Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Unblended
Brussels, Belgium

2001 75 Cl bottle. Hazy golden with almost no head. Just a small white rim. Nice acidic sour aroma. Soft with low cabonation. Sour acidic taste with lasting sour dry aftertaste.

750ml. dated 8/22/06. pours clear orange with small bubbles around the rim. nose is real nice, sour and tart notes, white grape, very oaky, apricot, apples, and musty. flavor has an accessible sourness, tart, white grapes, lots of oak, mild acidity, actually very easy drinking and refreshing while still having that lambic charm and grace. this pours very close to still and would have improved with a more lively carbination. this could also use a longer palate. i’m really into this beer.

Thanks to BitchesBrew for sharing this one. No carbonation, clear golden-yellow color. Mouth-watering, funky, acidic, vinegar, woody aroma. Musty, woody, sour fruit (apple, cherry), a slight cheesy flavors. Mouthfeel was initially very smooth due to the lack of carbonation, but the finish was very dry due to the acidic nature of this brew. Overall this was not ridiculously sour, and was fairly easy to drink. Made my mouth water after each sip. Awesome stuff.

Its yellow alright but its laden with a thin finish, some grassiness, some sour fruit which to me is the highlight of a very fine beer. I can still feel the acidic quality in my mouth days after tasting it. Thank you Belgium Comes to Cooperstown 2005. Rerate on 11-30-08: I love that woodsy musty oak apple-laden tinge I detect and my rating stays the same!

Muddy Yellow/orange with good offwhite head. This is truly cantillon.. Sour, high acidity, yasty and crispy finish.. One of the better...

Solid stylistically and overall strong. A nice sour dough and yeast nose with a slightly cloudy and nearly still pour. Apples, lychee fruit and grapefruit followed by a sly and the family stone dose of funk. I approve.

Bottle shared at Sean and Ryan’s tasting in May. I’ve waited some time to try this one, since bottles are quite expensive. As an unblended lambic, appearances can be deceiving. Pours dead still, with a hazy straw yellow color that looks like apple juice. Awesome aroma and flavor however; very smooth tones of lemon peel, barnyard, oak wood and subtle transitions in the flavor towards a perfect amount of tartness and funk. Ultra-velvety palate and the lactic sour finish is spot-on. Really an impressive lambic.

Sample from a friend at Pizza Port bottle shop; Drank with Shawn and others. $15. A real treat. Low to no carbonation. I was reading this is the nature of a true lambic, as the aging and use of Brett yeasts super attenuate the beer, leaving no sugar. It is bottled this way. for Gueze, additional lambic is added with higher residual sugar, which ferments in the bottle to carbonate the Gueuze. Thus lambics: uncarbonated, and gueuzes are carbonated. Looks terrible: very light yellow and flat. I was surprized to find the lambic to have little sourness. Possibly the souring yeasts were added late, or just provided by the barrel/air after sacc yeasts ate most of the sugar. Very very easy to drink.