Cantillon Groseille à Maquereau

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

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.

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!!)

375ml bottle brewed in 2003 from <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/finland/ target=blank>One Pint Pub in Helsinki, Finland. Golden-orange in colour, thin white head ring around the glass, some lace. The aroma was sweeter then the regular Groseille, some gooseberry tartness, light sourness and some barnyard. The flavour is tart and sour (albeit less then the regular Groseille), sweet gooseberries, cranberries, barnyard, acidic. Mildly dry mouthfeel, medium/light body, high carbonation. Finishes quite dry but seems to go away to quickly. Very refreshing. More accessible and much sweeter then the Groseille, but it all seems to work very well in this case.

2005 bottle at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Hazy amber with a small froth. Delicious citrus lambik aroma with hints of cheese. Intensely acidic flavours, no compromise, that hint of cheese does not mellow the impression. Greatness smacks.

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.

05 rom the First Annual Chicago Sour Tasting, thanks to kan.ottle had bled through a little. Standard Gueuze pour, slightly rosier in color. Nice sour aroma, dry, mildly fruity, musty, mild acetone and woodiness. Very nice aroma. Wow... burst of tartness. Some wild strawberry up front, maybe cranberry, classic Cantillon tartness, mild rubberiness on the finish. Really enjoying this one. Nice lingeringtannin bitterness on the finish. Tasty.

Thx Jeppe and Mikkel for pouring this hazy golden rarity with the tiny white head that looks like a million in my glass. Filling my nose with a very sweet combined with sour goosberrys and creamy mushy straws. The taste is a teleport to stables with wet cart-loads of straw spread on the floor, there is a light sweetness again combined with are fresh sourness and some spices and cream. The finish is long and sour-bitter. Lovely

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.