Cantillon Groseille

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

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 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.

375ml bottle brewed in 2002 from <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/finland/ target=blank>One Pint Pub in Helsinki, Finland. Golden hay in colour, thin white head ring around the glass, very light wispy lace. The aroma has lots of redcurrents and cranberries, sharp old cheese, musty, some yeast and barnyard, lightly acidic. The flavour of cranberries, green apples, old white cheddar cheese, musty, some yeast, lots of tart redcurrents. Intensely dry puckering mouthfeel, light body, high carbonation. Finishes long, sour and dry, soft sourness. Extremely refreshing. All of the flavours blend together to create a masterpiece.

375mL bottle brewed in 2002 and consumed on 12/22/2005 among the very enjoyable company of Rastacouere and Siroy. Thanks to Juha (bogdi1) for his always generous trades and this most rare of treats.
Typical cantillon gueuze pour with some age on it yields a hazy goldenrod and straw colored yellow, with perhaps a light tint of copper? Head is white and moderate to full at first, but quickly begins its descent to a light covering and eventually a ring, while light lacing is left behind. The aroma begins sulphury, quite barnyardy, but yet light and soothing with an old, musty, bretty perfuminess to it, coupled with the usual sun-baked leather tannins and sour lacto/pedio suggestions. The redcurrant, not surprisingly, does not emerge, (or at least, I can not detect it, in the nose). Taking my first sip, I find myself (at first) disappointed that I can find the red currant neither in the flavor. Just a strong dose of your typical Cantillon gueuze flavors, farmy, funky, quite cheesy and moderately acidic, wtih a quenching sourness. BUT, to my extreme delight, the red currant readily makes its way out on the finish, growing very tart, as if chewing on the very skins of the red currants. Ever so subtley done, almost so well done, that you wonder if Mr. Van Roy could have possibly controlled it this well to his liking (implying that much of it was luck). Whatever the case, you get a brilliantly aged, fully yeasty and complex cantillon gueuze up front, followed by a tart, fruity, crisp and lightly acidic red currant flavor that is elegant and understated. The lambic is of course fully attenuated, while the carbonation firm and tight, yet softened by time somewhat, so as to offer a gentleness that a younger gueuze would not have. Very noble and wise old lambic.

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.

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 @ OPP) orange. very sour and fruity on nose. taste also. this has very unique flavour, one of the best from cantillon!

Botled at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Pale orange, almost clear. Lemony acidic nose. The fresh red currant flavour adds just a whiff of flavour to te trademark lemony Cantillon acidic lambic. Citric acidity is the dominant feature. The lovely intense complexity of the lambic is dominant, the red currant is a compiment.