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4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brasserie Cantillon, Lambic - Fruit

Cantillon Piacere

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Brewery: Brasserie Cantillon
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.5%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Ciliegiolo grapes

Brewer Description: (from bottle) A collaboration between Fuori Mondo & Cantillon. A blend of two-year-old lambic and Ciliegiolo, a close relative of San Giovese, whose name means cherry in Italian.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.34
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle at the brewery, bottled on 27th October 2023. Poured into a Cantillon tasting glass.
Appearance: A slightly hazy ruby red colour with a one finger pinkish head that dissipated quickly to nothing, while leaving no lacing.
Aroma: Sweet red fruit, strawberries, cherry, grape skin, with red wine vinous notes.
Taste: Lightly sweet and tart, grape skin, red wine vinous, red berries, notes of blood orange and wood.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: It was good, easy drinking, with nice fruit aroma and flavours.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Gueuzerie Tilquin, Lambic - Fruit

Tilquin Mûre-Rhubarb – Draft Version

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Brewery: Gueuzerie Tilquin
Country: Belgium
ABV: 5.4%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Draft version

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) The Mûre-Rhubarbe Tilquin – Draft Version (5.4% alc/vol) is a spontaneous fermentation beer obtained from the fermentation of frozen blackberries and fresh rhubarb in a blend of 50% of Meerts and 50% of 1 and 2 years old lambics, to reach a final concentration of 175 gr blackberries and 175 gr rhubarb per liter.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.99
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 250ml draft pour at Moeder Lambic Fontainas into a Moeder Lambic tulip glass.
Appearance: A slightly hazy reddish orange colour, with a half finger pinkish head, that had good retention and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Sweet blackberry, notes of rhubarb, mixed berry hard candy notes, musty, hay, funk.
Taste: Sweet and sour mixed berries hard candy, blackberry dominates, notes of rhubarb, lemon zest, lemon, with some light funk.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Easy to drink, but more intense blackberry and rhubarb would have improved it.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Lambic - Gueuze

3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XVIII.iv: Single Wood Kastanje

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.8%
Style: Lambic – Gueuze
Other Notes: Blend°112, Season 21/22. Number of bottles – 486

Brewer Description: (from bottle) This series of eight Spelingen van het Lot feature the ageing of the same lambikken on different wooden barrels. The lambikken come off two different brews, fully crafted with cereals sourced from our cereal collective and fully organic. The different wood types used are: American oak, German oak, acacia, the combination of German oak and acacia, chestnut, ash, cherry and mulberry. This bottle features the chestnut wood and was handbottled on 486 bottles.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.28
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle at 3 Fonteinen lambik-O-droom, blend°112, season 21/22, bottled on 8th September 2022. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A clear golden orange colour, with a one finger white head, that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Tart, yellow stone fruit, funk, wet wood, wet leather, apricot, and lemon zest.
Taste: Sour, tart, lemon, unripe mandarin orange, gooseberry, leather, wood, funk, with peppery notes.
Mouthfeel: Smooth, medium bodied, with soft carbonation.
Overall: Drinks nicely and was enjoyable. The series is interesting, but I didn’t have the opportunity to compare and try the others aged on different wooden barrels.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brasserie Cantillon, Lambic - Fruit

Cantillon La Corvée

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Brewery: Brasserie Cantillon
Country: Belgium
ABV: 7.5%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Trousseau and Poulsard grapes

Brewer Description: (from bottle in French) Une collaboration entre le Domaine Stéphane Tissot et la Brasserie Cantillon. Assemblage de marc de Trousseau et Poulsard macéré 3 mois en amphore et de Lambic de deux ans d’âge. Refermenté naturellement en bouteille.

(translated to English) A collaboration between Domaine Stéphane Tissot and Brasserie Cantillon. Blend of Trousseau and Poulsard marc macerated for 3 months in amphora and two-year-old Lambic. Naturally refermented in the bottle.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.29
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle at the brewery, bottled on 24th March 2022. Poured into a Cantillon tasting glass.
Appearance: A clear golden orange colour with a slightly pink tinge, and a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly to a ring around the glass, while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Tart, minerally, cactus, cucumber, grape skin, vinous, and lemon zesty.
Taste: Somewhat like the aroma, tart, minerally, kiwi, cucumber, melon, cactus, sweetish, raspberry, vinous, with lemon zesty notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: This was definitely interesting, as while still being vinous, the aroma and flavours were not what I expected. Especially those kiwi and cactus notes.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Lambic - Unblended

3 Fonteinen Oude Lambik 2017 (6 Year)

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.9%
Style: Lambic – Unblended
Other Notes: Blend°57, Season 22/23

Brewer Description: (from bottle) The foundation and our essence: lambik as it should be; pure, spontaneous and complex. For six years, three consecutive brews from March 2017 fermented and matured in the same oak barrel. This fine lambik was bottled in a dark brown bottle and finished with the most excellent cork. For even longer cellar ageing.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.06
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 750ml corked bottle, blend°57, season 22/23, bottled on 21st March 2023. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen gueuze glass.
Appearance: A clear dark golden orange colour with a very thin white head that dissipated quickly, while leaving pretty much no lacing.
Aroma: Oak, funky, musty, tart, green apple, grape must, light citrus zest.
Taste: Sour, tart, oak, wet wood, musty, funky, grapefruit zest, and leathery notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with no carbonation.
Overall: Good complexity and very crushable.