Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

Courtesy of Naka. Hazy orange body with no head and no carbonation. Incredibly funky smell with lemon and orange fruity notes mixed with extreme sour/brett smells. Also smells bready and slightly nutty. Super acidic, horse blanket taste with a puckering, lemony acidic finish. Amazing complexity, with subtleties and nuances revealed in each sip. Perfectly still in the mouth. A truly beautiful beer.

What an interesting beer, certainly like nothing I’ve had before. Pours a light orange or amber, obviously no head and completely still. Nose is muscat grapes, apples, noticeable yeast tones in barnyard, cob-webbed mustiness, and a bit of rubber. Taste is upfront citric sourness as well as some floral notes, some hay, tannic character, finishes with dusty, earthy hops and a lasting sourness. Finishes sour and dry. No carbonation, maintains a moderately full mouthfeel despite lack of carbonation. Pretty awesome and totally unique.

3/15/08 - Courtesy of Naka, shared with Naka and santoslhalper. Pours hazy orange with no carbonation whatsoever. Nose is sour and funky Brett, sour apple and sweet green grape. It’s pungent, stings the nostrils. Taste is sour and citric acid, lemon, orange, touch of apple. some sourdough bread-type-thing. So complex, I’m not sure if I’m ready for this. Just good stuff in small doses. Dry finish, champagne-esque. Good.

On tap at Ortinos Northside. Pours a mostly translucent golden with orange almost pinkish notes and a very small bubbly white head. Aroma of citrus, floral notes, barnyard, funky and tart with like acetic nots. Flavor was lightly tart and funky, some of the barnyard/horse blanket, dry and actually a little thin.

My first experience with unblended lambic. Pours a hazy orange peach color with no head at all. Has an aroma of rye, sauerkraut, and some other general funk. Wow is the taste sour. It has a really dry funky taste. My palate is too green to do the complexity justice. Has some acidic lemony citrus taste to it. Finishes like a flat champagne. My head is spinning try to describe this.

(75cl bottle, vintage 2002) Slightly hazy, pale golden colour without a head. Sour and apple fruity nose with woody barrel-like notes and traces of brett. Sour flavour, oxidative slightly wheaty taste, apple fruity with traces of horseblanket; bone-dry and sourish tart, lasting finish. Refreshing Lambic, that reminds me somewhat of the best applewines from the Hessian Wetterau (12.03.08).

2-24-08 bottle shared at tasting
Slightly cloudy yellow orange with NO head. Smell is strong, sour and funky! Very musky (like dirty socks and sweaty clothes musky). Sweet flavor. No carbonation at all - but I don’t know that I really miss it here. Still quite tart overall. I actaully started to enjoy the strange mouthfeel. Overall, not horrid

Golden-orange, apricot color with virtually no head or apparent carbonation. Sour barnyard smell with sweet fruity tartness. Tart, musty barnyard with sour lactic acid impression, not much fruit. Non-carbonation works surprisingly well for this sour, interesting change from the aggressive foaming of say, a geuze with similar flavors.