Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

750 ml. green champagne style bottle. Crowned & corked, with black foil overlay. 2006 on cork. Poured out a wildflower honey color, with no carbonation. Completely still. Aromas are of horse blanket, merlot barrels, slightly acidic also. Flavors are of Brettanomyces, Belgian funk, musty barn. Stinky cheese in the flavors as well. OK body, but needs some carbonation to bring out all the true flavors.

Light orange infused with some yellow with a white soft foam head. Sour aroma with a bit of fruit. Some wild funky yeast notes.

This unblended lambic pours a hazy orange yellow color form a 750ml bottle. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is sour, tart, yeasty and fruity. A medium bodied lambic. Tart, citrusy and lemmonish. Touch of barnyard and funk. Some hay and still a lot of citrus. The carbonation is greatly subdued. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is very crisp and extremely dry. Aftertaste is slightly bitter

Bottle, 75 cl. Hazy orange golden, no head. Fruity cidery aroma with green apples and grapefruit, and some faint wooden notes. Light to medium bodied, almost no carbonation. Very dry and sour flavour that lingers. Not the harsh scidity that may be found in some Cantillons. Surprisingly plain, it will hopefully gain some complexity in my cellar.

750 ml bottle. A cloudydark golden beer with no head. The aroma is very yeasty, with underlying maltiness and notes of lemon, grapefruit, wood, earth, maybe mushrooms. Intense nose. Normal sweetness in the flavour, with much acidity (though not the most acidic Cantillon). Some white wine characteristics, woody and earthy. Medium body, almost no carbonation, dry long finish with light bitterness. Complex and with very good aroma and flavour, but something keeps it to be a real amazing beer for my palate, maybe the lacking carbonation or the lighter Cantillon body I have found. However very worthy.

Sampled on Tap at Monk’s Cafe’ in Philadelphia. Aroma was predominatly sour with a spicy, sweaty character. This pour was pretty much still thus there was no head and the aormatics did not belie the flavor. Flavor was dominated by by the brett character with a earthiness and backed by a subtle light maltiness midpalate. Sour acidic finish sets in and finish is very wine-like. Mouthfeel is a mix of slightly slick residual sugar and drying acidity. Wheat presence not necessarily noted but probably added a bit of richness. Carbonation would make the beer a bit more excting on the palate. Overall, a very sour, lambic beer that could have been better and a bit richer, but still worth the sample, especially on draft!

Bottle - cork says 2005. First glass pours clear amber with exactly no head and next to no carbonation. Looks like light apple juice. Subsequent pours are less clear due to yeast. There’s a big aroma of funky yeasty barnyardiness from over a foot away - exhilirating. There’s also a fragrant perfume and a bit of wheaty zest in the nose. The body is very round and wet. Not sweet at all. Quite tart, musty, elegant, bright. These characteristics hold steady through a long finish that picks up a bit of oak. Unsurprisingly, the sourness intensifies throughout the bottle. The taste echoes about the mouth and throat. The beer is medium-to-light bodied and mellow with mineral traces and a drying finish. Would be wonderful with seafood or breakfast if it weren’t so good by itself.

Bottle thanks to puzzl. Surprisingly sweet. Really strong fresh pineapple and grapefruit. Finishes dry, but not as dry as I expect for the style. Sourness is far from overwhelming. Some woody notes. Lacking some complexity. No carbonation at all. Medium body. Pretty good beer, but not killer or anything.