Cantillon Lou Pepe Pure Kriek

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Bottle @ Too many Geuze’s - only one toilet , Ulfborg 2012 - Day 1. 2008 Vintage. Nice red color with a lovely pinkish head. Aroma of fresh cherries, almond, marzipan, a bit of wood. The flavour is a moderate sour at first , then leaves a nice sweet cherry note, with soem unsweetened marzipan in the end. not as tart as I remember the plain Kriek. The cherry aftertaste last for long. Best kriek I had so far..

Bottle, pours murky unclear red, but I got some sediment too. Aroma: loads of woodyness, oak, vanilla, very clean tart cherry aroma, fruity sweetness,, dusty notes, acidic notes, brett, lovely aroma. Taste is fruity sweet with heaps of cherries and oak and vanilla, the acidity is there as well but very subtle, not as sour or acidic as cantilons can be. Some deep almost meaty flavours. You get the funk, dusty notes, Brett and its very complex but also really smooth, clean and balanced. Beautiful

This is the beer that should be the first in the standings! We say to the family Cantillon thanks for the existence of these treasures!

This version of Lou Pepe Kriek is from 2006. It pours a very dark red color. A light white head forms but quickly fizzes away to what you see in the picture. When I took my first smell I was very put off. It’s hard to explain but the beer smelled, well rotten. Like rotten eggs and cabbage. Ok maybe not that bad but I think you get the picture. But as I let it sit for a while the real goodness came out. The sourness stings the nose, beautiful hints of wood, cherries, vinegar. I fell in love with the aroma. Now from how sour the nose was, I thought I would get blasted in the taste, but it wasn’t like that. I’ve heard some Cantillon brews are just extremely sour and I can’t wait to try some but this one was more of a nice balanced sourness mixed in with the oak, cherries, and barnyard funk. Don’t get me wrong here, it’s definitely a little puckering. But not over the top. It also has a nice sugary sweetness that lingers on the taste buds. A masterpiece in my books. It’s complex but highly drinkable. Mouthfeel is nicely carbonated. Slick and medium bodied. The sourness lingers for a while after you’re done.

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07/24/11. 2009 Bottling. Pours like maraschino cherry juice. Hazy. Light pink head, looks like a light strawberry ice cream or something. Smell right away, tart, acidic sour cherry, and some yeast funkyness.Sweet, yet very sharp and musty. Taste is like a super sour apple acidity up front, totally caught off guard. Immediately the tartness and acidity decimate your palate, and then a very natural and soft cherry sweetness takes over. Starts to shift into this like twilight zone of some kind of fruit I know I’ve tasted before but I can’t put a name to it for the life of me. It’s meaty, in flavour not in texture, well at least the texture of the beer isn’t meaty, but the texture of that fruit would be. Almost reminds me a bit of a Kalamata olive. It would be like if you ate an olive that was sitting in pureed cherries and lemon juice. It’s medium bodied, and I would have thought that it would have been like champagne for carbonation, but it’s just really pleasant and compliments the flavour really well. The finish is mainly that tartness and holy crap is it dry.

Bottle, vintage 2006, courtesy of Nino of Sherwood. Pours a dark cloudy orange. Smells of balsamic, with some metallic oxidation, and basement funk. Tastes of sour cherries and grapes. Very nice.

Pours cherry red colour with profuse head that dissapears later. Fermented cherries and grapefruit in the aroma. Sweet and sour taste with the fermented notes present. Full body, thin feel, soft carbonation and medium sweetness and medium sourness in the after taste. Not my kind of beer but worth the try.

2007 bottle opened in 2012. Surprising amount of head when first poured from the bottle, but it settled quickly. Very complex but distinctive sour cherry lambic.

Bottle, courtesy GT2, thanks man! Pour is bright pink/red with a off-white/pink head, impressive retention/lace. Aroma of cherry, raspberry, funk, barrel. Taste is fruity, cherry, horseblanket, light oak. Plesantly tart and light. Palate is soft, tart, high carbonation, funky/mineral finish. Very nice.