UPDATED: NOV 20, 2023 [Cantillon, Bruxelles] [Vintage - 2014] Aroma: Caramelized notes, malty, stone fruits, slightly funky, oak, jammy, marzipan, dusty and sour cherries Appearance: Amber brown with small slowly disappearing white head Taste: Mildly sweet and moderately acidic, mild stone fruits, green apples, malty, dusty, oak, and sour cherries Mouthfeel: Watery texture with mild carbonation Overall: Huge thanks for opening this Jean! 🍾😎 Really nice! (this is actually the 2014 Zwanze)

UPDATED: DEC 6, 2022 Flowers, iris, sour aroma. Brown, haze with white head. Flowery, berries, sourness. Very dry finish. Light body, high carbonation.

Draught @ Cantillon Brewery/Museum, 56 rue Gheude, Brussels, Belgium 1070.

[ As Cantillon Zwanze (2014) ].
Unclear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is horse blanket, barnyard, leather, barrel, cherry, wood, oak, maybe some herbs ! Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, cherry, oxidide, wood, sweet berry, funky, wood - oak, maybe some tea ! Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180317]
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Tap. Low fruit, prunes, Iris base hops. Body is medium, quite sour and acidic, little vinegar, pinching. Soft cherry. Barely noticeable. Good, but not great.

Rami Rami is drinking a Zwanze 2014 - Cuvée Florian by Brasserie Cantillon at Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage Taki bardzo straighforward, malo zlozony, ale tez bardzo smaczny. Tylko ze troche za kwasny for mi. Cytrynoagrest

One Zwanze edition from Cantillon I missed, but fortunately got a chance to revisit in vintage form from tap at Nanobrasserie de l’Ermitage during their Quintessence party; after the Zwanze event of 2014, this was also sold as Cuvée Florian apparently. Basically Iris Grand Cru (the non-dry-hopped, ‘crude’ version of the classic Iris) with sour cherries, this beer showed a creamy, egg-white, fairly stable, lacing head and misty, deep amberish-tinged ruddy bronze colour – a bit faded already by age, I suppose? Aroma of old tart cherry wine and cherry vinegar, lemon rind, redcurrant, sourdough, damp cellar, earth, unripe nectarine, old white wine. Fruity, estery onset, sour and acidic with sour kriek indeed but not as abundantly as many others, leaving more room for the unripe plum- and sour berry-like properties of the lambic itself (even if technically not even a true lambic due to the lack of wheat); fizzy carb, very dry and tart middle with a bread crust-like basis like Iris, a tad nutty even, unveiling its pure barley nature. Dry, tannic ending, lots of wet wood, cherry stones tannins as well I assume, funky barnyard aspects, hay, old dry sherry, lingering lambic fruitiness. Rounded, well-bodied and interesting lambic, its basic Iris nature recognisable enough, but I am left wondering how four years of age have affected its cherry compartment – would love to taste this from a bottle of the same age.

Sampled at Quintessence 2018. Hazy amber pour with a thick beige head. Notes of vinegar, bitter herbs (black tea?), vinegar, unrpie passion fruit, grapefruit, citrus. Hoppy, bitter, tart and funky.

Draft. Clear reddish amber color white head. Cherry aroma with light tannins. Taste is fruity, tannic, tart, tasty.

Tap at l’Ermitage. Hazy copper with offwhite head. Sweet and sour grain, nuttiness, ashtray, lambic Jaune, apricot, sour white grapes. Light sweet. Moderate sour and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.

Tap at L'ermitage Nano brasserie. Aroma of citrus, barnyard sugar, grass, herbal, mild Cherry, wood. Light Sweet an moderate Tart Sour with lingering fruity sourness. Light and juicy. A good one...