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Cantillon Iris

Cantillon Iris - Lambic - Unblended

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 Percentile 
96
overall
Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Unblended

Brussels, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5923.76/5.03.75/5.05%93.8Flute, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
The Cantillon brewery is closely linked to Brussels, a city which has the iris as its symbol. As the name indicates, the "marsh iris" is a plant growing in humid areas. The historical center of Brussels is built on swamps where this flower used to grow abundantly.
In 1998, the Brussels Museum of the Gueuze celebrated its 20th anniversary. The Cantillon brewery decided to make a new spontaneous fermentation beer for this occasion, named after this symbolic flower.
It is a completely original beer which, contrary to the other products of the Brewery, is not brewed with 35% of wheat. The Iris, which is only made with malt of the pale ale type (giving a more amber colour to the beer) conserves the typical flavour of the spontaneous fermentation, the complex aromas and the vinous taste.
The hopping is different too. Lambic is made with 100% dried hops, for the Iris we use 50% of dried hops and 50% of fresh hops. The latter cause a superb acidity, the former, due to their tannins, enable to conserve the beer while preserving all its qualities.
After two years in the barrel, the Iris undergoes a second fresh hopping two weeks before the bottling. A linen bag, filled with hops, is soaked in the beer for two weeks. This technique, called "cold hopping", gives the beer a more intense savour and makes the smell and the taste more bitter.
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 JB175 (1654), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Jul 22, 2007  
2004 bottle. Light golden-orange color with a white fading head. Aroma has some nice sourness, wood, and sharp citrus. Flavor is a nice sour/acidic citrus with just a hint of wood, some vinous/wine flavors, and a nice sour feel. A nice Lambic that is smooth, tart and enjoyable.


 larsga (2937), Oslo, Norway
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/102/513/20
Jul 20, 2007  
Small offwhite head. Hazy, amber body. Soft metallic hoppy aroma with the typical grainy, wooden metallic lambik aroma in the background. Sour, bitter metallic grainy lambik taste with strong grassy metal hop notes. Bitter, sharp metal aftertaste with intense lingering grassy hop taste. The hops round out the usual intense one-dimensional lambik character a bit. Nice. (0.375l bottle from gr0ve.)


 BrockLanders (747), Panama City, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Jul 20, 2007  
Bottle. BIG pillowy white head....can hardly see the brew beneath. Color is a hazy amber orange hue. Don’t care too much for the aroma....the sourness really grabs you....yeasty and citric all the way. Flavor is fairly tart and fruity...the sourness is what this brew is about. Dry in the end with a citrus edge that was evident during the entire glass. Not my style, but interesting anyway.


 JFURYCAT (782), East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/516/20
Jul 15, 2007  
Bottle at River St. Ale House which I split with some buds. Pleasantly sour with all the palatte cleansing tongue sucking I’d ever desire with some horse leathery citrus flavors and wood in there. The sourness is here but its not overdone, just right.


 gunnfryd (3539), Kristiansand, Norway
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 14, 2007  
Bottle. Golden/ Orange colour with an off-white head.. Aroma is sour, apple, yeast, grapefruit. Flavour is sour, apple, yeast, cellarnotes, citrus. nice beer.


 badlizard (2325), Berkeley, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Jul 12, 2007  
750 mL bottle. 2004 Vintage. Hazy orange with fluffy white head. Floral sour aroma. Bright acidic palate. Lemon sour taste with a dry finish.


 maeib (4677), Wootton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Jul 9, 2007  
Bottled - Swan & Rushes - Leicester. A mildly hazy bronze coloured beer with a whitish head. The aroma is dry, sharp and harshly acidic. The taste is puckeringly sour. dry as a bone, and tongue wrenchedly acidic. Sounds dreadful reading this back, but ooh it’s good.


 yngwie (4880), Kristiansand, Norway
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 9, 2007  
Bottle, 75cl corked. Unclear, orange pour, with a small off-white head. Rubber and citrus, especially grapefruit, in the aroma. The flavor is citrusy as well, mostly grapefruit here too, with cellar to follow. Nice, astringent mouthfeel. A really tooth-cleansing beer, quite nice, but there’s a rubbery touch to it that I don’t like. (070526)



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