Cantillon Tyrnilambic Baie dArgousier

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Bottled: Golden coloured. Hazy. Fluffy white head. Dry and grapish sour aroma with loads of berry scents. Is very acidic and quite astringent in the flavour. The tyrnilberries are there I suppose, but its a little hard to tell, as I havn’t tasted tyrnilberries in real life. Is very salty and tasty. I love the great souness of this beer. Very cleansing and refreshing.

(Bottled) Hazy orange with a very small head. Dry, sour and fruity buckthorn berry aroma. Dry, sourish flavor with mild buckthorn and wheat. Medium-bodied, a bit-carbonated palate. I’m not the greatest fan of buckthorn berries, but this is quite what you’d expect from a lambic brewed from them.

Vintage 2002, bottled 37,5 cl
Hazy orangy yellow, small head. Strong acidy and sour nose: earthy (cork) with barnyard aroma. As to expect: dry. Very carbonated, acidy sour flavor. Fruity, earthy notes are in the background, not much buckthornberry. Fruityness makes this almost enjoyably refreshing. Otherwise quite "ordinary" Cantillon. (7/3/7/3/13 3.3)
Re-rated, made from vintage 2003 lambik, bottled in 2005
Hazy golden, decent head. Sour Cantillon nose. Very sour, much drier than Cantillon Groseille à maquereau sampled just before this. Sea buckthorn is dominating the flavor quite nicely. (7/3/8/4/15 3.7)

Bottled. Yellow a bit hazy colour, white big foamy head. Sea buckthornberry and hops + a bit of malt in aroma. Authentic Sea buckthorn flavour. I usually pick some 10+ litres of these berries every year, which kind of hurts on the hands .)

375mL bottle. 2003 bottling of a 2001 brewing. Bottle number 134. Shared with TAR on 7/8/2005.
Aroma has bits of berry pulp, lightly sour at first, with some cider and green apples, and something like cedar tannins. Just a hint of soft, sweet yellow fruitiness on the end, which excites the nose and prompts more desirous sniffing. To the eye, it appears a pale, copper-gold, with some white grapeskin tints. Small, somewhat foamy white head is moderately to poorly retained. Beer is heavily unfiltered and mildly hazy. After sniffing more, I’m getting brett, woody-wet earth and rotting leaves. Pungent, bacterial and funky. Maybe some pears and apples too. Very fine bubbles continuously rise. Starting out, on the palate, I get some light honeyish malt, though the beer is quite dry other than that. Juicy, tart berries, brett and plenty of sour bacteria á la Cantillon. Juicy on the end and quite bursting with flavor. Sourness of the regular Cantillon gueuze, but it passes more rapidly and dosent strip the enamel quite as easily. Light sulphur is easily detectable, more honey and brett tartness mix amongst each other. Mouthfeel begins with very fine, pleasurable bubbles, almost peppery, but easing out and ending somewhat thicker and with decent malt body to it. Overall, the berries provide some flavor, but as the lambic ages, thus the fruit fades and so it is here, though it is by no means gone. Medium to medium-full body overall, relative to style, but it does have a little looseness in the middle. Some wood-like character lingers on with the juicy tartness. Darn good. Thanks again, Juha, this was a real treat!

Bottle in One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Now this is something special. Typically Cantillon hazy straw coloured and with the classic musty wheat sacks and crushed lemon aroma. Superbly flavoured - sweetish (for Lambic) yet very subtle and fruity with an astringency like stewed tea and a pronounced bitter edge. Loads of musty lemon and woody notes in the long, dry finish. A classic.

Had this beer at the one pint pub in Ruoholahti. The smell is difficult to place, maybe some woody, almost barn yard impression. The taste was a very bitter, with the sea-buckthorn coming through subtlely. Only an average lambic aside from the exotic ingredients.

Bottle @ Helsinki Beer Festival, Helsinki Finland Backlog 2 April, 2005
Vintage 2002 (bottling year on label)
Such a treat at this festival to be able to try out two new Cantillions. I can’t argument with Joris below, and have not much to add. The fruit is new to me, though, but I found it very good and interresting and elegant.