Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

750mL bottle, 2005 vintage. Dark red-orange with a medium sized fizzy white head. Cow patty and damp vegetation cover a deep acetic raspberry aroma. Phenolic character up front, cidery raspberry flavors collide with a burgeoning acetic sourness and musty Brett. Heavy residual astringent tartness in the finish. Mouthfeel is very dry.

Pours a soda pop pink with a quickly fizzing champagne-like head. Aroma is intensely sour with a huge amount of raspberries. Body is intensely light and dry. Flavors are all ras and acid with very little in the way of funky barnyard aromas. The finish is bone dry and quick. Nice framboise but I would have liked a little more of the lambic character to shine through.

2004 750 ml bottle from ClarkVV. Pours a hazy copper color with a small white head. Nose smells of light fruit and brett. A sour touch overwelms everything around it. Palate is sour and fresh. A nice crispness to the beer. the flavor is 100% brett and wild yeast. A nice sourness and lots of sour feelings to it. Bits of fruit attempt tp save the day but the sourness is not to be tampered with. A sour beer this shall remain happily.

12-oz. corked and capped bottle. Pours a hazy ruby with some orange notes, a foamy-frothy pink head that mostly dissipates. Aroma is fruity berries (raspberry), citrus notes (lemon), malt, yeast, grass, hay and straw. Tart, acidic green raspberries with a lemon zing that forces the saliva glands into action. Medium bodied and fizzy, dry palate.

Re-rate, bottle at Durty Nellie’s in Jan 08: Much more appreciated the style and production this time around, although it’s firmly soured, tart, and funky. You can’t beat a product like this if you’re looking for a true fruit lambic. Raspberry influences were farm more prominent this time around. Nice stuff. Original rating: Bottled in 2004. I keep attempting to gain in my appreciation of hard core lambics, and it’s not working. The appearance was the best part, nice ruby reddish rose color (although no head). Aroma was barnyard funky with a lot of tart and sourness. The flavor was much of the same with the raspberries only coming through at a very low level. The sour and funkiness far overpower any other qualities of this one. Mouthfeel was flat and acidic feeling.

75 cl bottle. Ruby colour with no head. Yearty and sour aroma, hints of raspberry. Very sour and acidity flavour hard to find anything but sourness, I hope I one day could love this kind of beer.....

From bottle. Poured ruby red. Fizzy, fast diddipating white bubbly head. Aroma of sour cherries and berries. First sip brings a funky, sour, earthiness. Berry in the aftertaste. Smooth and refreshing. Crisp. Dry mouthfeel. medium bodied.

Just brought up 400 ratings and what better way to celebrate. Bottle from the Chequers Inn in Binham (Norfolk) to cap off a fine dinner. A hazy peachy red colour with the carbonation you would expect. A sour fruit aroma of cherrries. Sourness grabs your tongue, as you would expect with a Cantillon, but gives way to a subtle smoothness, allowing the strawberries to come through in the flavour. A clinging bitter dryness follows, along with flavours of cherries in the finish. Yum (and worth every pence of the price).