Cantillon Zwanze 2008

Formerly brewed at Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

75 cL bottle at Chez Moeder Lambic. Pours cloudy dark golden orange with a small white head. Sharp acidi fruity nose with a distinct dry barnyard base. Smooth rubarb fruity flavoured. Velvet on the tongue and tastebuds. Light citrusy touch into the finish. Smooth lingering fruity flavoured.

Bottle 75cl. @ 18th Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation, Buggenhout, Belgium.
[ As My Rating #10000 on Ratebeer ].
Clear medium to dark yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is rhubarb. leather, wood, hay, barnyard, yeasty. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and acidic with a average to long duration, dry. Very eacy and good balancede. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090530]

Hazy tan. Pedio comes first on the nose, then wood. Assertive palate starts dry but picks up sweetness as it goes. Slight hint of fruitiness but the rhubarb is tough to find. Dry finish with a light vinous character. Simple and approachable, not my favourite of theirs.

Clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma had lemons, barnyard and rhubarb. Sour flavour with barnyard, wood, leather and rhubarb. Finished sour. Much like a Gueuze really.

A Sim rate. Bottle at the WOSF.
Smells like hay and true barnyardiness. It’s a delightful version of ‘This APE needs a bath!’ The rhubarb comes in very faintly. Definite guezuey tartness but not as rhubarb as I expected. It’s tart but sweet. Dry finish with more rhubarb that sticks to the back of your throat.

(750ml bottle, 2008 vintage, courtesy of MesandSim) Pours a lightly cloudy yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of pine, grass, rhubarb, grapefruit, barnyard, and earth. Flavor of grapefruit, rhubarb, vinegar, and lemon with a dry finish.

Small, but resistant head, even little rings of lace; fully hazy orange-green beer. Very malty smell for a lambic, and - no mistake possible - rhubarb nose, like freshly made rhubarbjam. Nice soft lambicflavours, even some sweetness, and tantalizing glimpses of horse blanket, rhubarb, garden herbs, preserved ginger and Szechuan pepper. Very dry finish, just great. Medium bodied, slick. Perfect balance. Jean is progressing with light-year strides. This is no "Zwanze" at all!

Bottle@WSF09. Aroma of leather and sulphur. Hazy, yellow colour, white head, fair lace. Sweet, sourish, hint of vinegar, leather, light fruity, oak. Sourish dry mouth feel.