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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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 LilKem (1210), Marietta, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Apr 8, 2007  
raspberry, cherry, and grape flavors with very dry mouthfeel and fizzy reddish pink head. some sour funky flavor but not crazy funky just moderate in its funk-ness. like sour cherry and overripe raspberry.


 Dedollewaitor (3642), Odense, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Apr 8, 2007  
Rose sour with fine white head. Sour berries, very fruity. Easy vinegar & earthy. Very complex & highly enjoyable!


 beermouth (434), Langeskov, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/516/20
Apr 8, 2007  
Amazing colour... Red, pink, yellow, orange, white!!! Also with a rocky white head. Lot’s of rasberry, peach, plum, apple and lemon. Good solid structure and fine acidity.


 Veer (355), Landskrona, Sweden
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/515/20
Apr 7, 2007    Updated: Oct 10, 2008
Aroma: fantasic, sour, perfect, like a perfect kriek, soapy, sweet, berryish, wonderful. Raspberries, strawberries, wood land strawberry, peach, rowanberry, black currant, earth...funk.
Appearance: dark red, cloudy, light pink head. Beautiful.
Flavour: mmmm, wonderful sourishness, some saltiness is sensible, outright fantastic, almost sweet in it’s full body however dry.
Palate: smooth, but sparkling, dry feeling, fat body but narrow.


 mephisto (1144), Taiwan
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Mar 31, 2007  
another very tart lambic from cantillon. pink colored with yeasty flavor, it is very sour.


 CharlesDarwin (1834), Point Judith, Rhode Island, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
Mar 31, 2007    Updated: Apr 5, 2007
Pizza Port Belgian Beer Fest. Pour from a 750mL. Aroma comes forth with nice rasperry pits and cherry skin tannins in the nose. Rosy and floral. Pours a deeper red with crimson core and peachy edges. Flavor carries a woody tooth across a tart cherry juice base, to a seca cherry pit. One of the drier renditions, but it finds it’s place as a crisp clean and tart finish that makes it rather enjoyable.


 Grovlam (3809), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Mar 30, 2007  
Bottle. [Enjoyed with thewolf on Plan B] Small fluffy reddish head that mostly diminished. No evidence of any lacing. Body was cloudy and reddish looking. Aroma was raspberries, apple, cherry, vinegar and other notes of dust, wood, barnyard and some malty sweetness. Medium bodied with an average carbonation. Flavor was moderated acidic with some balancing sweetness. Nice slightly dry and acidic finish.


 lagomswedish (213), Umeå, Sweden
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Mar 28, 2007  
Pours an outrageous shade of cloudy pink with a short-lasting head. Behind the lambic funk and stable smells are the raspberries, along with a bit of wood. I expect sourness in this style of beer - but in this particular bottle it was too much, bordering on vinegar.



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