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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 
5933.76/5.03.75/5.05%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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 ಠַಠ (1375), San Francisco, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/515/20
Jun 4, 2007    Updated: Jun 29, 2007
2004 bottle, consumed at the brewery. Stale cheese aroma, cotton-ish dry mouthfeel. Nice amber with a thick head. Dizzingly complex and hard to rate. Yeasty, a bit sour, some grapes. A good beer but the malts really weigh on your palate and make it hard to get much into a bottle...my girlfriend and I took a long time to finish the 750 mL, and she’s no slouch when it comes to drinking her share, especially for a 95 pound 5’2" Japanese girl. I started playfully trying to take her glass from her and pour more into it, and she responded by saying that she would befriend the German group at the next table (ya know, her "allies"), as to make war on me. I guess I can forgive this given that she’s from Hiroshima...


 Quevillon (1519), Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, Canada
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/519/20
Jun 3, 2007  
Bu au Post-Mondial 07. Blonde dorée brumeuse, petit collet. Arome d’houblon épicé, surtout gingembre. Goût d’houblon doux, agrume très sûrette et pétillant.


StumpMe (30), Bellingham, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/103/517/20
Jun 2, 2007  
I had this one on draft at Brouwers Belgian Beer Month in Seattle. Appearance was a cloudy yellow/orange and had an average head at first pour. Flavor was sour, like grapefruits, acid, citrus. Its smell was floral, mild hoppiness. I also liked how it lingered in my mouth.


 beerinmarch (2781), Alabama, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
May 18, 2007  
2004 bottle. Pours orange with a fast fading white head. The acidity and sourness are there, but seem more muted in this one, maybe it was the few years of aging that mellowed them, but then again i’ve had cantillon beers that are much older that didn’t seem muted. Light citrus and woody flavor to the finish.


 Miguel (1181), Saint-Ours, Quebec, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/518/20
May 12, 2007  
Édition 2004. Robe orange claire surmontée d’une mousse blanche qui s’estompe. Arômes de poussières, d’oranges sucrées et de houblon. Saveurs acides d’oranges amères, de malt et de houblon amérisant.


 Theis (3617), Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/517/20
May 10, 2007  
Bottle (2003) at Ølbaren. Cloudy orange - white head. Vinegar, berries, wood, fu, sour, acid, earth, dirt, light horsey. Rather smooth and pleasant !!


 BeerBiker (1384), Odense, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 4, 2007  
#500
[Sampled with Thomas in Söderåsen, Skåne, Sweden.]
Another milestone in two ways. With thisone I’ve also rated all the 71 different Beer Styles. So this Lambic - Unblended I’ve reserved for this rating in Sweden after a nice long day on bike. Sweaty I swallowed it with pleasure, more than expected. Hazy light brown look with good great, but dissapearing head. Notes of wild yeast, grapes, acid, grass, wood, flowers and more. High drinkability!


 ekstedt (2411), Göteborg, Sweden
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/515/20
May 2, 2007  
Bottle, 375 ml. Cloude orange/amber, almost no head. Fruity malt aroma with cidery notes of grape and red apples. Along with this, there are strains of wet wool and leather, and some wood. medium bodied with soft but lively carbonation. Flavour has a little to sharp acidity, with a pungent bitterness.



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