Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Hazy pale red with a small pink head. Fruity and sour notes. Taste is also acidic with some fruit. Medium body with a dry finish.

2002. murky brown with no head. very loud, fizzy pour. strong oak, brett aroma with light raspberry. flavor is dried apricots and raspberry with plenty of sourness, acid, and brett. as usual, too sour for me.

Draft at monks. Reddish color with a light pink head. Aroma dominated by acidic raspberries with some light sourness. Flavor is dominated by raspberries with a hint of lemon and funk. Not bad, but for Cantillon this is pretty disappointing. Maybe some time on a bottle of this will sour it up.

Bottle from the brewery. Subtle pink colour with a moderate, rose-tinted head. Aroma was of yeast, the farmyard and a hint of raspberries. The mouth feel was puckering, with plenty of acidity. Flavours of red soft fruit with a very dry finish. Very enjoyable.

Appears a pinkish, rose colored amber with a small white head that quickly fizzles out into nothing. Pockets of chunky CO2 slowly rise to the top. Smell is of wild yeast, tart raspberries, barnyard funk, oaky, and musty earth. Taste is of sweet tarts with the mentioned aromas leading to a mouth puckering goodness up front. Taste is slightly vinous with a touch of vinegar coming through Mouthfeel is medium bodied, sweet, acidic, tart, oaky, and dry.

This was my first dance with a real lambic. Well I mean a traditional styled one. (What’s "real"? Right, Neo?) Keeping that in mind, I want to review it based on what it should be and not based solely on my tastes alone. The first thing I thought was of course: "sour". The color is a dull reddish/pink and I never felt like the raspberries came out super strong. There was an underlying tone, but nothing harsh or overdone by any means. The style is interesting and I definitely want to try more, I just think my immature palate has some growing up to do.

750 ml bottle from Bevmo. Hazy pink with no head. Intense vinegar sourness. Lip puckering sourness with a fruity strawberry after taste. I know it’s a raspberry lambic, but it tastes like strawberries. A bit too sour for me, but my wife loves it. She’s a bit of a sour woman, ha ha ha. If you don’t like it, you can always strip paint with this one. No it’s really not that bad; give it a try.

Another fine beer from Cantillon. "Shared" at a company picnic. And I say "shared" because the beer loving wimps there took one whiff and ran the other way. Ignorant heathens. In any event, this was aparently an older bottle because not much ofd the raspberry was left in the body. A faint raspberry tinge in the nose but very sour in the aroma and flavor. A little barnyard funk here and there. Most excellent.