 Emil (6075), Copenhagen, Denmark
Mar 9, 2005 Bottle at the brewery. Orange colour with no head. Grape, light acid aroma and a dry sweet sour taste. Medium to full body and a sweet sour finish.
aspidites (1274), manteca, California, USA
Mar 3, 2005 Very nice fruit characteristics along with a milder more accesible Geueze base. very nice introduction beer for the non Lambicaphile.
heemer77 (4294), Savannah, Missouri, USA
Feb 17, 2005 Deep gold with lots of carbonation. Surprisingly restrained nose for a Cantillon. Sour lemons and vinegar with hay and some vineous notes. The taste is a mouthpuckering sour vinegar and limes at first. As you keep drinking, you get hints of some dry champagne. Then a grassy hay character. Nice if you like lambics that are more dry than sour.
marcus (1821), Sacramento, California, USA
Feb 15, 2005 Consumed at Cantillon brewery. This golden lambic ale pours with an off-white head that dissipates quickly. Since the bottle we were served was younger than the commercial version, the flavor was sweeter than with other bottles I have had, and there was far less carbonation. Still, it was more tart and better balance than most other lambics.
kook (2034), Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Feb 6, 2005 Big funky lambic aroma much like a gueuze. Still hazy gold. Sweet start with a hint of grape flavour. Quite acidic and sour, very refreshing. Nice.
SilkTork (4151), Rochester, Kent, England
Feb 1, 2005 The Great Kilburn Gathering. Dry and woody aroma. Dry, mouth puckering and head shaking and off putting. Not an inviting SilkTork type of beer at all.
maeib (4677), Wootton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Feb 1, 2005 Bottled at The London/Joet Gathering Chez Chris O. A hazy peach coloured lambic witha funky farmyard aroma. The taste is funky and has that lambic burn but I’m not getting any grapes or much fruit at all for that matter. Enjoyable but doesn’t deliver what it promises.
argo0 (6851), Washington DC, USA
Jan 31, 2005 (750ml, bottled in 2002) Ginger ale-fizz sound on the pour reveals an off white head that rapidly dissipates completely, and a clouded golden body. Aroma is mild sweet, quite sour, barnyard, muscat, vinegar, some cheese, mustiness. Taste is minimally sweet, quite sour, muscat, lemon, grapefruit, barnyard, light salt. Medium body, acidic. For me, the hardest part about enjoying a Cantillon is the adjustment my palate must make to accommodate the sourness -- I need a few ounces to pass across my tongue before I can even begin to appreciate it. I have to admit that in this case, with its sharp sourness and acidity, and absence of balancing elements, I have no idea why I bothered. I am ok with this beer, but by no means does it make we want to ever consume another bottle.
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