Cantillon FouFoune

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Bottle @ Den Tatoverede Enke, Cph. The aroma is quite sweet yet very tart, notes of peaches, really dry. Hazy yellow body, with a small white head. Extreme sourness, followed by notes of grape fruit. Bone dry. Thanks to tbone_ for sharing this magnificent beer.

This one is quite sour. I like the combination of the exotic fruit at the sourness. Not artificial, as if Cantillon would ever be. The only good apricot beer I’ve tried.

Initially pours pretty clear out of the bottle but immediately turns very hazy and opaque straw yellow/light gold. Very minimal head and no lace. Aroma is very complex, yet it isnt all that inviting. Initially some fruit is noticed as you pop the cork, along with some woody notes, but when it is cool you can notice a lot of sour notes, mixing heavily with a lot of musty aromas as well as lots and lots of sulfur compounds. Some sulfur dioxide, and a bunch of different thiols I cant pinpoint. Some of the aromas are very similar to those found in a fermenting lager, or those that come from weihenstephan yeast with respect to the sulfur. As it warms more and more sour and musty barnyard smells come up along with a hint of fruit- apricot-peach like. Dear lord this is some sour stuff. First sip is like tasting a sour warhead- maybe even more sour. This is really mouthpuckering yet I cant seem to stop tasting it. Lots of sour notes up front with lactobacillus, then a bit of the fruit in the end. I expected a lot more fruit in this lambic- but only got a minimal amount. Obviously this is very dry due to its acidity. Not sure If I will be able to drink this whole bottle by myself, but it is so unique that Ill give it a try. I got really lucky with this bottle being that it only cost me $11 in brooklyn (obviously a mismarked bottle) instead of the usual $20-25 per bottle. Very good overall, but Ill take any of the Lou pepe’s anyday over this.

[PIBF ’04] Bottle. Cloudy pinkish in color. Very sour barn nose. Very sour apricot like flavor. (I know it is apricot but it is hard to find under all the horse blanket flavors).

Wow, Sourest lambic I’ve come across so far. Incredibly dry, acidic, lighter apricot. Very refreshing. Awesome stuff but this isn’t for newbies. The sourness will suck your lips down your throat if you’re not too careful.

Pours hazy golden color with no head. Aroma has a very strange sourness to it. Wohlfs brought up "perm solution" which I will have to agree with. Flavor is a very nice sour/tart balance with only a hint of apricot. Very nice brew if you can get past the aroma.

Murky, very cloudy yellow with a filmy white head. Weird, funky yeast aroma: lemon, custard, and other such things. Flavor is musty, texture is thick, with some yeast funk going on that is killer. Very musty, aged, lactic and of course sour. Another excellent Cantillon.

Pours a hazy blonde color with a ring of white lace. Acid, tart aroma of apricot, typical Cantillon wildness. Acid, tart and mouthpuckering flavor of apricot, again this reeks of Cantillon a lot, their wild yeast signature is there, there’s a good dose of funk and it’s also citric. The mouthfeel is dusty and dry. Great beer.