Cantillon Faro

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Faro
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Sampled @ the brewery. Hazy golden in colour with a medium sized white head. Slightly acidy with notes of brett, citrus, wood and somewhat sweet and tart.

Draught at Le Zageman. Orange brown body with a small white top. The nose is pretty good - solid punchy fruit funkiness and sticky sweet apricot and peaches along with a smooth butteriness. Doesn’t seem nearly as scary as I anticipated a Faro to be though it is literally sticky from the sugar. Peach tartness to counteract but the sweetness cuts the acidity way too much for me to really enjoy this. Still quite good but I certainly don’t have a benchmark for the style. I’m off to a good start though!

Jug at the brewery: Deep Amber with no carb. Sweet caramel flavours with fresh fruit flavours. Some whitewine acidic character in the back ground, but a lot of brown sugar too. Nice, but prefer the straight lambic.

UPDATED: FEB 26, 2008 Sampled at brewery tour at Cantillion - Pours dark golden with no head. Aroma of sour grapes, cherries, and tart apples. Taste is sweeter than the rest of the Cantillion offerings, some toffee, only slightly tart, and very similar to the young lambic. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, tart, and nearly flat.

Casks at Moelder Lambic Fontainas.
Cloudy amber appearance with a froathy white head that stays on the surface till the end... Nice aroma of a real Cantillon brewed Lambic, light grapes and vinous tartness, green leaves and dried peach. Easy character of a Lambic with the added sugars. Sourish tarty taste, light barnyard balanced with a fine sweetness, green leaves. Interesting. Exciting!

Bottle: No head, clear dark orange colored beer. Smell fruits, sweets, champagne and yeast. Taste is sweet with light sour: grains, malts and sugars. Lovely light sweet sour bitter aftertaste. Low to no carbo, fuller body, watery texture and a soft light sharp mouthfeel, Great Faro!

Pours a headless orange-amber color. Aroma is burnt sugar cane sweetness. Not much there to separate this from other common faros. Taste reduces that nasty sweetness. Its still there but the base beer is felt in a slight wild/barnyard flavor breaking through the muck creating a nice drinkable sweet mild lambic. The flavor really grew on me as I kept at it and it became more drying as I kept drinking. By the end a good amount of tartness began to be felt at the end of the flavor. By this point this was the best faro I had had.
Cask @ Cantillon Brewery, poured out of a faro ceramic jug, on 5/17/08.

From a plastic growler at the brewery in March 2012. Clear reddish/brownish with no head. The aroma was sweet with toffee, brown sugar, earth and some lemon. The taste was also sweet and rather strange to begin with. (I am not that used to drink a Faro) Then it became better. Toffee, sugar, some earth, funk and light berries. No carbonation. Very easy to drink. It was an interesting beer to try. (only 2 EUR for a glass)

Faro truly is an aquired taste. A taste that I have yet to aquire. Faro is unblended lambic in which caramel and candy sugar is added during bottling time. I believe that Cantillon uses 1 1/2 year old lambic when making this one. I sampled this at Spinnekopke in Brussels, Belgium. Brown. Sugars overpowering the "lambicness" in the nose. Flat (to style). Overwhelming sweetness. I expected sweet, but not this sweet. The style, at this point, is not for me. Still though, with the rarity of this beer these days, I think I’ll try it again the next chance I get.

Fresh light fruity citrus aroma. A light brown-amber color with a nice tan head. Moderate citrus-grapefruit flavors with a dryness. A good gateway-lambic due to the sweetness. Notes: March 2010 on visit to Cantillon for Public Brewing Session