Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

NIce flavour,m the aroma is good, and it is unfiltered, the labael is sexy, but the beer is awesome by itself.

Aroma is lemony with some sour apples, rasberry after a while with some sort of hay maybe coming through also. Taste is similar with again rasberry being the fruit i can find, no cherrys in site. The pour here is beautiful, hazy pink wth a huge head, one to get again defo. RERATE: 1984 bottle, Kulminator. This was the first ever batch, we had bottle 0460. Super drinkable, like theres still hints of sourness, but its mellowed the rasberry is noteable cherry is long gone. Just an outstanding beast in every way.

2004 Bottle. Poured an orange color with a small white head. The aroma was earthy with some light spices. Raspberry flavor with some extreme tartness in the mouth. I also have horse blanket scribbled in my notes but I don’t remember if this was a flavor I found or me asking Jay for one to wipe the sourness off my tongue. Thanks bro for sending this out for the Tennessee Tasting! You warned me it would be sour.

Bottle, shared by NachlamSie. Pours a hazy bright orange with minimal whitish head. The aroma is a distinct earthy sourness, with notes of cheese, slight sweat, muscadine, raspberry, cumin. The flavor is refreshingly sour, with dry earthiness and mild acidity. There is a faint fruity hint of the raspberries, but not overtly so. An assertive cheese tone lasts into the aftertaste. Pretty good.

Bottle: Orange base, strong pink influence, slightly hazy, small to moderate light pink head, fizzy, dies quickly, spotty lacing.   Tart oaken nose, subtle raspberry, somewhat immature in nature.   Tart on the tongue, bordering on sour.   Raspberry is apparent, but not in the sweet sense.   Becomes more noticeable as it warms.   Moderate to full body, mouthfeel is average.   Dry, tart finish.   Very little raspberry at this point.   Wished the fruit aspect was a bit stronger.   Otherwise clean and fairly tasty.

After trying this one I believe it’s more endowed for honours as the ’champagne of Belgium’ than their notably fierce and addictive Gueuze. Honestly this lacked a little too much of the Cantillon lambic character and was a little too crowd pleasing to be a classic. My wife even liked it as it was "as close to a Rosé sparkling wine as beer has ever been". Thats not to say I didn’t like it!!!
Poured into a flute; a wonderfully alluring peachy orange body, slightly hazy, with no head at all to cap it off. Tart mix of cherries and raspberries, spoiled fruit and musty sour-dough, lemons and vanilla in the intriguing but not enticing aroma. I love the first mouthful of these beers as it rips the finer layers of skin right off every corner of the mouth. Talk about acidic. This one is really dry with feint notes of peaches under layers of soft cherries and raspberries, ripe lemons and grapeskins. It’s well attenuated alright, having a thin body, extremely dry palate and a mouthfeel similar to an aged rosé champagne. Finish has a little musty, slightly cheesy note before tart, drying fruit turn to acidic dryness and disappear. I liked it, but I didn’t expect such a clean, sour and dry example of lambic as what I tasted here. Refreshing like champers but not really my thing. One to try again fresh. (37,5cL, Bottled in 2004, Int’l Beer Shop, W. Leederville)

Bottle. To many people, I am aware that this review may rightly reflect as much about me and my social environment as the beer. But, my palate is still not able to adapt to such things at this point, and it yet surprises me that this seriously pleases anybody. I want to like it - and I find it a touch more apalatable than say, a rodenbach grand cru. But to me, it still has an undesirable manure farmy fruit tart aroma, and the beer tastes like almost nothing but sour acidic vinegar, cider vinegar. The fruit is barely detectable, and provides the faintest tinge of puckering sweetness, almost no sweetness at all. I can barely manage to drink a small amount of this. I may keep trying, and more power to the people who like this, but it’s completely bizarre to me. I don’t think lindemans is a wonderful or terribly authentic product but, at least I can drink that, so it has a higher rating. It also occurs to me that possibly my bottle wasn’t very good - a significant portion of the beers I bought at Oliver’s in Albany NY seem to have been infected or bad... but in this case I just think this is an extremely sour beer made for a small minority of people who are pleased by this... I will likely not ever be one of those people, and I don’t see any reason to be embarrased about that.

2004...my first serious lambic. Yikes...is this what they are supposed to be. Pours a very nice looking pale orange/pink with hardly any head. Smelled extremely tart/sour...with a bit of yeast funk and fruit. Tasted extremely sour and had just a bit of fruity raspberry...but nothing in the brew could possibly contend with that sourness. Mouthfeel was actually quite smooth and dry. Not my favorite...but I guess lambics are going to take some getting used to.