Cantillon Vigneronne

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

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.

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.

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.

(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.

Hazy golden, incredibly cloudy/muddy by the time you get to the last glass, with a very short lived and fizzy white head. Strong, pungent aroma, sour, cheesy, and very slightly fruity. The grapes add little, but it kind of cuts through the sour and balances it with a little sweetness. This is still very sour and gueuze-like, very acidic, and very tasty. I enjoyed every minute with this treat for New Years.

This one simply kicks ass. Unfiltered apple cider body with a creamy whire head and killer lace. Musty, earthy, tons of muscat, and a pleasant sourness. Sour musact flavor, light basement and cobweb. Medium dry champagne-esque body. I enjoyed this one on xmas eve with my brother (unclebleen). Some of my non beer geek relatives sampled it and actually enjoyed it. The muscat flavor really males this a great "starter" lambic. Excellent stuff!

(Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm) Orange colour, small white head. Wonderful deep aroma of grape-peels, old cheese, grapestones, grapefruit and lemon-peels with a note of cask. Dry tart flavours of grapefruit, grape-peels and hay. Fruity tart finish of green grapes and wood. Simply wonderful!

Spectacular. Bretty to the mellower extreme - not new as in Mo Betta (which is still great!). This was a 7 yr old bottle (1997), so 9 or 10 yr old beer, essentially. The Shelton Bro import city was Durham, NC, which must have been right before Miami, and MA now. Sour and perfectly smooth on the tongue, the fruit here is nearly completely gone, as a miss in blind tasting confirmed. Wet wood, not the tinder dry balsa. Delicious.