Cantillon 50ºN-4ºE

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.

PIB 2008. This was what I hoped it would be, another well built cantillon beer without to much of the cognac taking over. I like the subtleness of the barrel. The beer pours orange with an off-white head. Dry tart and acidic, with a soft citrus and apple character, earthy finish, and soft oakiness to pull it all together.

750 ml cork and caged bottle shared with jimmack and joeec, thanks Jim. Poured your standard lambic-gueuze style, golden pour mostly flat and lifeless and wirh some vigorous pouring I was able to aliven a small whiteish head. Great aroma of green apples, funkiness, very faint smoke and some apple cider vinegar as well. I didn’t care for the body of this one as I found it very thin and flat with only a slight touch of carbonation. I’m sure that was the brewers intention for this style but still not my thing. Taste is sour and funky and I am able to detect a slight touch of cognac on the aftertaste but it is very faint but there. Interesting idea but the cognac aging only seemed to thin the body out and added no aroma and only the faintest flavor. For the money stick to St. Lamvinus.

Bottle thanks to Emanuele at Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà. Pours hazy golden orange with a medium white head, Aroma of tart apples and sweet malts. taste is veryy sour with strong wood and cognac notes. An excellent sour.