Cantillon Groseille

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Pale red coloured. Fresh aroma of berries and lambic. Sour and dry flavour with lots of red currant notes. The sourness is more towards a red currant berry sourness than a traditional lambic sourness. Very dry finish.

Sampled from bottle (pictured here on Ratebeer) at the brewery - thanks a lot to Jean Van Roy for pulling this rarity out!!!
Pours clear copper colored with a thin pinkish head. Tart aroma with hints of berries and a dry edge, rather mild but very fresh and inviting. Obvious redcurrant flavor, extremely sour (of course, this is Cantillon with sour berries...!!) and dry. Not very full bodied but very sharp with a touch of vinegar. Fresh, special, lovely!

Bottle in One Pint Pub, Helsinki. I thought nothing could top the Argousier... until this beauty was poured!!! A hazy pale red colour with a striking fruity nose along with lemony wood. The flavour continues the same with a rich fruitiness perfectly balancing the Cantillon dry citric style and a long, fruity, dry and very sour finish. Absolutely superb.

Beautiful rosy colour with a peach to light foxy shine; good pinkish fine head, fast receding. Delicate fruit nose, fresh fruit, tannins and inevitable (and welcome) horseblanket. Soft, sour taste with a very surprising flavour, reminiscent of (green) sweet pepper peel or sweet pepper mash (coulis de poivrons (verts)). Finishes typical redcurrant, which flavour gradually enforces itself finally. Very dry finish, getting ultra-dry at the end. Outspoken dry-out effect. Superb realisation, in the line of the Soleil de Minuit, and even more the Buckthorn lambic. Great one, Olli!

Bottle @ Helsinki Beer Festival, Helsinki Finland Backlog 1 April, 2005
Typical Cantillon aroma that doesn’t really give away its content. Housetaste appearant and the red currant taste slowly grows elegantly in your mouth to the finnish where it domitates grandiosly. This was a happy surprise and a very elegant Cantillon and might be the best one I’ve had. (I’ve had most of them, even though I haven’t rated them - yet)

Bottled @HBF2005, vintage 2002
Red hazy color, small white head. Very earthy, mouldy nose. Dry, delicious earthy red currant flavor. Very drinkable lambic, not too acidy or sour.

(Bottled in 2002, 0.375l, @HBF 2005) Orange color with a small head. Slightly sour aroma of mixed berries. Sour and dry, very natural flavor of red currant. Sour, dry - but not too much - palate with a sticky finish. A pleasantly natural, slightly less sour than usual, Cantillon. Practically it’s redcurrant juice.