Cantillon Blåbær Lambik

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Need re-rate this beer is perfect, a 5 indeed. 3rd Beer of the Beer Spot Tasting Sunday March 30th, 2008. Bottle via trade with Marilibusi, 2007 vintage, I brought this one. This was a fun beer to open, we popped the cap, and the cork rose on its own and flew up high, we didn’t loose a drop but it was a fun momentous opening. Pour red/pink with an off white head. Nose is sweet adn blueberry and super duper tart and really nice. Taste is full of blueberry, acidic and pucker. The taste is pure pure blueberry no fucking around like most blueberry beers. Taste is truly amazing, sweet blueberries, by far the best blueberry beer ever and probably my favorite lambic fruit I’ve ever had.

Many thanks to Yesper for hooking me up with an ’07 vintage in our trade. A wonderful sour nose with plenty going on. Barnyard funk, faint blueberries, and a grassy character. Cloudy red color with plenty of head. Faint blueberry in an intensely sour body. More of that barnyard funk is present too. A smooth finish for something so tart. Second bottle. ’07 vintage. This continues to be my perfect fruit lambic. Well rounded and amazingly tart lambic body with plenty of blueberry flavor. Tastes not only of blueberry, but also possesses a vegetal flavor like they tossed the entire plant in there. Fantastic. 2009 Vintage, batch 4. A much darker color than my last two bottles, with a bit more head than usual. The head lasted a good 25 minutes, as some moron set off the fire alarmsI Very very tart with a strong blueberry flavor.

Colore rosa porpora come il succo di ciliegie non filtrato,schiuma rosea non spessa ma frizzante.Aroma di frutti di bosco, mirtilli maturi con sentori di ciliegia e mora. Il sapore è perfetto,ciliegie,limone che da acidità ricca di frutta. Perfettamente secco.Eccellente

A rarity shared by the always generous Brewfiend. How the heck did you get this Brad? It pours a dark red color. Aroma of light fruit, yeast, and barnyard with some mold. Flavor combines all of those qualities with an incredible sour flavor. Very smooth. Some carbonation. Truly a work of art and I feel lucky to try it.

Thanks Jason for sharing this 2005 vintage. The beer pours to a glowing peachy amber body with a thin white head. The aroma is super complex. Gueuze-laden Cantillon with tons of barnyard and funky cheese feet and blueberries. The flavor is amazing. Tart and funky sour fruits, feet, barnyards, and sourness. Amazing! So very complex. Super tart palate with a perfect puckering sourness. A near perfect delight!!!!!

In short: Fabulous intense and original fruit lambic (blueberries). Second only to the 3 Fonteinen Framboss.
How: Box-sent-by-Rastacouere-from-Europe tasting session
The look: Very cloudy dark-cherry body topped by a small dark-pink head.
In long: From the nose you wouldn’t think that this is just a blueberry lambic. Fruit salad, blackberries, raspberries, grapes and blueberries meet the typical Cantillon lambic to create an intense and complex sharp fruity acidic aroma. Taste is like the nose and then some. Intensity-wise the fruits are nose to nose with the Cantillon lambic which is quite a exploit in itself. Cake maltiness is unexpected and very pleasant from a fruit Cantillon. Even though the beer was very sharp and dry I had all along an impression of dessert ice-cream. I originally had it at 4.9 as my ultimate fruit-lambic but after drinking the 3 Fonteinen Framboos again I bumped it down to 4.8 as my #2 fruit-lambic. Part of the beers sent home by rastacouere while touring Europe. It’s not that I don’t like you David but by sending home beers like that I’m not looking forward to your return.

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.

Deep red-purple in colour with a long lasting thin pink coloured head, excellent lacing. The aroma is very sour, quite tart, the blueberries work very well, light sweetness comes and goes, lightly acidic. The flavour is sharp, acidic and dry, good blueberry sweetness, grape skins, excellent Cantillon funk. Sweet, tart and dry mouthfeel, medium body, medium/high carbonation. Finishes long, dry, tart and juicy.

Wow, fantastic stuff. Unbelievable aroma thats right up there with Soleil de Minuit and Tyrnilambic. I see this aging very, very well as the blueberry flavour is quite strong. Nice job Jeppe, you have made lambic history.

750ml bottle obtained in a trade with footbalm, thanks Eric.
Opened on March 29, 2008.
Vintage 2007, bottled October 13, 2006.