Cantillon Groseille à Maquereau

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Bottled at RBESG - thanks to Patrick? for bringing it. A hazy orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet and acidic with notes of gooseberries and a bit a lactic acid and cork. The flavor is acidic with strong notes of gooseberries as well as notes of wood, leading to a dry and acidic finish. The acidity prickles the palate.

Bottled at RBESG ’07 Hazy golden. Barnyardy aroma with a light touch of those gooseberries. Dry and soft with some barnyard, The gooseberries has made it sweeter than the regular Cantillons. Juicy and very pleasant. Intense but not the most complex or spectacular offering for being Cantillon. (Still it’s 4.3!!)

Bottle (2003). Hazy orange brown colour, mediumsized white head. Cantillonish sourness with some other berries. Same in flavour. Good as all Cantillons, but felt quite easy to drink, just like the Red Currant one (Groseille). 7 3 7 3 13

Bottled@One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is big wooden sourness, and wood along with some really nice. Flavour is sour wood, some mild sweetness. Extreme dryness. 8 4 8 4 16.

Clear golden with a medium white head. Sour aroma with hay, wood, sour berries and leather. Flavour was very sour with gooseberries, barnyard, wood, leather, hay and mouthwatering lacto. Finished seriously sour.

Bottled, made from vintage 2003 lambic
Hazy amber pink color, small head. Sour, not very strong aroma with leather notes. Fruity , of course dry, flavor. Raw red gooseberries are there with earthy notes. Juicy and "easy to drink" - Cantillon.

A Mes rate: Bottle at RBESG. First off thanks to Tom for making sure I got to try some of this extremely rare beer. Typical Cantillon funky and sour aroma in which I could not really detect any extra fruit added. Citric and very bretty flavour which although smooth and drinkable lacks a little ot that special Cantillon punch. All the boxes are ticked I’m just not sure I like the fruit which reminded me of Ocean Spray fruit juice that Sim drinks. Still an absolute pleasure as all Jeans beers are.

Hazy golden, headless pour, rather dull-looking frankly. The aroma leads you to forgive the poor looks as this lady unveils her perfumey juicy plump berries aroma. Very attenuated. The usual Cantillon harsh lemon, intense barnyardy, mushroomy yeastiness is there in force. Cheesy, the fruit does not appear as much as most. Very tart, but diplomatic palate. Short dry finish, astringent and cider-like. Not my favourite Cantillon I must confess.

Botred huge thanks toes to both Per and Pat for getting this, a one off speciallity that i’ll probably never get again. Aroma is reekin of cantillon funk with incredible delicate gooseberry and other less sour tart berry flavours. Taste is similar great sour tartness, mindblowing like outstanding, oh yes oh yes.