Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Sampled at the O-Town throwdown. Poured almost like pinkish red wine with thin white head. The aroma is big with tart berries, plan old tartness and some sourness. The flavor start off tart berry fruitiness followed by some tartness and then sour funkiness. Nice mixture.

Pours a very cloudy red, with a very light bubbly white head. Very sour raspberry flavor. I get a little more of the fruit in the cantillon then I do in most other of their fruit lambics. Still the acidity are extremely overpowering of the fruit flavors like usual. Still, thats what makes this such a great brewery. They are consistent and excellent at what they do.

vintage 2000. Pungent sour aroma. Pours bright pink. Sour flavor with strawberry, raspberry, with a dry finish. I prefer the Lou Pepe Kriek

on tap at the maproom, pours dense pinkish red with pink head. nose is full of wonderfully sweet raspberries. flavor is really nice but sweet for cantillon, sweet raspberries that finish with a welcoming tartness to it. easy to drink and slightly creamy. carbination is really lively. this is really fun to drink and i could probably drink a lot of it, but it just isn’t as sour and complex as most cantillon’s i’ve tried.

2003 bottle, Purchased for a hefty sum at O’Brien’s and taken to go to a friend’s BDay Party. The brew pours pink with a lighter pink frothy head. The aroma has light rasberries in it. The taste is sweet and tart and very sour. The flavor is tart first and then the rasberry flavor kicks in. I don’t think I like this as much as the Lou Pepe Kriek, but it is certainly good and mouth puckering.

Bottle. Nicely acidic aroma. Hazy red colour, not as deep as the kriek. Nicely refreshing acidic flavour, rounded off by a hint of fruit. Cleans your mouth efficiently after a day’s beer drinking.

Bottle from Santa. Thanks. Pours out a pink color with a white head (after pouring rather quickly) but the head disappears almost instantly. Somewhat cloudy looking and produces no lacing at all. Smell is full of raspberries and some sweetness. Full of oak, wood, musty, typical lambic smell. Taste is pretty sour with some good hints of raspberry. First sampling had the bottle way too cold. After letting it sit about 30 minutes and coming back to it, the beer opened up quite a bit. Good lambic, probably not worth the 25+ price tag that comes with it, but its still good. Thanks Santa.

Tap at the HDG. Poured into a tulip glass (the kind meant for girlie drinks with small umbrellas). Color is rose pink, with orange and copper aspects. Aroma is extremely sour, tart, and acidic, more so than any bottle I have had. Tickles the nostrils. If you can keep your nose in the glass long enough there is a raspberry aroma with a sweetness that resembles wild strawberries. Taste is a bit different, the "strawberry" sweetness is gone, replaced with just an extreme raspberry tartness. Now it tickles the tonsils. Leaves the signature acidic Cantillon aftertaste.

The fun part was I got to take sips of this in between sips of the Southampton Imperial Stout. I was tempted to blend.