Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

I think im just not hardcore enough for this type of stuff yet, but anyway. Aroma is hardcore feety, soggy cardboard, funky lambic yeast, no rasberry yet. Taste is similar with a hardcore sour lemon funkiness domination, with a sweetish finish. Hardcore stuff, and well i thought i was hardcore but obviously not hardcore enough. RERATE: Same score, i think this is the weakest of the cantillon line up havaing had it a few times now. Still good enough to have a bottle of now and then.

2001 vintage, just like the picture.
Brownish and quite murky, like most Cantillons the head was lively at first but died off rapidly.
Crush some sour, unripe raspberries, stick that jam into a well used baseball glove and leave it between two bales of hay during a rainy October and that’s what this Beer smells like. I kid you not.
A bit more fruity than a kriek, but the difference is almost negligible. The acidity beats up your tongue and bullies your taste buds for it’s lunch money. Like the Parliament Funkadelic is jamming in my mouth!

2001 vintage
I realize people expect this beer to be venerated as a matter of axiom simply because it is one of the best examples of a narrowly appreciated style. The thinking goes, "if you don’t like sour lambics, don’t rate them." Sorry, I just can’t play along with that game any more than I would give a high rating to a certain brand of ketchup stout or a turnip wheat simply because it was the best known example of the style. A $28 bottle of beer had better taste like liquid orgasm. Instead it tasted like raspberry vinegar. You are welcome of course to take my review with a grain of salt, but I’m not going to celebrate a beer I find undrinkable just because it’s a prime example of an almost undrinkable beer style (though there a few sour ales I find quite enjoyable). I tried to give Cantillon one more chance. Never again. All you super-sour lambic fans are welcome to this stuff.

Bottled. 2000 vintage. Pours a nice brownish red colour with a tiny, diminishing head. Aroma is raspberryish with a barnyard undertone and some citric and corky notes. Very acidic and quite tart. Oak, raspberries, hay. The acidity made it hard to consume the whole bottle, as it burned it my throat and stomach. But apart from that, a wonderfully tart and fruity beer, which seems to have aged well. Huge thanks to bierkoning for providing me with this vintage.

Dark reddish appearance. No head. Raspberries are dominent in all aspects in this beer. Quite sour finish. Truly a nice refreshing brew.

750ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Bright red/pink. Fizzy dissipating pink head. Aroma of lemon, brett, barnyard, cheese and citric raspberry. Also a hint of cherry. Excellent lip pursing lemon sourness in the taste. Good long acidic finish.

2002 bottle: Cloudy luminescent red with a pink small head. Big sour funky aroma. Lots of rotting raspberrys. Sour intense flavour, loads of sweet raspberrys with a juicy acidic finish. Very refreshing, and wonderfully complex.

Vintage 2001: This is another one of those lambics where I have to admit, "I don’t get it." I’ve grown to enjoy the Limburger qualities of a good gueuze, but I don’t enjoy it when applied to fruit. It’s just not fun to me when the stale fruit aroma is "enhanced’ by that of sweaty gym socks. Sour and barnyard-ish, the fruit flavors come across as if they’ve already been eaten. Still, I will try this and re-rate it in the future as I try to broaden and develop my tastes.

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