Cantillon Groseille

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Sampled from bottle (pictured here on Ratebeer) at the brewery - thanks a lot to Jean Van Roy for pulling this rarity out!!!
Pours clear copper colored with a thin pinkish head. Tart aroma with hints of berries and a dry edge, rather mild but very fresh and inviting. Obvious redcurrant flavor, extremely sour (of course, this is Cantillon with sour berries...!!) and dry. Not very full bodied but very sharp with a touch of vinegar. Fresh, special, lovely!

1 of 250 bottles, 2003, has held up well... the aroma is bursting with currants, you can smell them immediately, naturally sour they turn the beer super sour, by far the sourest cantillon I’ve head, fruit is lost on the taste but its awesome and worth trying

Bottle at Per’s, Just WOW! And enormous thanks. Golden body. Dry funky nose, slightly fishy but not in a bad way, green fruit, yeah, Cantilon. Balanced fresh sour taste, again, green fruit, Very nice and balanced. Not too salty, not too excessively acidity. Very likable.

Golden body with some yeast floaters. Small white head. Aroma of old attic, some mold and sour aroma. Very harsh. Really sour and a way too much for me. Too sour to notice those little flavour in lambic.

Bottle 375ml.

Clear medium orange color with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy redcurrant, barnyard, tart, sour, berry. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and acidic with a long duration, hønserøv - chicken butt dry and seriously sour, redcurrant, tart, sour, dry dry. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20100630]

Bottled in 2002. Made for One Pint Pub in Helsinki, Finland.

This one’s made with redcurrants. The 375ml bottle pours copper with orange chunks. My nostrils pucker at the smell. Unbelievably tart red berries. Warily, I take a sip.

Sharp, tart, unripe berries, followed by sharp, sour lambic. My face implodes. After a few minutes of precarious sipping, the taste opens up and notes of cranberries and crabapples come through, along with some twigs and pebbles.

This is full bodied, even silky. It came close to being too tart and sour, but once it sits open for a while it becomes drinkable. An interesting lambic.

Bottle at One Pint, 2002-vintage. Cloudy orange coloured with a medium sized white ehad. Fruity and light acidic aroma of berries and red currants. Acidic flavour of berries and red currants. Acidic and tart berryish finish.

Bottle (Vintage 2002) at One Pint, Helsinki. Clear amber - white head. High high dryness. Lovely sourness. Fantastic aroma. Sour red currant. Light sweet notes. Lovely wooden. Almost Perfect.

330 ml bottle. 2002. One Pint Pub, Helsinki, Finland.
Hazy golden colour with tiny white head and floaters. Yeast, mold, earth and lots of sourness in aroma. Dry SOUR flavour with red berries, mold and earth. Extremely sour. Not easy one.

Clear golden with a medium white head. Sour aroma with red currants, wood and barnyard. Very sour flavour with barnyard, leather, sour red currants, grapefruits and wood. Finished seriously sour.

Lambik brewed in 2002. Bottle at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Hazy, red amber with a small froth. More mellow fruit and citrus lambik aroma- the fruit is better able to compete with the lambik. Redcurrant berry flavours blending well with the citrussy lambik, still very acidic. Probably the best redcurrant lambik in the world.