Cantillon Tyrnilambic Baie dArgousier

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

375ml bottle brewed in 2002 from <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/finland/ target=blank>One Pint Pub in Helsinki, Finland. Light golden in colour, thing white head, some leftover lacing. The aroma had a soft sourness, quite floral, lightly acidic, lemons, musty, some barnyard. The flavour is musty and acidic, lightly sweet from the buckthorn berries, very dry, tart and citrusy. A bit sticky in the mouthm medium body, high carbonation. Finishes with a floral bitterness, long with some acidity. The dryness comes in at the very end. Unbelievable and surely one of the best Cantillons made.

Very pale chromate yellow with slight initial haze, just a faint rim of white foam. Typical Cantillon waft of Brett, phenols, lemon, rotting wood. And then, there is another waft behind - anyone can guess fruity-herbal, and I recognise clearly the sea-buckthorn fruit - but then I used to pick those as a child. Very dry, tart taste, with an unbelievable burst of fruit, dry, tannine- and resinrich. This is gorgeous, exquisite. It’s like taking a summerstroll in the dunes, on horseback: the resin, the heat blistering the sand, the iodium in the air, the horses damping... There’s a sticky feeling only some dry fruit can yield. Even this is authentic. Medium bodied. Clearly one of Cantillons’ finest tries. In a less beery bottle, with a fancy Italian or French name, it might become a yuppies’ classic. Not that the label isn’t actually a beauty to behold. The only setback is, that I fear this resiny flavour is not something to down from Magnums...

2002 bottle at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Golden with a small white head. Complex fruity, acidic berries aroma, a bit of cheese, farmyard. Extremely sharp, refreshing berries, tearing down the enamel, funk, dry as a bone. Still well-carbonated. One of the very best, perfectly matured.

0.375 l bottle, 2003 vintage. Golden-yellow color with more head than usually in lambics. Very rich and refreshing, lots of acid and parfumy aroma of sea buckthorn, reminding cloudberry. Acidic flavor with horsey-bitter wild yeast bite and strong berryish backbone. Nice long berryish finish. Bone dry, but not as hard as some other cantillons. Also more fruit character than say in their Kriek. Excellent!

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.

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!

37,5 @ One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Slightly cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma was quite sour with barnyard, leather, lemons and those sour tyrnil berries. Flavour was very sour with tyrnil berries, wood, leather, barnyard and lemons. Finished kick assed sour. Lovely. Thanks Patrick!

This one is brewed for One Pint Pub in Helsingfors. It is made with special Finnish berries called tyrni in Finland and sea-bucthorn in English. [Vintage 2001] Light golden coloured with quite some sediment. The aroma is complex and very cloudberry-like. The flavour is very sour, tart and citrusy. The carbonation is very low, almost absent. A very tasty and interesting beer.