Cantillon 50ºN-4ºE

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

Great oak character to the aroma; super complex; lemons, vanilla hay. The flavor is not super sour, just tart, with a grainy midpalate. The oak flavors seem a bit rough around the edges, with a bitter aftertaste, otherwise this would have been tremendous.

Pours a hazy gold color with a thin foamy white head. Aroma is musty funk, sour, tart, and some yeastiness . Taste is nice and sour and funky up front but finishes rather wet, flat, and slightly bitter. A nice geuze but I was expecting a bit better for $25.

Thanks to my bro for sharing this pricy lambic! Pours a hazy straw color with thin of white head. Aroma is of Cantillion yeast funk, some horse blanket and light fruit. Taste is sour and tart fruit, yeast, and popsicle stick. Seriously, the Cognac does a disservice to this beer. I don’t like it at all when it’s slightly chilled. However, as it warms up the popsicle flavor dissipates and everything falls into place. It is easier drinking and tastier then the classic gueuze.

Bottle thanks to the great ygtbsm94, Cheers man! Aroma has notes of citrus, tropical fruits, yeast, barnyard, and cognac. Golden orange body with a small off-white mostly diminishing head that left no lace. Flavor is sweet then sour and bitter. Medium light body and watery flat. Very interesting brew. I could really pick out the cognac after a little bit. Not bad.

Bottle. Golden- orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is barnyard and yeast. Flavour is yeast, earth, citrus, sourness. Mild nice beer.

The beer poured a clear golden body with a slight white ring on the edge but no head to speak of. The nose was trademark Cantillon, funky and tart. Very nice. The taste in the beginning was tart, slightly medicinal along with a hot alcohol, cognac note. As the beer warmed, the citrus and cognac notes intensified and were really pleasing on the tongue. Overall this is a really solid and drinkable beer and another fine example of what Cantillon does.

Bottle, 75cl. A hazy, a bit pale orange-golden beer with a small, off-white head. The aroma has the most obvious and expected scents like barnyard, horseblanket and yeast, and of course citrusy acidity, but it’s not amongst the most complex gueuzes. Really pleasant though, just like the flavor, which is almost sweetish, but of course more on the acidic side. Low on carbonation, astringent, with barnyard and citrusy sourness. Mostly lemonish sourness. Some green apples too. The supposed imprint from the cognac barrels isn’t something I detect. Surprisingly easy to drink. (081220)

750ml bottle, thanks Brad! Cork slides off without any sound, which was odd. Pours a very slightly hazy honey orange with a fine soapy head. Awesome lacing. Aroma is really heavy on lemons, green apples, and hay, with a bit of metal or blood that isn’t really appealing. Really nice in the mouth - soft and puckering, the tart lemons and green apples shine, the finish is round and short. Strange. I don’t taste any cognac, but that round finish could be the effect of the cognac barrel. Not quite as harsh and bone-dry as some Cantillon. Really sour, but graceful and very tasty. Such a falvorful and well integrated sour component on this one.