Cantillon Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Unblended
Brussels, Belgium

First unblended lambic! This is the final style I need to try as listed on RateBeer, so I guess I’ll just stop drinking beer now. Just kidding, that will never happen. Bought it at the Cantillon Brewery in Brussels and shared it at a BeerAdvocate tasting. Brewed in 2006 and bottled in 2009. Clear golden color, mostly still, but some large bubbles form after an aggressive pour. Looks almost like a cask ale in a way. Some lacing is present as the beer is swirled around in the glass. Aroma is tart, funky, and bretty. Green apples and other light fruit notes as well as wood are noticeable. Flavor is bretty and woody with some funk. Some apple juice notes. Very tasty beer with a hint of sweetness to balance the sourness. The beer is pretty flat, as intended, and this works very well. Really don’t miss the carbonation on this one. Dry and sour on the palate with tartness lasting. Drinkability is high. I could down this much more easily than your typical sour beer.

2006, bottled in 2009 courtesy of ogivlado who brought it from Belgium and shared with me.
Poured a quite hazy orange-golden body with a tiny white head that went away immdediately. Subdued funky tart aroma, some sweet maltiness. The mouthfeel is remarkably soft at the beginning and cushions the acidic assault that comes just a little later, funky, ends spicy/peppery. I liked it, not the best Lambic I’ve had but certainly interesting.

Gold pour. No head. Funky and fruity aroma. Some lemon, dank basement and wet wood. This bottle was quite flat. Had a woody flavor with a little fruit and a lot of funk. My least favorite Cantillon to date.

75 cl Bottle. Pours a nice gold color with no head. Wet hay, apples, oak and lemony aroma. Calvados kind of flavor; apple and wood. Great balance, soft lambic.

Dark gold pour with zero head, and some suspended carbonation- really cool how slowly they rise to the surface. Aroma is incredibly funky, with tons of brett, along with notes of red wine vinegar, lemon zest, and some slight oak. Also some hay, and perhaps even a bit of spruce. Flavor starts slow, then wallops the tongue with brett, cider vinegar, acidic lemon and grapefruit, and a bit of barnyard. Palate is very low on carbonation, but crescendos into an aggressively acidic wash over the tongue. I really like this lambic.

Hazy yellow color with no head. Kind of flat. Sour aroma of vinegar, yeast, and oak. Flavor has yeast, oak, lemon, and oak. Tart and sour.

Bottled St Albans BF 09. Thanks to harrisoni for this. A golden coloured lambic with a super funky welcoming aroma . It is the type of smell that you can taste and it wafts you in. The taste is acidic and grapey. Good sourness yet never overtly challenging. A pretty easy drinking lambic.