Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Cherry red...small red head. Big sour raspberry aroma and flavor - puckering sour with flavors of sour cherry candy. Almost no malt or hop flavors. Tart, tasty, brett sour, funky finish...like a cherry tart roller coaster!

pours a dull and light burnt orange color with little head. aroma is of over ripe berries, wet mold, and ketchup. flavor is tart, with light citrus, dust, and slight raspberries at the end. while the flavors are tart and berry-ish, I can not stop smelling and tasting breakfast potatoes and ketchup. probably would be good for a weekend brunch.

brown appearance with just a hint of red. very little carbonation and almost no head. flavor. very tart and near acidic mouth feel with just a hint of raspberry sweetness towards the end. overall the gueze taste dominates this beer and i am too unfamaliar with the style to really distinguish between examples

2006 bottling. Pours a body that has the tint of a blush wine. Light pink meringue head. Aroma of musty oak, wet sheep, tart berry, and acidic lambicness. Light and airy in the mouth with pervasive sourness. Taste is dark musty basement, cobwebs, lemon juice, and tart raspberry. Dry and oaky notes everywhere. A topnotch lambic.

Pours an opaque, strawberry-banana red with a very light pink head of 3 fingers. The head retracts with almost cola-like quickness. Smells a bit like those huge orange vitamin C pills mixed with raspberry vinaigrette. Really sour and striking. Outrageously tart. Acidic and sour but not really harsh. A bit of citrus and a bit of raspberry underpin the tartness. Sweetens a bit with warmth. Bubbly and smooth, and drier than hell. Very well attenuated. I have to give this a bit of a knock here, it’s just so puckering and sour that it’s not high on the drinkability scale like, for example, the schaerbeekse kriek. Still a great beer and another triumph by Cantillon.

Bottled Feb ’07. Bit of a Cantillon novice, and I’ve found the beers I’ve tried to date one-dimensional, aggressive, hydochloric, and unenjoyable. This is something else. Pours clear pale red beneath a collar of froth that vanishes instantly. Saliva-making aroma of lambic sherbet, unspecified fruit, St. Agur, lemon juice, poorly ventilated cellar, mouldering barrel. The acid is there, but not at the expense of everything else, and even allows a little trickle of whole fruit raspberry tartness to shine through. To me that enhances and in no way detracts from its lambic character. Great beer to end (or begin) the night on if you want something cuttingly fruity and packed with flavour that’s not going to take your head off.

I sure wish I could like this style, but alas, I am just not a fan...Pour was very pretty. Hazy light ruby color. Smell was sweet raspberry. Taste was just too tart and sour. Unrippened berries chased with vinegar. Did not like. Someday maybe...Today is not the day.

Thin hazy peach towards pink look with a small white head. Aroma is dominated by sour fermentation, with earthy notes and only minor fruit notes. Flavor is overall just sour aswell, a little bit of rasberry in the aftertaste thats it. Never got to check the production date, but must have been a relative old bottle.