Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Bottle at the Rake, 24th July 09. Bright red in colour. Strong sour aroma and initial taste, but quite sweet once it is on the tongue. Controlled sourness and good tart raspberry flavours. Enjoyable.

750 ml bottle. Pours a pretty clouded raspberry tinted slightly brown with an incomplete thin head head that disappeared within a minute. Pleasant aroma of raspberries, lemon and some mild funk. The flavor is brightly tart with both raspberries and lemon and just a hint of funk. Properly acidic at the finish. Lively on the palate. Enjoyable!

Bottle from brewery: Pours a beautiful pinkish red with no head. Large sour notes, fruity (raspberry and grapefruit). Sour, yeasty arouma. Drinks like a happy champagne. I like this even better than Cantillon’s Kriek. I wish I had gotten 3 more bottles.

after a super pleasant experience with a girardin framboise, i figured i better continue with a cantillon also made with raspberries. clash of the titans.. anyway. 75 cl bottle 2004 on the cork. all by myself while wathcing a taped lecture on string theory and quantum physics. orange faded reddish color, small white head. aroma is stable, not much discernible fruit in there, but lots of sour, leather, stable etc. quite typical cantillon aroma. flavor is quite citric, excessively dry, but still the flavor is refreshing and you get hints of fruits rounding off the dry citric sourness. palate is prickly and very nice. overall the impression is of concentrated fresh lemon juice (no added water), with stuff added for breath and depth. grapefruit, raspberries primarily.

Just wasn’t a fan of this at all. Mauve colored pour with a small ivory head. Aroma and flavor exhibit tart raspberry, barnyard funk, lemon peel, and vinegar. This one had the incredible mouth-puckering sour quality but lacked any real depth that I’ve had with the more exceptional examples of the style. Medium mouthfeel.

Source:2005, 375 mL bottle shared at a tasting.
Glass:Taster.
Appearance:Hazy amber/red pour with a thin off white head.
Aroma:Heavy funk with raspberries and vinegar.
Flavor:Extremely sour with a tart raspberry finish.
Palate:Light body with solid carbonation.
Overall:Excellent age on this one made for a great sour flavor. Wish I had a few.

Bottle. Pours a deep hazy brown with a small white head that all but vanishes in the first moments in the glass. Musky attic, raspberries, vinegar, wood, and a light funk. Medium body. Tart, and an interesting back and forth interplay with tart and sweet raspberries and bretty funk. Finishes with that lovely long lingering Cantillon acid.

Hazy strawberry/amber color with a thin white head. Aroma of wheat, spice, vinegar, and sour fruits/berries. This beer was about halfway through a pretty good beer tasting and I just love these outrageously sour beers at that point for a good switch-up. Taste is almost painfully sour raspberry but I couldn’t stop drinking it.