Cantillon FouFoune

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Holy apricots! This one is the bees knees. Super apricot and nicely tart with the right amount of funk. Top notch and the best fruit lambic ever.

Bottle @ Too many Geuze’s - only one toilet , Ulfborg 2012 - Day 1. Vintages 2005 and 2011 side by side. The 2011 is much hazier, the 2005 more clear. Dark golden. 2005 was more carbonated. The 2005 is much more tart and sour, almost like a geuze and not a fruit lambic but you do get some distant apricot, mostly in the aroma and very faint as a flavor. The 2011 was a fruit orgasm, fresh apricot aroma and flavor which was absolutely fantastic. I preferred the 2011 but I am currently being introduced to the sour world :D However the 2005 was quite lovely too, On the label though it says that it is recommended to try it within a year of production, so the fruity experience is what the creator had in mind. So therefore i will score based on teh younger sample. (The 2005 version was 8-3-7-3-17 = 3.8 for my taste).

Bottle at Blue Monk, Buffalo. Mimosa like colored pour. Funky aroma. notes of ripe pungent blue cheese. Light BC in flavor, apricot, buttery, citrusy acidity. Great stuff

Draft @Local Option. Poured pale hazy yellow with huge head and a great cap. Aroma is sour funky gueuze with apricots, very floral if one-dimensional. Taste is damn near perfect; could drink it all day if Cantillon was ever regularly available.... Body is light and effervescent with a bone-dry complex funkadelic finish. Overall, this is freaking delicious!

Good thing this is bubbly or the Alberta Carbonation Police would be knocking at my door. Poured out a hazy light... well I guess I actually have to call it apricot in colour with a large sizzling white cap. Interesting mellow aroma: minerally, warm apricots.. the apricots change with density and sweetness as you inhale the goodness and jam your nose deeper into the glass. The sweet side comes out the strongest just before you fill your lungs all the way. Mellow apple and a sweet bread side with the sour notes not making too much of an impact. After a lengthy sit I almost got tricked into thinking there was mushed berries in here. Trippin’ to Herbie Hancock - Inventions & Dimensions. The taste is very, well, tasty. Bready finish with permanent sour lingerings. Sour tartness that does not kill yet leaves some dryness and a need for perpetual mouthfuls. The sweetness of the apricots seemingly keep everything in check, light light funk, sourness without the attitude, crab apples with some attitude. This smells way more like physical fruit once I dumped in the sludge. This be good yum. I dig. good carbs, good everything. Through my Olivia kaleidoscope it looks even better than before... maybe this how peeps give it a 5 on appearance.

Bottles @ FoneFan: 2005: HAzy dark yellow with tiny white off-white head. Aroma is malt, tart, barnyard, little apricot and fruit. Flavour is malt, little sweet, fruit, barnyard, tart and a little acetone. 9/3/8/4/17 2011: Hazy dark yellow with small off-white head. Aroma is apricot, fruit and berries. Flavour is malt, wheat, fruit, apricot, tart, little citrus, little sweet and a little dry. 9/3/4/8/16

Pours cloudy orange with a white head. The aroma is very tart with apricots showing through well. There is sharp citric acid, wild yeastiness, crispness yet smooth. Medium / light body that’s very crisp and has flowing prickly carbonation. The flavor starts with dried apricots, citric acid, lemoniness, spice and funky grains. The finish is sour and tart with less apricot and lots of lingering citrus and funky bugs. A great lambic.

Bottle shared at a recent BA/RB tasting... Poured a pale, orange/yellowish with a white head. Nose had Cantillon funk and brett, horse blanket. Fruity, eatery, wild yeast spices, ginger, lemon, tart acidic apricot flavors. Crisp, very quenching.