Cantillon Cuvée des Champions

Sampled at the RBSG 07 Grand Tasting. Perhaps my favorite brew of the evening. hazy orange yellow color With earthy yeast on the sour nose. Faintly sweet body with earthy sour finish.

Radiant gold, bit puffy white head. Nose is slightly hoppy lemon candy, earthy woody yeast. Flavor is very bitter lemon goodness, some hay, lemonhead w. most sugar removed. Hay & lemon finish.

Bottled. Hazy orange colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is enormously sour with some wooden and fruity hints. Flavour is very sour with slight hints of fruits. Very dry palate. Very wellbalanced, and pleasant gueuze.

Perhaps the finiest gueuze iv ever tried? Spontanious weekend 07. Notes say: Less sour than standard canti gueuze, more balanced than a regular gueuze, hints of apple and lemon, perhaps not the most complex of gueuze, but just stupendous, i was gulping this down like there was no tomorrow, outstanding just an amazing alround brilliance in a glass.

On handpump at Bruxellensis beer festival, 9/10/06. How I ended up here, I can’t even describe., let’s just say Jan at Cantillon goes above and beyond. So anyway... poured in my brandy new Bruxellensis tasting glass by someone who speaks English (yay says my ignorant, non French speaking self) and tells me this is a dry hopped Gueuze. I shudder with delight! Big huge earthy hoppy aroma that disintegrates into typical Cantillon funkiness. First taste brings upon an onslaught of green leafy bitterness that holds off the barnyard for a few seconds only to succumb to the sour side. So complex, so delightful. Sitting in the sun at a beer festival somewhere just south of Brussels, drinking this nectar and about to embark on a 6 day beer tour. I wanna go back.

Bottled in 2006. Cloudy orange with fine-bubbled white head that reduced to almost a film. Cheesy aroma, lots of wood, sharply acidic. Flavours are more acidic than ever, quite lemony, mingling mellowing cheese and dry woody flavours. A great geuze that is one of the more extreme of the bunch in terms of acidity.

Draught at Akkurat. Weird, I thought this was retired.. and to find it on draught at Akkurat. Might be a new batch? Anyhow, being dry-hopped, this will of-course remind you of Iris.. and it does. And that’s a good thing.

03-04 vintage bottle sampled on 3/14/07: Pours a transparent bright copper bronze with a thin, wispy white head. Dry, funky, horseblanket, earthy, cheesy, musty aroma has some tart notes. Body starts with a nice, full viscous tart sour earthy funky flavor with an acidic, warming complex cheesy finish. A good gueuze.