 BückDich (4857), McCall, Idaho, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 22, 2005 2000 Bottle sampled @ RBSG 05’ (Montréal) Grand Tasting
Hazy blonde, white head, light lacing. Nose of rich vinous, peppery and lightly funky gueuze goodness. The flavor is rich, tart, but not overly so. A good balance with a refreshing finish. Good.
IPFreely (1470), Lewiston, New York, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 20, 2005 2000 bottle from mds at RBSG. Maybe I shouldn’t have had the FouFoune right before this one. The FouFoune was so sour that it made this seem tame. However, still a very nice gueuze with moderate acidity, plenty of barnyard character and pretty citrusy. Quite refreshing, nice dry finish. Cantillon needs to relocate to my back yard.
tiggmtl (4311), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 19, 2005 Sweet malts cleverly balanced with phenolic notes of rubber, horse blanket and sweat with some citrus-grapefruit tones. Clear bright gold with low but lasting white head that laces well. Barnyard leather and sour tart fruits on the tongue. Puckering tartness. Medium-light body with effervescent soft carbonation. Bottle (2000 vintage) sampled at RBSG’05.
SpringsLicker (2043), Tennessee, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jul 16, 2005 RBSG 2000 Vintage
I’m still not the biggest fan of the Lambics and other sours but I continue to sample as it has gotten better with me.
Average sized head on a medium yellow beer.
This has a funky, plastic, sweaty leather aroma.
Heavy acidic flavor. Still a taste I have yet to fully aquire.
asheft (1438), Marburg, Germany
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 14, 2005 [bottle at RBSG]
Yellowy copper and hazy with a nice, multilayered white flanel blanket. The flanel blanket apparently is a horseblanket, but the good kind. The kind that has been rolled around in lemons and malted barley. Dry and sour flavour with less horseblanket than aroma--sort of plain. Light body with lots of carbonation and very refreshing. I just found this one kind of boring.
mds (2112), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 14, 2005 bottle. 2000 vintage. clear golden body with a small white head. complex aroma - barnyard, funk, and eye watering tartness. perhaps this isn’t as over-the-top tart as some other Cantillon offerings but I feel that the mild subtlety works very well. light citrus notes. very dry. mouthfeel is phenomenal. cherish it.
Hildigöltur (5109), København, Denmark
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jul 14, 2005 Bottled. Hazy orange coloured. Aroma of wood and horseblanket. Flavour of grapefruit and loads of other stuff. Very complex. Slightly less sour than the regular gueuze. A beer made for aging many years.
Goldorak (439), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 13, 2005 RBSG2005, 2000 vintage
Not as peachy as most of Mr.Van Roy’s Beers, this one is a little more like opalescent apple juice, the real stuff you can buy at the farmer’s market. A ring of ephemerous lace on top.
That unmistakable Cantillon aroma, it smells just like at the brewery...Dank attic with cobwebs, a horse blanket, a wet cat, and this acidic twang that would normally repel the average Beer drinker but that somehow strikes a note with me. Sour and crisp, huge astringency, probably moreso than other offerings from this brewery. However the gains in asperity and aftertaste are at the expense of complexity of flavor. Still an excellent Gueuze that I’d be curious to try again in a few years.
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