Cantillon Blåbær Lambik

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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UPDATED: AUG 3, 2008 Need re-rate this beer is perfect, a 5 indeed. 3rd Beer of the Beer Spot Tasting Sunday March 30th, 2008. Bottle via trade with Marilibusi, 2007 vintage, I brought this one. This was a fun beer to open, we popped the cap, and the cork rose on its own and flew up high, we didn’t loose a drop but it was a fun momentous opening. Pour red/pink with an off white head. Nose is sweet adn blueberry and super duper tart and really nice. Taste is full of blueberry, acidic and pucker. The taste is pure pure blueberry no fucking around like most blueberry beers. Taste is truly amazing, sweet blueberries, by far the best blueberry beer ever and probably my favorite lambic fruit I’ve ever had.

UPDATED: JUL 17, 2009 Many thanks to Yesper for hooking me up with an ’07 vintage in our trade. A wonderful sour nose with plenty going on. Barnyard funk, faint blueberries, and a grassy character. Cloudy red color with plenty of head. Faint blueberry in an intensely sour body. More of that barnyard funk is present too. A smooth finish for something so tart. Second bottle. ’07 vintage. This continues to be my perfect fruit lambic. Well rounded and amazingly tart lambic body with plenty of blueberry flavor. Tastes not only of blueberry, but also possesses a vegetal flavor like they tossed the entire plant in there. Fantastic. 2009 Vintage, batch 4. A much darker color than my last two bottles, with a bit more head than usual. The head lasted a good 25 minutes, as some moron set off the fire alarmsI Very very tart with a strong blueberry flavor.

75cl Bottle at home, Vintage 2010 (Batch 6). This is the best bottle of beer that I have ever had. I really could not find any reason to mark it down in any of the five sections. Aroma was very very funky and filled with farmyard smells. Appearance, doubt it could get any better. Taste, really fruity lambic with blueberrys lasting long into the finish. The sourness is there but its not harsh. Palate is soft and light, Carbonation is soft. Huge, massive thanks to Anker for this!!!!!!!

Colore rosa porpora come il succo di ciliegie non filtrato,schiuma rosea non spessa ma frizzante.Aroma di frutti di bosco, mirtilli maturi con sentori di ciliegia e mora. Il sapore è perfetto,ciliegie,limone che da acidità ricca di frutta. Perfettamente secco.Eccellente

375 bottle, batch 5, thanks to alfrantzell, a generous guy and great friend! Well...what is there to say about this beer that hasn’t already been said by one person or another? The cork comes out with a slight pop, certainly not the great bang I was expecting, but nevertheless the beer is very properly carbonated. The pour is a gorgeous violet hue. The minute the bottle opened, I had a powerful rush of blueberries to the nostrils. The beer has a wonderful lactic quality to it, slight barnyard funk, and a very, very minor touch of acetic acid. Certainly, this nose is absolute perfection for a lambik, tart but not painfully so. The mouthfeel is divine, not champagne-like but also nowhere near flat. I used to prefer my lambik with a lot of carbonation, but this is just right. There’s a light berry sweetness leading the rush of flavors. The lactic tartness doesn’t come in until the middle of the palate, giving the mind plenty of time to reflect on what it’s like to taste a delicious blueberry cheesecake slice. The back of the palate is hit with the funk, the sour, and somehow, the lasting taste of blueberry. In the end, I am left wondering what else a person could possibly want from this beer. It perfectly melds rich and luscious fruit flavors with a tart but balanced palate, and it drinks really smoothly. Cantillon has reached true beer nirvana, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to drink such a (relatively) fresh and fine example.

Must emphasise that I don’t know the vintage but I would like to say a massive thank you to Mes for the courtesy of forwarding me his glass and also to Magic Dave for a glass I had at his tastings’ evening. Very soft acidic levels, probably the best acidic levels in a lambic I’ve ever had. Excellent balance, Good cherry-red appearance, lacing is good, tart, blueberries fantastic sour notes,, excellent bitterness, dry finish, very sour and tart and funky but what an amazing blend! This is one of the best beers I’ve ever had. Thank you so much and special thank you for Jean for the Cantillon experience I had yesterday.

From 11/05/10 notes. Had at a small tasting thanks to ygtbsm94; huge thanks to Brad for sharing this very sought after beer! Bottle is from Batch 3, 2007 Vintage. a - Pours a reddish amber color with two inches of fluffy white head that has excellent rentention and leaves a little bit of lacing and light carbonation evident. s - Smells of tart blueberry, sour fruits, brett, and oak. The blueberries aren’t overpowering, which makes it wonderful to smell and enjoy. t - Tastes of blueberry, sour fruit, yeast, and brett. Hints of oak as well, but not as much as the smell. The tart blueberries come through a little more in the taste than the smell, but again, pretty amazing. m - Medium body and low carbonation, very smooth and crazy drinkable. A little bit tart but not too lip puckering, which allows it be be drank easily. Perfect mouthfeel. d - Wow, what an amazing beer. At 5% ABV, I feel like I could drink a whole bottle of this and still want more. I’m not just marking this up due to rarity; this is one of the best beers I’ve ever had and if you like blueberries as I do, you’ll love this one. We tried various sours at the tasting, including LeBleu and Crianza Helena and I enjoyed this one more than both of them; I came home the next day and immediately tried to trade for a bottle. Would love to have again sometime and truely worth the hype.

UPDATED: AUG 30, 2009 A rarity shared by the always generous Brewfiend. How the heck did you get this Brad? It pours a dark red color. Aroma of light fruit, yeast, and barnyard with some mold. Flavor combines all of those qualities with an incredible sour flavor. Very smooth. Some carbonation. Truly a work of art and I feel lucky to try it.

Batch 004, thanks Brad. Poured into a tulip glass. Beer is ruby red, hazy, completely beautiful. Forms a pink head (pretty big) of medium bubbles. Beer is superbly pungent. Tons of sour coming through, acetic and lactic with some funky woodsiness that pulls the whole thing together. I could smell this all day long. Beer is thin and light in body. Carbonation in the mouth props the body up a bit. Very sour and tart, good fruit character. I could session this all day long. Know where I can get a keg of this stuff? If I had to criticize it I would say it finishes too quickly due to the low body. I know lambics are suppose to attenuate out at a gravity near that of water, this one seemed thinner than others. If it had a little more to it, slightly more body, I feel the fruit would have popped more. Enough complaining though. This was the best lambic I’ve ever had and would drink it again, buy it again, trade for it again, fly to Europe to buy a bottle. Serving type: bottle

Rating #1000. Been waiting a long time for this one- thanks Bo. Dark purple ruby pour with a one finger pink head. The aroma is simply otherworldly. Massive funk, horse taint, hay, farm, currant, and blueberry. My dear lord. Huge sour notes- lactic and acetic acids with one of the best funk profiles I’ve ever encountered. Blueberry and currant round out the fruit profile in the most wondrous way. Aftertaste of tannic blueberry skins. The palate is massively attenuated, dry, and creamy in its effervescence. The best beer I’ve ever had.