Cantillon Blåbær Lambik

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

[Odense-tasting at Scheffel. Bottle from Christian.] Where are the blueberries, but it’s okay. Very great brew with notes of red look and fast pinky head, acidity, sourness, wood, oak, dry, refreshing. Had expected it in another way, but I cannot complain!

Thanks to Nick for this sample! 750ml. Bottle. 2007 vintage. Pours a purple/red color with a pinkish head that quickly dissipates. The aroma is subtle on the blueberries with more barnyard funk, wood, and citrus. Flavors of blueberries, raspberries, funky sour cherry in there as well. Nice balance between the sweet and sour. A well made beer.

Bottle, 2007. Nice fruit aroma. Red color with a nice thick pink head. Very nice fruit taste with light notes of blueberry. Very nice acidic sourness with notes of grape and lemon. Very nice and balanced palate. Very nice

(Much thanks to Brewfiend for sharing this) Pours red with a light red head that lingers. A very funky aroma, with some musty hay and a nice blueberry undertone. Flavor was quite tart and oaky with just a faint hint of blueberry present, most noticeable on the finish. The finish was dry as well, and this was an amazing beer.

(750ml bottle, 2007 vintage) Pours a cloudy magenta body with a large pinkish purple head that quickly dissipates. Aroma of subtle blueberries, barnyard funkiness, citric, light wood, and earthy characteristics. Flavor of blueberries, raspberries, tart, earthiness, and faint black cherry as it warms. An absolutely incredible creation!

Bottle purchased at Olbultikken.

This is one both capped and corked; as I remove the cap the cork explodes off the ceiling with a violence the likes of which I’ve never seen, leaving a purple blueberry stain across the elegantly finished 16-foot ceiling of my hotel room. Yet the beer doesn’t gush out; rather it waits, restrained, for my pour and then sparkles vigorously in the glass, a not-even-so-large pink head atop a gorgeous, murky, hazy rose-purple like unfiltered cherry juice.

Even as I pour I’m getting a vast rush of berries in the air. It’s glorious, and as I dive my nose into the glass that thick Cantillon funk comes out, for all the world like horse-stable, that lovely woody vinegar, this time accented with berries, overripe blueberries with cherry and blackberry tones.

The flavor is perfect. Glorious sour cherries atop that unmistakable Cantillon musk. Woody lemon acidity cut by luscious fruit. Perfectly dry. I try MartinT’s pairing, or the closest I can muster in my hotel room: a 70% Valrhona chocolate bar and it’s divine. The chocolate is merely fine, but the sip of lambic afterward with the chocolate oils still on my palate....perfection.

The beer sparkles away on my tongue. This is one of the epicurean highlights of my life experience, I’m in love but the odds are I’ll never see it again, given its rarity. It’s a one-night-stand and that’s breaking my heart. All I can do is savor every last drop of the experience.

Bottle. Body-red like dark red cranberry juice, hazy, foamy, maroon head like red whip cream/butter foam or yogurt pink. Nose-dusty, berry, medium to high sour, low funk, dry on the back end, kind of astringent, like rubbing alcohol, blueberries come out on the back end, light soapiness, light yeast, low sweetens, peppery, berries come out as it warms., Very sold and unique.

Huge thanks to Kramer for sharing this bad boy. 2007 vintage 750 ml bottle. Pours a brilliant bright violet, almost has purple hints and bright pink hints at the same time- slightly hazy and mukry with a nice carbonaiton, fizzy head goes to nothing after a short while. Aroma is very tart, but not the usual citrusy or lacto tartness. Has a wierd funk, horsey, farmhouse, and a good amount of plasticy off phenols which were intriguing. Plastic pool toy with more red fruit tartaric acid quality- hints of blueberry but nothing like any other blueberry beer. More tart citric, tartaric/malic and every kind of acid flavor- low on acedic. More plastics and phenols flavrs, very tart, harsh and astringent finish with still a bit of sweetness left. This will probably age pretty well and mellow out a bit. Cool beer.