Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Unblended
Brussels, Belgium

Hazy gold color with just a tiny bit of lacing/head rimming the glass. The nose is very sour, with lemon, and barnyard. I can tell this is going to be acidic before I drink it. Still but with a little tingling on the palate, soft. Pleasant grapefruit sourness gives way to a fair bitterness with a little bit of the oak. Definitely older barrels. Good balance in this lambic, my first unblended. Its going very nicely with the smoked trout and cheese I’m eating :)

Very light, no lacing. Apricot aroma. Very smooth, but VERY tart. Orangey flavor without the citrus bite.

This is my least favorite beer.This is way too sour for me.Has hugh aroma of fruit.The sourness is overpowering.I rated this by knowing that is what the brewer is going for.

On bottle) Semidark, golden and crisp, almost glowing abricotcolor, beautifull. NO head, I´ll get back to that. Fenomonal sour and snappy aroma. Vanilla, gooseberries, unripe plum, something flowerish too. Without the carbonation, the grapefruitpeel-bitterness become very dominat and warmining. Also the oxidaded hops is more present withut the bobbles, like an underlying, dark note. The finish just creeps up on you, at first it´s full and full of ochards, then it becomeslike sor grapes, more citruspeel and a lash of cassisleaves ends it all. BUT. The total lack of carbonation realy turned me off, something fundamental was missing in a big way. Beer has many values to me, the carbonation is a total trumph and the absense is a drag for me.

Peach-colored and cloudy-bodied, no head...aroma is very yeasty and puckeringly sour - no particular fruit presence. The flavor is also very, very tart: in my opinon, just mostly sour. I’m having a hard time placing any specific flavor with this one...I don’t know, maybe I just don’t get lambics.

Pours a flat, cloudy golden color - musty and almost "musky" aroma, along with white wine, wheat, aged cheese - the three years in oak have given an extreme woody flavor to the beer - light bodied - only moderate sourness - wheat flavors, white grapes - funky, cheese-like brett flavors near the finish - oak remains throughout - a little thin, but interesting.

Very lambic pungent aroma. Flat and pungent... a naked lambic. VERY interesting.

Great coloring of nice gold with some minimal white head. Good sour apple aroma, some pickle or other tart aromas. Excellent tartness, some cheese tasting at the start, ending in a clean apple leading again back to chedder. Very nice and smooth end, very little puckering in the mouth.