Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Poured from a 750 ml bottle, vintage 2001. Thanks Joe! Fleshy, muddy, rusty red hue. Seedy acerbic raspberry aroma; alternately soft on stems and musty grass, and violent, on peppery funk; still dominant in that raw, sharp wooden acid character; rustic and rough.

Cutting, fresh raspberry flavor is sharply imbued with funk and minerals, though the fruit still seems impressively lively and evocative; the minerals, firey woods and acetic acids provide wildness and puckering punch never shrinking back, but naturally rich tartness of the fruit is what’s really the centerpiece, and it’s a beautiful, visceral experience. The vinegar acidity and puckering wooden heat grows more punchy mid-palate.

Still, the body is sumptuous and full, more diverse and more versatile than other high-acid examples; a typical, flaming acidic finish showing lengthy raspberry flesh and seeds; not immensely dry, but satisfying. The best non-gueze I’ve had from Cantillon; a clean, refreshing example that still has all the outrageousness you could ask for from a lambic.

Bottle from my friend Eric. Pours a nice ruby color with a frothy head. Aromas of berries and funk. Flavor is just pur vinegar, sour yeast and sour berries. I am not a sourhead and wont be any time soon. No sir.

2005 vintage on label, cork is stamped bottled 2007. Clear cherry juice color with a fleeting pink head. Big tart, barnyard funk, wood lemon aromas. Light / medium body. Hugely tart, saliva inducing mouthfeel at first fades some as your tongue goes numb. Very good flavors of woody raspberry seed with tart raspberry pulp and lemon and dry toasted wood. Stays nicely acidic throughout, and thankfully no aspirin burn on the way down. Simply awesome.

2003 version [vintage 2005]. Hazy red with a grey head that disapears quickly. What strikes me most in this beer is the aroma. It’s so intense, full of raspberries, sourness, acidic notes and wood. The flavour is sour and acid - like a combination of grapefruit and vinegear. But then again it is Cantillon - so I’m not surprised by a soar throat after one glass.

Bottle 75 cl from 2001.Vintage This bottle have been putted away for some time in a dark and cool celler - very good idea... The pour is golden redish with a tiny off-white head. The nose is crazy and fantastic full of the sweet rasberrys bot also notes of sweet gasolin. The aging have made this one more friendly, more round and relaxed but still with the sour snakebite that normally caracterise Cantillons beers. Strong rasberry-taste that isw both sour and fruity with a creamy smooth feeling. Thx for sharing Mikkel

Draught @ Ebenezer’s, 2005 vintage. Pours a clear bubbly red with a very pink fizzy head. Aroma is a slightly tart, dry rasberry, hint of fruity sweetness. Very tart, sharp, with rasberry emerging after initial shap vinegar tartness. Finish is lightly sour, with a faint rasberry exhale. Very carbonated, crisp, light bodied. Delicious.

75cl, exclusive fruit brew Anno 2006, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex, balanced, hazy, nearly no head, very good sour brew, but expensive

2001 Vintage Bottle. Thanks to BDR for sharing this. Cloudy, dark orange pour, little head, with visible milky sediment. Intense aroma of raspberry. Flavor is very tart, plenty of raspberry. Quite acidic. Excellent stuff!