Cantillon 50ºN-4ºE

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

On tap at Portland International Beerfest 2008--Poured a hazy golden body with a nice fluffy white head. Typical sour, tart, sharp Cantillon nose. Not much evidence of cognac. Lemon, orangepeel, wooden, acidic, signature Cantillon character. Another hit! Worth 6 tickets!

Thanks Dave. The beer pours to a very hazy orange straw body with a bubbly thin white head. The aroma is tart vinegar and sour cognac barrels. Acidic grapes. The palate is really bitter and acidic. Unexpected bitterness. The flavor is sour leathers and bitter grassy hops with a strong acidic white grape. Oaken laden malts. Some apples. Sweet sugary back but dry up front.

PIB 2008. This was what I hoped it would be, another well built cantillon beer without to much of the cognac taking over. I like the subtleness of the barrel. The beer pours orange with an off-white head. Dry tart and acidic, with a soft citrus and apple character, earthy finish, and soft oakiness to pull it all together.

750 ml cork and caged bottle shared with jimmack and joeec, thanks Jim. Poured your standard lambic-gueuze style, golden pour mostly flat and lifeless and wirh some vigorous pouring I was able to aliven a small whiteish head. Great aroma of green apples, funkiness, very faint smoke and some apple cider vinegar as well. I didn’t care for the body of this one as I found it very thin and flat with only a slight touch of carbonation. I’m sure that was the brewers intention for this style but still not my thing. Taste is sour and funky and I am able to detect a slight touch of cognac on the aftertaste but it is very faint but there. Interesting idea but the cognac aging only seemed to thin the body out and added no aroma and only the faintest flavor. For the money stick to St. Lamvinus.

Bottle thanks to Emanuele at Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà. Pours hazy golden orange with a medium white head, Aroma of tart apples and sweet malts. taste is veryy sour with strong wood and cognac notes. An excellent sour.

2007 Bottle. Some beer leaked around the cork and rusted the cap. Hazy orange body under a small foamy white head. Sweat, fermented apple, and tart acidic/lactic acid. The flavor trends towards the bitter/funky grapefruit rind end of the lambic spectrum. Notably bitter, perhaps the most "hoppy" of any gueuze I’ve tried. Finishes with more bitter grapefruit. I don’t detect much in the way of cognac but this is still a pretty good gueuze.

750 via GAManiac. I’ve had one in the cellar for a while but thought tonight might be a nice night to break this out and chill out some with a yummy gueze. Pours a very nice orange with a 1 finger tan head. Nose is sour and tart with all kinds of Guezey funk. Right now its probably too cold but for the second pour i’m sure it’ll warm up well. Taste is sour and full of funk, definetly some citrus in here some lemon and other fruit. Tons of oak and the cognac is here too. I love this brewery and they never ever dissapoint.

Bottle @ the RBESG08 Grand Tasting.
[thank you, KimJohansen]
[my 3300th rating]
Pours hazy yellow with a small, staying, white, creamy head. Impressive looks for a lambic. Aroma is tart, some oak, lemons, citric acid, overripe apples. Medium carbonation, easily drinkable. Pleasant flavour, good tartness, citric, apples, oak and subdued notes of caramel. Wonderful.