Cantillon Iris

Cloudy golden. Wonderful sweet aroma. Very nice...Very bitter start mellows quicly. Lots of hops in this.

(Bottle 75 cl) Slightly hazy amber golden with a tiny, off-white head. Fresh but rather mellow acidity in the aroma. Medium body and very dry but with a - for Cantillon - subdued sourness. None of the real dirty horse sweat notes either. 291006

shared with puzzl. light amber color, with yeasty, damp wood-y funkiness, some citrus (more like the oils from the peel) and some winey type things in the aroma. flavors: damp wood, wine-like, and sour, especially a very definite grapefruit flavor; it doesn’t just have that bitter grapefruit flavor that some more hoppy beers sometimes do, but it also has that acidic, slightly sweet grapefruit flavor as well. a little bit of pomegranate (esp. the seeds) perhaps in the aftertaste as well. dry. at first i couldn’t really handle this beer (flavor-wise it seemed to come on really strong at first, and there was some really irritating tingly feeling/taste at the front of my tongue that really bothered me when i first sipped it), but it’s been growing on me.

Once again, I’m glad td these lambics are fully fermented out, because upon (very very carefully!) pulling the cork, I sprayed beer all over the room. Luckily, I hardly had to clean anything, as there is no stickiness!

2000 bottle, big pop, a ton of fizz. The cork was quite damp, luckily they cap and foil too, so no oxidation had taken place. Aroma is slightly vinous, good sourness, a very slight hint of citrus, light funk. A little dead in the mouth, despite the gushing, this could use more carbonation... it tastes near still. Flavor is good mellow sourness, though not refined and gentle as other mellow sours I’ve had. It still has that distinct, slightly metallic Cantillon sourness, though.

Bottle from my Secret Santa, thanks!

Draft at the Dog and Pony. Wow, sorry everyone who likes this. This is just so totally overbearing. Pours a medium brownish amber with little head and zero carbonation. Overhwhelmingly sharp and tart lemony, acidy nose. Same for the palate. Almost undrinkable.

On tap a the Dog and Pony in Renton. I’ll probably come around to this style, and appreciate the "superb acidity" but not tonight. I commented to the bartender that I didn’t like the lemonade so much. She was concerned that someone had hooked lemonade up to the taps.

Bottle. Not as sour as Grand Cru but you can fin the fruit there. A bit low key.

Beer 14 of the tasting. This has quite a bit of bite, not as much as the Hannsens. A simpler lambic in complexity, it seems fairly smooth as well. Good stuff. Love that sour bite.