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Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Percentile
93
overall
Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit

Brussels, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6993.63/5.03.62/5.05%66.5Flute, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
"It has the colour of onion skin", said a voice behind me. It was Raymond Coumans. He was admiring the colour of the raspberry lambic reflecting in the red copper of the buckets used to empty the barrels. At that time (1986), "Raspberry-Lambic" already was synonymous with a sweet, artificially flavoured beer. This is why we decided to distinguish our beer from the other raspberry beers. Raymond proposed to call it a rosé, dedicated not to Bacchus but to Gambrinus.

The process to make this beer is identical to the one to make Kriek. When young, the Rosé de Gambrinus will still present its full fruity taste. Later on, the lambic taste will become dominant at the expense of the fruit taste.

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 Travlr (727), Washington, Washington DC, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/104/518/20
Nov 28, 2008  
Tasted a 1986 bottle, brewed in 1984, stored well at the Kulminator in Antwerp. Cloudy orange/amber with scant head. Aroma of raspberries, lemon, and wet horse-blanket (but in a good way!). Potent sourness, dusty dryness, and a yeasty-finish. More complex, more sour, and drier than a younger bottle.


 TomDecapolis (3149), Skippack, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/514/20
Nov 26, 2008  
Pours a lightly hazy red with a smaller creamy/bubbly white head. Aroma was floral, tart raspberries, barnyard funk and light alcohol. Flavor of tart raspberries, floral, lots of puckering funkiness but sweet raspberry to keep it drinkable.


 Funknmilla (577), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/57/103/516/20
Oct 29, 2008    Updated: Dec 31, 2008
Draft at Teresa’s next door...Ruby in color, opaque and a slight cloudiness...no head just a little white on top...sweet and tart raspberry flavor...a light raspberry aroma...its almost on the verge of a sour...quite good...no carbonation and a slightly sweet finish


 AtlAggie (132), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Oct 19, 2008  
Beautiful, brilliant ruby red in color. Poured with no head. Aroma sweetly floral and strongly of raspberries. Raspberry flavor well balanced by the beer’s general sourness, keeping it from being overly sweet. Nice.


ManvsCity (93), Redmond, Washington, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/516/20
Oct 17, 2008  
Bottle from La Cave ĺ Bulles, Paris. Not quite as sour as the Kriek from Cantillon. Beautiful light burgandy colored body. Big frothy purple head. You get the incredible sourness first on the tongue, then a waft of sour yeast yeast creeping up the back of the nose. The fruit only flashes at the end. A perfect sipping beer. Amazing.


 garmonbozia (227), Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/105/518/20
Oct 16, 2008  
Bottle from Sprikle at Crown Liquors. Ok this is a great beer. Nice sour taste with lots of carbination. A beautiful red color. Man this is a great beer.


 renffisch (514), london, Greater London, England
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/105/518/20
Oct 13, 2008  
lovely sour farmy nose, quite sweet and lovely. gorgeous stuff. hazy red amber. very sour. but incredibly balanced. devinely sour, just as it should be!


 lassem (304), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/517/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Bottle 37,5 cl. Bottled 4/9 2007. Pours with a fizzy sound a hazy red (orange)with a sparkling pink fading head. The nose is fresh - bitter with sweet berries and notes of straw. The taste is sour sour sour in that special Cantillon way - Berries, wet hay, cloves and something like lactose. Finish is dry and bitter with rasberry-notes



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