Cantillon Goldackerl Gueuze

Shared with kkearn at Akkurat. As he noted, we were lucky enough to try this along side the Goldackerl wine. The beer poured a golden body with a slight haze. Nose was earthy with wood notes and a slight musty aroma as well. The taste was sharp, acid but there were also some smooth fruit, grape notes in the taste as well. You get some alcohol notes and there is a bit of a medicinal quality as well. Overall this is a very interesting beer.

Bottle @ Akkurat. Lots of stuff going on in the aroma. Funky apple and a certain tartness. The taste is very complex. Bourbon sweetness, the fruitiness of a cider and the vinous bitterness from grapes. Not as sour as many other Cantillon beers.

Shared a bottle at Akkurat together with finol and hirigalzkar. The color was gold-like, almost no head to talk about. The aroma was fantastic! Not too easy to describe. Vibes of wine, green apples, citrus, cellar. Taste was perhaps not quite as wonderful as the aroma but still very, very good! Not as sour as a regular Cantillon Gueuze, this was clearly a bit milder. My first spontaneous thought when I tasted the beer was that it tasted a little like a swimming pool. Somewhat bizarre, but so be it. Sweet tones. Citrus, apples, some wood also. Complex but still easy to drink. The body felt heavy compared to an ordinary Gueuze. Initially, I felt none of the alcohol, but then it did come with a pleasant warming effect. A great beer!

Bottle at Akkurat. Looks like apple juice with almost no head. Aroma of apples, root cellar and petrol. Sour, burbon and seaweed. Tastes a bit like a crossover between a beer, wine, cider and whiskey. Smoother and sweeter mouthfeel than expected.

75cL bottle, at Akkurat. 2005 vintage. Sampled alongside the Goldackerl wine used for the bottle fermentation
Pours golden-straw color with a modest sized white head. Aroma is very unique, with sweet white grape (similar to the wine aroma, but not as sweet), brett, melon grain, earth, and lemon. Green apple and perfume aromas are more evident as the beer warms. Flavor is a bit more acidic than the aroma suggests, with lemon, melon, earth, leather, pepper, and sweet white grape, and mild spice. Finish is a bit musty, with white wine notes and a fair amount of lactic acid. This wasn’t the typical Cantillon Lambic, but I enjoyed it immensely. It was interesting to try it alongside the wine; it maintained a fair amount of the wine character. Awesome stuff! Wine is syrupy and sweet. Retains some of the flavor.

Bottle 75cl. [ Vintage 2005 ].
Unclear light to medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is grape, citrus, barnyard, tart - sour, figs ! alcohol, chilli peppery. Flavor is moderate sweet, moderate to light heavy acetic and heavy grape shell sour with a long long duration, and a dry dry sour sour finish. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. It is burning on your lips - alcoholc or like chillip peppery. [250908]

Bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm
Hazy dark blond color; small ring of foam. The aroma is a perfect mix of aged Lambic and Sauternes-like wine; light rubber; it gets more winey and even cheesy if possible; and much later, light oxidized wine. Good body strength, almost round body, as far as possible for a Gueuze, woody astringency and tannins, medium sourness, an impression of grapefruit. Long citrusy sourness in the final, and increasing astringency. It takes time before feeling some alcohol warmth.

Cloudy golden with tiny white head. Sour aroma with deep berry and barnyardy notes. Sour flavour with sweet berries nd barnyard notes. Finishes sour.