 PhillyBeer2112 (1861), Orange Park, Florida, USA
Jun 22, 2008
2002 bottle tasted 2008. Nice beer. Aroma previews the sourness with a distinct lemony grassiness, plus a very pleasing jasmine flower aroma. Really nice. Flavor begins with a hard acidity, but once you adapt it smooths out to a nice tartness plus a sweet white wine vinousness. Perhaps just a trace of leathery funk in the background, along with a floral note in the finish. Hazy golden, virtually no head, light carbonation.
harrisoni (5382), Ashford, Kent, England
Oct 11, 2008 Bottle at EBF 08. Thanks Jacob. Yes, it’s got a lot of acid, lots of white wine grape flavours. Some good grape/green apple. Not bad at all.
vyvvy (1756), Hazelwood, Missouri, USA
Oct 8, 2008 This beer is some kind of wonderful. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. the aroma is nicely sour, tart and grainy with white grapes, citric acid, wild yeast, grape sweetness and a grainy sour roughness. Medium / light body with some smoothness and graininess to the body and light sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with definite tartness, but it is offset to an extent by the sweetness from grapes. There is a heavy amount of funk and extra grainy for a Cantillon. The finish is tart, citric, powdery and floral. This is so delicious and one of the easiest drinking lambics out there. Wonderful stuff.
ross (1562), charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Oct 8, 2008 2003 Bottle. I have had this one for a long time and decided I would try to get the taste of that DIPA out of my mouth. Liquid was all around the cap and the cork was wet. Pops out and shows no sign of carbonation. Pours out a yellowish brown color with a white head that goes away really fast similar to champagne. Smell is tart, with some grape smells, and oak. Smells sort of like champagne only a little more tart. Taste is sour as fuck. Holy shit. Probably one of the more sour beers I have drank. Not in a vinegar way either. Once I got used to it, this beer was very refreshing. Easy to drink. A little bit of oak cuts through the mix. Pretty good lambic actually. The grape flavors (if there were any) have faded from the taste and remain only in the aroma.
grandridge (160), Port Clinton, Ohio, USA
Oct 4, 2008 Pours cloudy yellow in glass with a head that fizzles away. Aroma is tart with some stank of barnyard funk. Slight woody undertones in the aroma but not very noticable. Not as tart as I experienced from other Cantillon selections. Light on the palate very drinkable and refreshing. Can get the grapes in the finish. Finished clean without an overwhelming dryness, the tart flavor washes away making you want more. Well done.
lassem (134), Copenhagen, Denmark
Sep 30, 2008 Version from 2005. Pours a cloudy summer-grain-yellow with a light white head. The aroma is like a stack of wet hay and with sourly pomelos and vanilla. The palate is very smooth and with a taste of green unmature green grapes. - Theres no sharp bitterness but a bitterness nore in the sweet end. The finish is long and slow with a nice fading sourness with a sparklin palate.
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