Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Bottle 75cl @ Home. [ Vintage 2005 ]. Clear medium orange red color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is tart, sour, raspberry, sulphurous. Flavor is moderate sweet, moderate to heavy acidic and moderate bitter with a long duration, and a dry and tart finish. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is lively to soft. Very nice ;o)) (150708)

Another sour beer that I have extremely difficulty enjoying, and an extreme example at that. Funky, leathery scent with a highly sour, citric, acidic taste that burns a little in the stomach. Not at all pleasant or enjoyable, in my opinion. I feel a bit of a heathen, but it was very hard for me to get acquainted with this style.

Poured from a 750 ml bottle, vintage 2007. Thanks Mike! Bright, electric red, and opaque. Cheese and silage aroma, with lots of seeds and stems of raspberries, and less flesh. Some minerals, paint fumes, white pepper and lots of gravelly earth; the seed-stem notes are fairly forward throughout, and tend to bleed into the dusty funkiness otherwise notable. Too green, in general, and dormant a bit.

Flavor is reserved raspberries, soft pepper and a bit of floral bitterness; it’s elegant and detailed, if somewhat simple most often, and especially at the front; near the finish of each sip the sourness expands, and the farmhouse stinks expand, and it glows in a tepid balance of sourness, weird earthiness, and too-fresh fruit.

It still has a lot of the signature young-Cantillon roughness, but the acids are also quite buried yet; despite a somewhat acidic texture, the acetic and lactic flavors are still understated; finishes seedy and dry with lots of tannin, and unmemorably; far too young I think.

Wow... this was not what i was expecting. This was not dry at all. Great cantillon sourness with raspberry flavor, but it was wet! Thoroughly delightful. I wouldn’t think that wetness would be a pleasing thing in a lambic, but it was great.

[Vintage clue? 08DEC01] Thick syrupy brown vinegar seepage on the top of the cork. Pours a murky grapefruit pink with a lovely white froth. Big raspberry seed aroma with lots of dusty tart yeast as well, phenomenally great pairing. So tangy! intense... lingering raspberry seeds. This stuff is ridiculously sour and acidic. Like drinking raspberry flavored battery acid.

There is raspberry in the aroma but it is overpowered by bathroom, lactic bacteria, wild yeast, and acid. The appearance is raspberry red with a small head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. There is nothing in it to save it.

I like nice fruity lambic, but this just too way to sour for me to fully enjoy, the aroma is nice with some nice spring raspberries. The acidity of the beer is wild and intense, expect to pucker.

My first lambic . . . WOW. This is a whole new universe of flavor. I didn’t know beer could taste like this. Acid reflux-inducingly sour and acid - this really took me by surprise, but after a while I warmed up to it. Took me a long time to finish this, but it was still enjoyable once I wrapped my palate around it.