Cantillon Iris

Vintage 2005 Bottle. Pours a hazy orange golden body with a white lacing. Floral funky earthiness, some sour notes and a hint of flowers, wood, and burlap sacks. Dry citrus and a tart finish. I thought it was delicious. 4.1 Vintage 1998 shared by BrianK. Pours a hazy orange amber with an off white head. Floral, funky effervescent citrus and woodiness with a light acidity and some funk’d honey and lemon. Awesome. 4.4

750ml 2005 vintage drank in late March of 2009. Wowsers. The aroma on this one is perfect, stanky brett-wheat funk dreaminess. Deep orange color, not all the way opaque though. Foamy head. Classic lemony wheat crushes your taste buds. Wow, no wheat in this one? Achieves supreme sour and funkiness nonetheless. This beer is phenomenal, no trace of old age, holds up perfectly. Hyper bitter, full on Lambic.

Sampled this on tap at Max’s Taphouse in Baltimore during Max’s Belgian fest. Pours a amber gold with very little head. Funky, sweet, slightly tart nose with some light flowers. Flavor is the same, slightly musty, light sweetness, more funky and flowers. Slightly chalky. Very nice.

Crushed with Jakebra. Musty, sour but incredibly sweet nose, too. Interesting balance in the nose. Flavor is pretty nice, but a little too subtle. Sweet and sour flavor, but my saliva glands aren’t gushing and that’s a problem. My first unblended lambic, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Pretty high considering Cantillon brewed it, but it was pretty aight for me.

Bouteille verte de 750 ml, au Pub Brouhaha. Arômes caractéristiques d’un lambic où on note une légère pointe d’acide acétique. Robe cuivrée, fine dentelle qui disparaît rapidement et effervescence à petites bulles. Bien acide on bouche, des touches de chêne et de cidre sont présentes. De façon originale pour le style, on remarque également le houblon floral. Peut-être un peu moins complexe que certaines gueuzes, mais tout de même très bon.

From Cantillon, Brussels, Belgium. Bottle. Amber-golden with no head. Aroma of fruit and sourness. Flavor is dry with fruit and a hint of malt

2005 vintage bottled in 2007. Pours a cloudy orange with medium sized, thick head. Aroma of Lemon, citrus, leather, dust and funk. Flavor is very tart and sour, with a lingering dryness. Green apples, some oak, some funk, some citrus. Light banana, mild grass an lemon. Some detectable light hops in the back of the throat. Well carbonated mouthfeel. Stunning gueze.

2004 Vintage. Bottled in 2006. Pours a dark slightly hazy orange-yellow with a lasting slim white cover. Lemony, nice tart funk, white grapes. Taste is mild subdued fruitiness, oak, white grapes, a dry grassiness, and acidic finish.