Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Naked girl is sitting on some dude while he pets her and she looks like Venus with arms. Pop the lid to reveal a cork, blast, now I must get the wine bottle cork puller. Opening lambics is a process all it’s own. Cork out and it smells like a sour fruit drink, a little perfumy. Pours like thick apple juice in my steeler stein. There is muck in the dimpled bottom of the bottle. Appearance of cloudy darker apple cider or juice. No bubbles in the brew. Very flat, flat impressing first taste. I don’t really think this is a beer. A sour, rotten cranberry flavor that is nothing like I have ever had, but in a good way. I’m not sure if there is actually carbonation in there or if it’s just my taste buds shrinking up. Quite an experience. The closest thing I can relate this to is drinking the red wine vinegar and oil mix grandma used to put on the endive. The flavors are so overwhelming that you would never envision any alcohol whatsoever in there. Finish is not bitter nor lingering but a finish does signal relief to my uvula. Very unlike any beer I have ever tasted. No description in the space provided here could ever do this drink justice. I’m going to put this in the same class of beers as bitter stouts and double IPA; beer that you must get used to - to appreciate. Definitely not for the faint of heart who gags easily. Even tho the flavor was odd, I find myself mysteriously wanting another bottle! Quite stimulating.

Bottle, 2002. Really fresh raspberriy aroma, almost more raspberry than raspberries themselves! Crisp aroma. Head with big bubbles, pink-orange-red colour. Dry, emancipating taste with some apples and grapefruit. Doesn’t really taste raspberries actually, but a very good beer.

I’ve had other fraboise before, but this one didn’t do much for me. It seemed to taste like very little to me, and I felt that it would have benefited from signficantly more fruit character. The color is a cloudy brown. If you take Bud Light, throw in a handful of skittles, and wait; you’ll get the same color (don’t ask me how I know this, but trust me; it is not a recent experience). Not attractive. Not at all red like other framboise I’ve tried. This beer smells slightly sweet, and smells a lot like champagne. The taste is sour on the tip of my tongue, but otherwise not very flavorful. I expected more fruitiness from a framboise.

Bottle. Hazy golden orange with a nice white head. Sour aroma with cellar, dirt, fruit and berries. Flavour is sour with citrus and fruit.

Bottle Rating #1000 ! Pours a hazy gold, peach color with a small white film odf a head. Musty and yeasty with distinct rasberry notes. Flavor is sour and quite dry. Some of that Belgian horsy flavors and he raspberries are not trampled. Nice Lambic flavor overall and the finish is dry and tart. Wich the bottle was a bit bigger.

Golden body, small beige head. Strong yeasty aroma, sugar, some flowers. Sour, uncomplex strong flavour.

12oz bottle from 2002. Clear copper body. White frothy head with a slight pink hue. Aroma is raspberry graced horseblanket, and what I consider to be "Cantillon dry soured concord grape skin". Aroma seems to be wafting off the glass from two feet away, and creates a sour funk in the air. Some dry pepper too. Its all there but not 100% interesting. Sour lambic mixture taste... quick dry finish. Yeasty oak. No too bad.

Aroma is a potent sourness and funk. Pours a dirty orange brown that I had to work at hard to get any sort of head. The taste is bitter but not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be from the smell. Oak and fruit flavors comeout after the bitterness leaves finishes very clean with a bit of raspberry aftertaste, not bad I’m starting to get in to the lambic style.