Cantillon Cuvée des Champions

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

Bottled at RBESG 2005. Hazy yellow coloured with a white head. Acidic aroma with notes of fruits and lactic acid. Acidic flavour of fruits and hops.
Earlier Rating: 8/14/2005 Total Score: 3.5
Bottled. Cloudy amber coloured with a white head. Acidic aroma with notes of woods and fruits. Acidic flavour with lots of fruits and wood.

Hazy pale yellow, almost no head. Yeasty, sourish nose with some citrus. Refreshing, somewhat salty, yeasty & sour flavour with hints of green apples. Has an aged feeling in flavour.

Bottled 75cl
Deep hazy orange, not much head. Intensive aroma of leather. Sour, fruity, flavor of grapes and red currant.
Earlier Rating: 8/14/2005 Total Score: 3.7
Bottled 75cl @RBESG’05
Pale yellow, hazy, not much head. Typical sour, dry Cantillon nose. Very bitter for a lambic, double amount of hops is used here. Double IPA with lambic one would say.

Thanks Fly for this gem. It is a hazy golden/orange color. The aroma is funky, acetic, and sour. The flavor is definitely sour with some mineral notes. It got a bit better as it warmed. Another delicious product from Cantillon. Wow.

Bottle at GBBF 05 - with thanks to Duff and Mullet!! Opaque, flat orange. Nice, smooth, sour, mushy fruit. Smooth, gluey finish, with a fragrant zestiness at the end. Tastes vintage and has some class.

Bottle. Thanks be to mullet. Typical Cantillon, juicy and citric, but perhaps a little more subdued than most. Lemony with a woody sour bitter finish. Extrememly refreshing. A nice smelly hardcore lambic. I very much liked this little number.
Earlier Rating: 2/2/2005 Total Score: 4.1
Bottle, thanks joeh. Smells like its going to be bone dry and sure enough it is, very dry. Very dry aciditc sourness. Really takes all the saliva out of your tongue. Typical smelly lambic, barnyard, horse blanket etc. Lemony and dry. Bitter/sour.

Bottled - drank at GBBF 2005 courtesy of duff via Mullet. Thanks guys!. Easily my favourite Cantillon yet. It is so easy to drink yet still has all those funky barnyard cheesy characters you expect from a Cantillon. It is hazy yellow in colour and everything about it is inviting and refreshing. So easy to drink, so balaced, no nasty bum burning acidity. Just really good stuff. I clearly prefer my unblendeds to my gueuzes. Postscript - it’s now be reclassified as a gueuze - Oh well!. Score 4.4

Earlier Rating: 2/1/2005
Bottled at The London/Joet Gathering Chez Chris_O. A hazy peach coloured beer with no head. The aroma is sour and farmyard with some egginess. The taste is funky and sour with lambic burn tastes. It’s OK but a bit challenging and uninviting. Score: 3.1
Average of two ratings given.

Bottle at GBBF Cloudy gold lambic. Good oaky nose and the sourness in the mouth with the citric acidity is pretty intense. Best straight lambic I have had so far. Drinking this after all those heavy American IPAs is just so refreshing.