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Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus - Lambic - Fruit

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 Percentile 
93
overall
Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit

Brussels, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6933.62/5.03.62/5.05%67.1Flute, Tumbler
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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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 daknole (2805), Plantation, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Aug 24, 2009  
Bottle shared by JW77 and his wife! Pours a nice red color. Aroma is full of tart cherries, raspberry, light oak, vinegar, and funk. Flavors follow suit with a great tartness but so much wonderful fruit on the finish. Very very good!


Listigovers (96), Ontario, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/58/105/513/20
Aug 24, 2009    Updated: Oct 2, 2009
Bottle at Beer Bistro, did not check age. Extremely beautiful and potent aroma. Bright pink colour with a fluffy white head. Very acidic and sour flavour, not like anything I’ve ever had before (being only my 3rd lambic) a little difficult to drink. Eating food with it was good to cut the extreme sour flavour. A taste I need to acquire. Interesting mouthfeel, weird carbonation.


witthatsbier (17), glasgow, Scotland
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/520/20
Aug 23, 2009  
dry sour wonderful lambic from the most traditional of brewers in anderlecht this beer with added raspberries and sometimes a little cherry is a world class example


 DeweyDell (155), Columbus, Ohio, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/103/518/20
Aug 10, 2009  
Pours a light red color with a frothy pink head - very feminine looking (I’m okay with that.) Smells... not as fruity as imagined, more like a gueze I think. It’s definitely got the sour, wet hay smell, and the raspberries are there - just subtle. Taste is definitely more raspberry. It’s got a huge sour punch that hits you right in the middle of the tongue. I really like this a lot, probably one of my favorite lambics (though I probably say that more often than I think, ha!)


 DrHomolka (726), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/517/20
Aug 10, 2009  
750ml bottled Oct 1 2008. Pours a lovely bright cherry red with a light pink head. Size and retention of head are better than most in this style, I have to say. Aroma shows intense Cantillon funk. Urinal, pee pee, ripe fruit. Cherry and raspberry both present though the fruit is not overpowering. A tart acidity (redundant?) is present in the aroma leading one to believe this will be quite sour. Sweet fresh raspberries more prevalent as this warms. The taste is mildly tart with an acidic mildly lactic finish. Mildly fruity throughout. Dry and somewhat watery. More fruit or more sourness in the flavor would be nice, this does not have much of either. This is good though. I really can’t complain.


 shp555 (1678), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/102/517/20
Aug 10, 2009  
Pours a nice rose color with a pink head. Aroma is brett, sweat, goat, fruity, and tart. Flavor is nice fruity, brett, goat, and a dry cobbweb dry finish.


 armando629 (954), Budapest, Hungary
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Aug 10, 2009  
Nice appearance with a pink body and a medium pink head what diminishes quickly. Aroma of raspberries, barnyard and vinegar, tart lemonade. The flavor is fruity with raspberries(of course), grapefruit, some vinegar taste. Absolutly correct lambic-framboise one....


 DandyWolfFloyd (331), Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 10, 2009  
Aroma of raspberries and parts unknown (not sure, but is that CFC’s smoldering?), yeast, and floral esters. The appearance is a dark rosy color with a thin pink collar, (the bottle has a surly lad feeling up a strumpy tart. BONUS!!!). The flavor has unique flavors of tart raspberry, both vinuous and sour, almost puckering sour. Some tasty yeasts are also present. The feel is very tart right off, finishing to an ultimate sour that tempers out only after a prolonged time.



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