Cantillon Kriekenlambik

Not much carbonation by the time I got this but I expected that so rating based on the fact that it was still quite good and enjoyable. An experience to me because it actually tasted different than a lot of other ones similar in style. Funky with cherry and a little wood. Some earthyness and more fruit with a little lingering odd flavor. Still good.

BCTC. Many thanks to the incredible generosity of the RB crowd. Red with ring. Funky barnyard hay cherry aroma. Funky cherry sweaty horseballs hay barnyard with dry finish. Ok, I was drunk by this time, but my notes say I really liked this.

Metalic cabage yeast and dark fruit nose , pool water. Tart and ripe lactic finish with a lingering juicyness. Looks like grape juice with a disipating effervesence.

Draft @ Monk’s as Cantillon Monks Café Cuvee Kriek - consumed immediately after a bottle of RR Supplication (batch 2) at Monks. This one was blood red (as best as I could tell at the back bar) with no head. Aroma was bold with some really nice sour cherries, funk, and wet barrel. Flavor is much more cherry dominant than any Cantillon I’ve had - lots of wood, dark/tart cherry, and smoke. Really good, but having the Supplication right before might have dampened my enthusiasm just a tad.

Draft at monks. Pours a bloodlust body with a thin pink lacing. Very dry tart cherries with very low acidity. Tart cherries lightly woody with some earth and cherry pits. Wow this is awesome!

Draft at Monks Cafe out of the beer engine. Pour was a nice ruby with very little head and aromas of musty, tart cherries. Flavor is more of the same, but has that strange Cantillon thinness in the mouthfeel. I could drink this every day.

Cask, at Monk’s Cafe. Pours hazy maroon, capped with a medium-sized pink head that fades gradually to a ring of bubbles. Aroma is predominantly black cherry, with notes of wet leather, vanilla, and fairly mild acidity. Flavor is also fruit forward, with wood, vanilla, tannins, earth, and leather complimenting the sour cherry. Acidity is only moderate. Incredibly drinkable and very tasty.

Notes amalgamated from a few samples. Deep cherry red colour with lots of haziness. The aroma is intensely fruity with loads of soft cherry aroma, light woodiness and a soft vineous tannic note as well. Kiss of almond/cherry pit on the nose as well. There is a kiss of vanilla and a faint acetone character that accentuates, rather than dominates the fruit. Soft funkiness on the back that picks up as you work your way through the glass. Earthy, sour and intensely funky, but the sourness is quite muted, especially for Cantillon. More lactic and soft than the typical citric Cantillon house character. Musty/musky flavour toward the back finishing with a shot of acid. This stuff is really complex and has a subtlety all it’s own. Definitely worth seeking out if you find yourself in Philly.