Rosé de Gambrinus
(has 21 batches)
Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Framboise Regular|
Score
7.78
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"It has the colour of onion skin", said a voice behind me.
It was Raymond Coumans.
He was admiring the colour of the raspberry lambic reflecting in the red copper of the buckets used to empty the barrels. At that time (1986), "Raspberry-Lambic" already was synonymous with a sweet, artificially flavoured beer. This is why we decided to distinguish our beer from the other raspberry beers. Raymond proposed to call it a rosé, dedicated not to Bacchus but to Gambrinus.
The process to make this beer is identical to the one to make Kriek. When young, the Rosé de Gambrinus will still present its full fruity taste. Later on, the lambic taste will become dominant at the expense of the fruit taste.
Source : Lambic.info
It was Raymond Coumans.
He was admiring the colour of the raspberry lambic reflecting in the red copper of the buckets used to empty the barrels. At that time (1986), "Raspberry-Lambic" already was synonymous with a sweet, artificially flavoured beer. This is why we decided to distinguish our beer from the other raspberry beers. Raymond proposed to call it a rosé, dedicated not to Bacchus but to Gambrinus.
The process to make this beer is identical to the one to make Kriek. When young, the Rosé de Gambrinus will still present its full fruity taste. Later on, the lambic taste will become dominant at the expense of the fruit taste.
Source : Lambic.info
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6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a medium, luminous red, with half a finger of pinkish head that recedes quite quickly, but still leaves a bit of lacing. Medium intensity in the aroma: a soft doughish base, strong raspberry notes, lemon/citric notes, rustic/funky notes at minimum (cardboard?). Taste has a light sweet base, soon overcomed by rather strong (even per style) sourness. Sourness is slightly lactic, mainly citric. Finish is quite dry for the style, with a clean fruity note (half raspberry, half lemon). Taste notes of raspberry, lemon, light doughish base, only slight funky hints. Medium bodied with quite light carbonation, a rather full mouthfeel for a 5% abv beer. This was consumed fresh as suggedted by the brewery (bottled december 2020). The fruity notes were surely bright and intense, but not too deep, and there was not much lambic complexity to speak of. Still, an enjoyable drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2021
at 10:57
8/10
28 sept 2015. W aromacie wciaz intensywne maliny z o dziwo rabarbarem, wymieszane z dzikoscia, mniej grzeczna niz w swiezym, skorzana dosc, zero jakichs piwnicznych aromatow. W uscie zywe, mocno nasycone, zaskakujaco kwasne. Trzyma klase acz ciut za stary
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2021
at 17:46
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottled 11 december 2019. Soft pop only, gorgeous reddish colour with fine, pink foam. Smells buckets of raspberries, soft mouthfeel, light carbonation. Taste is lightly acidic, pretty woody, and super fruity. So much soft raspberry, not harsh at all.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Cantillon
on 20 Dec 2020
at 23:00