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Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus - Lambic - Fruit

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A Lambic - Fruit brewed by
Cantillon

Brussels, Belgium

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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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 VA Homebrewer (525), Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/103/513/20

Dec 6, 2004  
Pink tinged amber color, slightly hazy with a quickly dissipating pinkish head. Fruity raspberry aroma with sourness in the background. Mouth puckeringly sour flavor with hints of fruit in the background. Develops complexity as it warms, but remains accutely sour. Minimal barnyard qualities. This was a nice deviation from the norm for me. I enjoyed it, but don’t think I will return to it (or any other lambic) on a regular basis.

 j12601 (631), Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Jun 28, 2009  
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.


 curly (412), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
Jun 25, 2009  
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.


 smith4498 (709), Miami, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Jun 19, 2009  
375ml bottle 2008. Pours dark pink with light pink head. Barnyard funky aroma with sweet raspberry undertones. Very sour with a hint of tart raspberries. Acidic, dry finish. Light body with lively carbonation.


 Allen (1036), Wölflinswil, Switzerland
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Jun 8, 2009  
Bottled 375ml. Courtesy of kappldav123. It pours a pinkish copper beer with a quick diminishing fizzy off white head. The aroma is mainly of ammonia and raspberry. Very sour taste. Not enough balanced to my liking. Dry finish. Thanks kappldav123!


 sirpsycho (312), Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/511/20
Jun 6, 2009  
Bottle. Pours just like described in the description above, onion-skin color, just a touch of pink showing through, no head at all. First whiff hits you with a sour note, vinegar and a very subtle horse blanket hiding in the background. Sour notes make you pucker a bit, vinegar note is still there but not as noticeable, raspberries barely make their presence known. Finish is acidic, sour and really takes it’s toll on your tastebuds.


 kopher (215), New York, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Jun 6, 2009  
pours ruby, fine pink head. very strong fresh raspberry aroma with the dry sour lambic-y-ness underneath. also lots of yeast. taste is more sour than expected (i.e., much more sour than lindeman’s) with a bright raspberry body. finishes very dry, with a long sour and candy-sweet finish. fizzy, but not overly carbonated. this is good, the fruit provides sweetness and flavor without taking over the beer.


 MaxxDaddy (253), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Jun 6, 2009  
2000 vintage @ DHVL. Pours orange with a quickly dissipating white head. Aroma is very sweet raspberry, which is a bit curious for a lambic this old. Well, the taste is radically different and massively sour. Some raspberry taste in there, but man is it funky. Moderate lingering sour. Very tasty stuff.


 Anker (207), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/104/517/20
Jun 4, 2009  
Bottle. It pours a hazy orange colour with no head. The aroma is nice and dry with notes of rosehip, grape and weak notes of raspberries and humid cellar. I know its supposed to have a raspberry and not rosehip aroma but the fermentation must have tricked it. It’s lovely though! Flavour is extremely acidic with grape, rosehip and woody notes. Its a bit flat but dry, sour and delicious!



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