Cantillon Lou Pepe Gueuze

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Brussels, Belgium

Bottle, 2005. Pours a hazy, straw-yellow color. Minimal, quickly dissipating head. Light vinegar scent, flavors of hay, hints of sweet apple cider, green apples and honey. Very tangy. This was REALLY good.

75cl bottle from Dranken Geers. 2005 on the label, bottled in 2007 according to the cork. Some pressure, but no real explosion when I opened it. Lmeony funky aroma fills the room. Pours with good carbonation. Slight haze on orange gold colour. Lasting thin white head. Yeasty funk on aroma. Some good lemony acidity, nice softness in mouth. Good rounded lemon/lime flavours. Good gueuze. A little bit of wood. Good lemon/acidity. Not over the top. Well balanced, in fact one of the better balanced cantillons. Lime/tangerine Robertson’s jelly like flavours, funk underpins the whole beer well. A classically good gueuze. Well rounded. Challenging in terms of flavour, yet easy drinking. Makes you want to taste and taste it.

Pours a nice hazy golden color with a fuzzy white head. Aroma of sour, funk, lemon, straw. Flavor is funky, sour, tart, asprin, hay, must. Not as sour as I expected, but really a enjoyable sour beer.

Aroma:good sour fruit aroma... Apperance:pour-orange,light white head... Flavor:sour fruit,tangerine,sweet....

Near the top of the Cantillon line, more full bodied than the classic gueuze, bigger head, good complexity.

Thanks to my bro for sharing this. Pours a clear straw gold color with thin bubbly head on it. Aroma is of sour fruit, wood notes, barnyard, and musty straw. Taste is sour fruit, tangy wheat, musty, straw, and wood notes. Good stuff but a tad harsh compared to other geuzues IMHO.

Thanks to TheCheeseMan for this! 2005 Bottle drunk via Lambic Flute. Pours a straw-golden color with a large soapy head that fades rather quickly. Aroma is divine - tart sour funk, hay, and maybe a bit of grape and pear. Taste is sour and tart, with a dry finish. In gueuze, I trust!

Was able to order a bottle of the 2005 vintage by special request from the private, off menu, stock of Brasserie Beck in Washington D.C. Wasn’t cheap but hell, it was my birthday. Corked wine bottle pours a translucent, hazy orange color that looks a bit like grapefruit juice with a cloudy, swirling white head. Aroma was amazing, slight, zesty citrus with grass, hay, tart fruits, pears, earthy, a little malty, meyer lemons, white grapes, with plenty of Brett coming through early and often. Flavor is similar, the wild yeast complexities come through nicely and the marriage of flavors is more reminiscent of a pricey bottle of wine rather than a pint of ale. Flavor has more of the grass and hay, more earth, lemons, grapefruits, spice, white pepper, white grapes, lemon-lime soda and sweet tarts. Soft, a little chalky, with some slightly zesty bitterness lasting in the mouth. Wish I had a case to age in my cellar because it’s clearly progressing well. I’m not a big sour/geuze fan but this was one of a kind.