Cantillon 50ºN-4ºE

From bottle, 75 cl. (bought @ festival Vilvordia) Hazy deep golden orange color, with little head. Aroma bit woods (oak), sourness. Medium body. Taste is great. Perfect balance between the sour, woody and fruity lambic. Complex and delicious. Very good.

Bottle (brewed on 5 March 2005, bottled on 30 March 2007). Hazy deep orangey golden with a small fine-bubbled and stable head. Wonderful lemony aroma with hints of wood and cognac. Complex on the tongue- dry woody and lemony flavours start the show, vanilla oakiness provides a subtle, milder finish. Cognac is present, but only discreetly so. Medium body. Cantillon never fails to impress, but this beer is among their least extreme. Not less impressive, though.

750. Thanks, Hogfodder! What a dandy little beer this is, truly. Pours a still and rather subdued looking medium amber. No head, no lace. Big cherry, vinegar, and red wine grape nose. Medium body, not much life to it. No carb, no malty depth. Light vinegary sour, plus cherries, washing into a big mineraly finish. Nice stuff. The cognac is most detectable in the nose.

750 ml bottle at SD. Murky orange in color with a little white head. Cognac and sour funky aroma. Sour flavor with some acidic notes. Smooth tasting. Very nicely balanced. Finish is sweet. Very nice beer. Very drinkable.

750ml bottle thanks to jeppe for sending this one over the pond....pours a semi-transparent orangey-brown with a thin white soapy head that diminishes after a few minutes.....aroma was nice. a not too overbearing sour funkiness with some citric acid tart. there might be subtle cognac notes but i can’t truly pinpoint them....flavor was really smooth with the typical cantillon character. the cognac smoothens things out nicely with even a mild sweetness in the finish, allowing it to just peak through. a very nice balance all around. mouthfeel was still pretty sprite and it goes down well.

Bottle: Poured a murky orange with a white thin head. The aroma was funky with a slight cognac smell. The taste was sour but not overwhelming with a thangness and cognac.

Bottle, vintage 2005, 3 years old at Yeast fest 08. Pours a cloudy light yellow orange body. Aroma is cognac and sour funkiness. Flavor is very buttery, i really like it. A light easy to drink cognac comes into play with a sour ending and some acidity present. I’ll definately open this again.

750ml bottle; Cork dated 2007. This poured hazy yellowish gold in color with a quickly diminishing white fizzy head. The aroma is typical of most Cantillons. Sour, barnyard, funk. This one had some citric in the aroma as well. The taste was a little more subdued compared to other Cantillons which punch you in the jaw. There were solid notes, of lemon citrus. I picked up a bit more oak which made this Cantillon drier in the finish. This was very nice.