Cantillon Loerik

Formerly brewed at Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

1998 Vintage cork, Dr. Bill estimated this was from the first bottling of this beer, early 2000s. Bottle @ Post Belgian Fest killer tasting dubbed Sea O’Floydster, with a load of cool people including Cquiroga, floydster, seaoflament and many others. This was epic. Pours gold with a tan head. Nose is crazy amazingly tart, supremely acidic and amazing. Taste is tart and acidic, funky and super dry sour, acidic and damn amazing!!

75 cL bottle, Lövenlund your a star and pain in the ... Thanks for this! Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Dry and slight fruity aroma. Wooden and brett aroma. Dry wooden, orange fruity and brett flavoured. Citric and wooden flavoured into the finish. Lovely dry and fruity smooth into the finish. Smooth wooden finish.

0.75 l bottle (vintage 1998) at Akkurat, Stockholm. Slightly hazy golden orange color. Tart and perfumed aroma with grapefruit and black currant. Dry grapefruity, lemony, black curranty and bready flavor. Softer mouthfeel and less acidity than in standard cantillon gueuze. Dry, but not in a typical hardcore Cantillon way. Excellent!

(Bottle 75 cl) Hazy amber golden with a small, off-white head. Soft and not overly sour aroma. Medium body with a low carbonation and an almost soft mouthfeel - not really typical for Cantillon! Plenty of horse blanket accents but surprisingly accessible for a Cantillon. 061008

25 oz bottle, bottled 1998, via hopdog. Pours a hazy orangish gold body with a small fizzy white head. Not really any visible carbonation, but you can tell from the pour that this is not completely still. Big funky cheesy and cobweb funkiness with hay and grassiness, pixie stick like sweetness, and a grapefruity tartness on the nose. Bracingly acidic at first, but as you drink you get accustomed to it letting the wonderful dusty cobweb cellar funkiness shine through. Little bit of cork, wood, and sour cheesey flavors. Bone dry on the finish. Tight puckering mouthfeel with very fine slightly prickly carbonation. Much more active than I was expecting. This was just great. 10 years old and still amazing.

Bottle 750ml. [ My Rating #5000 ]
Bottled in 1998. [ Courtesy of Hildigöltur (Jacob)]. Unclear medium orange color with a small to average, frothy almost creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy hoppy, grapefruit, citrus tart, moderate to light heavy yeasty, barnyard, sour, tart, woody. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, acidic and bitter with a long duration, and a dry dry finish. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat to soft. Wow, what a beer ! ;o)) (050908)

A huge thanks to badgerben for this. A cloudy orange color with a hugely sour aroma. Almost overwhelmingly sour, the body was still smooth.

Bottled@Akkurat. Orangeish golden colour with minor head. Aroma is acidic and sour wood with some mild notes of sour fruits. Flavour is dry acidic and sour with some mild yeast, wood and also mildly bluecheesy notes. Long sour wooden aftertaste. Really mouthdrying. Still a bit smoother than many other Cantillons.