Cantillon 50ºN-4ºE

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

Thanks for sharing this bottle Alex (Sick_boy282). Pours with a yellowish gold body topped by a thin head with no lacing. It’s sour, lemony and tart with a little funk and a slight woody note. Light bodied, crisp, smooth and a touch dry.

Bottle from axilla. Drank this to my dome about a week ago when the site was down. It was tasty. I like! The cognac barrels were interesting with the gueuze, but like everything cantillon makes, it turned out great. A little bit of sweetness from the barrels, along with some nice oak, and funk. Delish.

Pours a golden yellow color with a white head. Aroma is oak, cognac, brett, sweet alcohol, sweaty, and some funk. Flavor is brett, cognac, tart acid, spice, oak, and a funky tart finish.

A huge thanks to BDR for sharing this incredibly rare, and expensive beer. Like everyone Cantillon, it is delicious and without flaw. Sour barnyard aroma. Tons of barnyard character, horse blanket, vinegar. Lots of yeast. There is some grape, but I don’t taste the cognac. Bright, cloudy yellow, and lots of thin, white foam that leaves a lacing on the glass. Finish has cloves and some apricot. This is an incredible beer. One of my highest ratings ever.

750ml Bottle: Sweet and sour aroma. Smells of sour mix, funk, and cherries. Poured orange amber in color with a small, extremely dense, creamy, off-white head that slowly disappeared. Cloudy. Sparkling. Flavor is bad; sour. Tastes of sour mix, cherries, and cognac. Acidic. Light to medium body. Thin, watery texture. Soft to average carbonation. Sour, cognac finish. Eww.

Pours turbid dull deep gold with 1-finger off-white head and a subdued Guinness cascade. Nose is sour mashy, cobwebby fruit, funky earthy malt. Tastes very tart, fruity, with notes of apricot, earthy, oaky, and woody notes, and definite cognac undertones. As a cognac lover, I appreciate greatly what they have done here and how well it has worked out. The flavor was much less mouth puckering than some prior Cantillons.

On tap at Portland International Beerfest 2008--Poured a hazy golden body with a nice fluffy white head. Typical sour, tart, sharp Cantillon nose. Not much evidence of cognac. Lemon, orangepeel, wooden, acidic, signature Cantillon character. Another hit! Worth 6 tickets!

Thanks Dave. The beer pours to a very hazy orange straw body with a bubbly thin white head. The aroma is tart vinegar and sour cognac barrels. Acidic grapes. The palate is really bitter and acidic. Unexpected bitterness. The flavor is sour leathers and bitter grassy hops with a strong acidic white grape. Oaken laden malts. Some apples. Sweet sugary back but dry up front.