Cantillon 50ºN-4ºE

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

3-21-08 bottle shared at tasting
Cloudy yellow orange with no head. Sour funky smell. Flavor is tart and sour and seemingly not very balanced. Low carbonation and thin and waty. Seems a bit underdeveloped.

Big thanks to MaxxDaddy. Poured a hazy gold color with a small white head. The aroma was yeasty, funky and tart. Just a hint of liquor that I take to be cognac. The flavor is tart and mildly acidic. Flavors of leather and yeasty funk. Dry Bretty bitterness on the finish. Light body.

Bottle many thanks to Joeinuncle for this beer, cheers! Pours a light amber colour but when I moved it could also have been sunflower yellow albeit with some haziness. Initially this reminded me a lot of the Boon Mariage Parfait as it was a little softer and less acidic than many of it’s Cantillon stablemates. There was a lovely soft lemony quality to this and the brandy certainly makes it’s mark though not overly so. I loved this beer it finishes with a magnificent sweet and sour citrus flush with some notable oakiness hanging on the peripheries, great beer.

Bottle. 75cl. [Tasting @ Ølbaren, Copenhagen]. Unclear orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is sour - acidic, apricot - peach, wood. Flavor is light to moderate sweet, moderate acidic, bitter and sour with a average to long duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (110308)

Courtesy of the super awesome kramer17801. Clear pale body with a small white head, fading. Sour, cheesy nose with yogurt, melon and lemon. The flavor is very sour with lemon, citrus rind, cheese, grapefruit, light cotton candy and melon. Medium body is soft with moderate carbonation. Finish is long with a lasting sour and a pithy bitterness.

Bottle shared by MaxxDaddy. Awesome! Hazy orange pour. Muggy, sweaty, horseblanket aroma, perhaps a touch of cognac, corn, brandy. Flavor is clammy, big sour, tart, acidic, low pH and a bit of brandy. A very tasty beer, the brandy puts this a bit off from the rest, but the acidity and complexity is quite nice.

750mL bottle, courtesy of kramer17801. Thanks, Jason! Pours a bright, honey-orange color; headless with a solid level of viscosity. Lots of funky, tart citrus, lightly toasted oak, and loads of funk and cobwebs in the aroma, with a slight touch of alcohol and booziness. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: average carbonation; solid levels of warming alcohol, tart funky citrus, and red fruits (cherries, strawberries); mostly yellow fruits, cobwebs, and dry dusty funkiness; the cognac-barrel presence is quite soft, showing through as chewy alcohol and a touch of wood and booze; intensely funky and tasty tart citrus and warming alcohol. Lengthy finish, with tart citrus and funk and lightly toasty oak.

Thanks to Jason for this one. Clear yellow body. Aroma is sweet with honey along with a sour bretty funk. Tart flavor of sour apples and other fruit. Dry medium body appears smooth for the acidity.