fond of. In this beautiful region, the grandfather is called Lou Pepe. To his grandchildren Florian, Simon, Louis and Sylvain, the master-brewer is the Lou Pepe of the North.

 

The bottle I had that was supposedly from this year was a 2011 sticker. Also, if you look on untappd they only list up to 2011, implying that a 2012 sticker hasn't been released yet.

Cheers.

 

I hear ya - I agreed pretty much with the 2nd post. The answers are: 1) It varies; 2) it varies; and 3) it varies! But seriously, In the U.S. you'll see everything from $20-60 for price these days. Others may have seen crazier, but that's what I've seen. 3 years from the current year cork/sticker. Cantillon makes <5,000 barrels total I want to say (curious on exact # if someone knows). So outside of Europe its hard to find these days. Hope you find some. It's really tasty.

 

^ What he said.

If you are interested and know anybody stopping by Southern Germany or are doing so yourself I would be up for a trade since I live about 60 minutes from Belgium and am likely to make a few trips a year to Belgium to get some goodies in larger quantities.

 

All you need to know is that you need to buy every bottle that you see.

 

Anyone know when the first batch of LPF was made? I looked on the Cantillon spreadsheet and LPF goes back to 2003.

Our tasting group has a 2001 LPF on deck. Earliest I have found was 1998 sticker date. ust trying to find out more about it.

Thanks in advance.