Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Pink, with light pinkish head. Aroma is spicy, and foul, like equal parts ground pepper and rat turds. Taste starts as it smells, and then washes with intensely tart raspberry. Cutting acidity almost warms as it goes down. Taste fades into sweaty brett. $11/12oz

Pours a cloudy deep orange-pink color. Aroma is raspberry, strawberry, lemon, and vinegar. Slightly dry and bubbly. Flavor is a tart/sour raspberry and strawberry. Very excellent beer.

Bottle. Golden/pale red color with a small white head. Aroma: Very sour, barnyard, hay, cheese, faint tart raspberries, and wood. Flavor: Very sour and tart, faint raspberries, acidic, barnyard and cheese. Dry finish. I would actually have liked a bit more raspberries.

From the Northcoast Coop this set me back a full $13.49 for 650 ml bottle. Poured a cloudy red with small off-white head and pink tinges on the bubbles. Nose is sour and clearly of raspberries. Mouthfeel is soft and smooth, and favor is a great sour note with raspberry sweetness backing it up. Simply sublime.

Very, very nice one here! Thanks to Sprinkle for the suggestion that I give this one a shot, and I’m very glad I did. Just like the description says, its the color of onion peels, with lots of small "floaties" in the brew. Pencil thin head around the sides of the glass, with minimal lacing. Aroma is nice and sour, full of raspberry. Flavor is all that and more. Sour, funk, raspberry, straw. Hint of flowers in the background. Sweet, but dry and tart (which is perfectly dealicious). Overall, a great beer, with big boobs on the label...how can you go wrong?

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.