Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Unblended
Brussels, Belgium

2004 bottle. Low carbonation. Nose of apple cider, barnyard and honey. Not as acidic as expected (for Cantillon standards), yet tart and mouth-watering, woody and dry. The mouthfeel is mellow and smooth. The finale has great finesse. Much more interesting than a 2004 bottle tasted in 2006... Very statisfying. Pairs very well with sushis.

Aroma of wet wool blanket brett, onion peels, sour oranges, vinegar, and acidity. Taste is lemon, sour oranges, high acidity, barnyardy/brett, and onion. Tart finish, but a surprisingly light finish which seems balanced?

Flat entry. I simply didn’t expect this, nor did I care, if this lambic had a head or not. Nice, light orange color. Dry, deep woody notes in the nose with notes of grapefruit, lemon, white grapes, green apple, leather and flei infested horse hair. Much more approchable than I was expecting. Flavor begins with deep wine-like tannins and damp wood. Next comes the superbly woven fruit notes, mainly grapefruit, green apple and orange. The finish is dry, metallic and very acidic. More lingering and sour deep wet wood notes linger on. This lambic is everything and more of what it is trying to be. The gods blessed this barrel well. Phenomenal.

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.

Sampled at the RBSG 07 Grand Tasting. Excellent sour nose on this beer. with a wild field character. Very sour body with an earthy tinge.

On Tap at Max’s Belgian Festival in Baltimore. What a great lambic. Pours a muddy yellow color with almost no head. Aroma is that perfect sour beer stank with some hosre blanket action going on. Flavor is a wonderful mouth puckering sour citrus fruit tart hot mess. . . but in a very good way. Some good oak tannin flavor hiding in the background too. This was a nice beer.

Thanks to Cmillward for the taste! Pours a cloudy golden color. Aroma is strong funk with apples, pears and lemon rind. Flavors are more funk and sour fruits with some vanilla and honey. Very good.

Golden orange colour, no head. Acidic aroma. Extremely sour taste: you can almost feel your teeth dissolving away. On the more delightful side of the lambics.