Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Unblended
Brussels, Belgium

Virtually no carbonation in this unblended lambic.Very acidic malt with big sour apple and grapefruit. nice clean bret finish.

[2005 bottle] Golden in color, with almost zero carbonation. Nearly-offensive aroma, musty fruit and acidic vomit (in a nice way). Incredibly complex flavors, very tart, dry fruit, wood. Very dry, puckering finish. Seems to work well with the lack of carbonation. Acidity is mild, compared to other blended Cantillon beers. Outstanding.

750 ml bottle, 2004 vintage, via rudolf. Pours a clear bright gold with a thin film and small ring of white foam. Completely still carbonation visually. Aroma is lightly tart with a powdery sugar overtone. Lots of cellar funkiness in the form of musty dampness and alot of oak/woody notes. Flavor is very funky with a light tartness, almost like a light cider vinegar. A very clean and distinct oak flavor. Very approachable and alot less tart and funky than I was expecting. Finish is dry and refreshing with lots of brett. Not really sure how to "score" the mouthfeel on this. Any other beer and this would be terrible, but if you try to rate to style I can only assume that this is perfect. Completely still and somewhat thin in texture. My first, and possibly my only, taste of an Unblended Lambic. I really enjoyed this alot, and didn’t and a bit of a problem downing the whole 750 by myself. Pretty awesome, I’d love the chance to try another example.

Wow! Totally tart up front, like a mix between granny smith and pickle, with a long, gratifying wood-leather aftertaste. Strange, and not totally fruity, but certainly awesome.

I didn’t ’get’ Cantillon until I got this. 750ml 2006 vintage uncorked by priapic cherub. Burnished gold with faint mist. You don’t need me to tell you it’s as fizzless as apple juice, but that it’s as solidly bodied is a surprise. Complex sweet aromas of honey, lemon, lime, apple juice, glowing fireside single malt mellowed in oak for…a couple of decades. Nothing especially barnyardy or acetic. Dustily clean, cleanly dusty. Some kind of antiseptic dentist’s waiting room note. Almost apple bubblegum fruitiness, considering. Overwhelmingly honey. That this is conjured from the use of water, wheat, barley, dried hops, oak, and (not so) randomly floating wild yeast is a miracle of brewing in itself. Brewers of foul allegedly honeyed confections take note. Piques with acidity, but isn’t ferocious. None of the heartburn tartness I was expecting. Not until the third glass, anyway. The years in wood and glass seems to have restored some of the mellow woodsy apple and lemon notes you might find in an unspicy dry witbier. Wheat and mildly puckering apple all the way. Honey and oak leaping out. Occasional swig of Brie creaminess, vanilla, peat. The mellowest, most complex, most delicious unblended lambic I’ve tasted. Could savour it geekishly or glug it by the pint. Astonishing and unprecedented. (4am election night toast in honour of Obama.)

750ml. I’ve been waiting for this one! 71 of 71!! Golden color. TBC says it smells like 1978 gas lines when he and his buddy made lemonade with real lemon + sugar. Prost! smells like an unflavored lambic, sour, tart, luscious. flavors are smooth. hroma of bandaids. Flavors are rather of tart malt.

750ml bottle of one surprising lambic that cost me $20. Bottled 09/05/2007. No head, and almost no bubbles. Still, orange, smells musty yet juicy. It tastes like so many different things, juice, apples, sour, must, basement, no wonder gueuze is so good. This lambic did not disappoint. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 03-15-2009 05:13:07

Pours out clear gold with no head. Smells funky, oaky and sweet. Taste is apple juice like. Funky yeast and notes of wood. Nice dry finish. Great old lambic taste. Tasty