Cantillon Gueuze (Classic/Organic/Bio)

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

First rqting
(375 ml bottle at The Rover, Göteborg) Bottled 2005.
Shady peach color, small white head. Sour acidic and cheese scent. Sour cheese and stable taste. A bit spritzy mouthfeel, low bitterness.
8/3/8/3/15=3.7

Second rating
(From bottle at the brewery)
On March 22, 2008
Shady golden color, small white head. Sour, stable, horse blanket, cheeze scent. Sour, metallic, lactic taste. Tart, unripe apples aftertaste. Spritzy mouthfeel, low bitterness.
9/4/8/4/17

Rerate
(37.5 cl bottle from Systembolaget)
On September 11, 2008
Bottled April 28, 2008
Shady golden color, whit ehead. Sour, acidic, stable scent. Acidic, grape, sour, funky taste. Lemon aftertaste. Mouthfpuckering dry and sour mouthfeel. Very low bitterness.
8/3/8/4/16=3.9

12.7 oz bottle / 2006 bottling. This may be the youngest lambic I’ve had. Pours orange with a generous white head. The aroma has enormous barnyard fund, sour mustiness, dull lemon, smooth woodiness and a weird earthiness that is unlike other earthy flavors I’ve encountered. Medium body with some semi-sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with alka-seltzer flavor, sharp citric presence, sour lactic, sharp clean spice, wild yeast, horseblanket and more - quite complex. The finish is very clean with mainly citric flavors. Very nice lambic. I may rerate this after I have the older 750 I have stored.

12.7oz bottle. Murky dirty golden hue. Got the funk from the pour. Total vineagar apply nose. Sour tart madness. Sour apples and lemony citrus. Fruit explosion. A whole lot going on. But well put together.Leaves a coating fuzzy sensation on the teeth. Complex and intense.

Date: 3/28/2007
Serving: Bottle shared by Puddintane.
Event: Columbus Wednesday night tasting.
Location: nolankowal’s place.

Tasting Notes
Aroma: Sour, acidic, and musty.
Appearance: Cloudy golden color with a large white head.
Flavor: Crisp, very acidic, and tart with some hints of oak and light fruits. The finish is very dry and sour. Similar to eating crabapples.
Palate: Light to medium-light body and generously carbonated.
Overall: Very good! I haven’t had too many Gueuzes before, but the style is growing on me with each one I taste...

Aroma of cheese and some funkiness. Aroma of some sweet and sourness. Flavor was pretty tart but not overly sour at all. Pretty good gueuze.

Hazy golden of color with a thin offwhite head. The aroma is sour with some okaed notes. An nice sour flavorwith the same oaked notes, some hints of horselanket.

A nice golden pour with minimal head. Sour nose. Taste was very sour. Had kind of an off taste too it though.

Pizza Port Belgian Beer Fest. Pour from a 750mL. Aroma of mellow birch skin tang. Woody and perfusive with barnyard. Deep gold cloud with white fringe. Flavor a lightly rubbery wheat oil in a sour field of oaken agricultural grasses. Very mellow, sublime and fruited. Horsey oak brings up the background with a mouthfrul of hay. Fragrant. Light honey esters. Finishes in a salty cherry pit cascade. Enjoyable for it is a lambic that speaks of the wheat in the beer and the base ingredients. Letting some of the base ingredients through isn’t something I usually gather from this style.