Rosé de Gambrinus
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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9/10
Tried
on 26 May 2023
at 20:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Smell of sour cherry, faint sugar. Purple colour, pink head. Aroma of sour cherry, acid, vanilla, faint raspberry in finish. Very sour. Fizzy carbon.
Tried
on 14 May 2023
at 20:03
8/10
Hazy pink body small foamy white head. Tart spicy berry aroma. Tart spicy berry flavor. Light body high carbonation. 9/2/9/5/18 4.3
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2023
at 15:33
8/10
Fruity and sour, a bit tart and dry. Red raspberries, a bit of earthy funk, smooth, low acidity, rich. Excellent.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2023
at 16:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
pinkish ruby colour, no head at all; aroma and taste of lemon and sour cherry juice, raspberry, some acetone and earthy-cellary notes; quite good one
Tried
on 02 Jan 2023
at 16:10
Tried
on 29 Oct 2022
at 18:36
8/10
Freshly bottled at the brewery. Fruity nose. The beer starts very fruity. Tons of raspberries with not much carbonation. Deeply fruity. Great sour fresh raspberries with horse blanket funk in the back. Great fruitiness.
Tried
on 22 Oct 2022
at 11:02
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bière pression bue au Bierbuik a Lille. Robe très rose façon bière à la cerise. Nez acidulé, bouche très acide dans la tradition des gueuze, bouche légèrement fermière, notes de foin.
Tried
on 21 Oct 2022
at 11:29
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from HavnensVinOgTobak. Pours cloudy dark pale red with tiny vanishing pink head. Aroma is intense raspberry, vinegar, yeast, sugar strawberry, redcurrant, soap and fresh roses. Taste is light to medium sweet and very acidic. Bosy is oily with fizzy carbonation. Finish is long and mostly sour with notes of red berries, vinegar, yeast, soap, roses, perfume and a slightly unpleasant earthy and funky end that I cannot pin down.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2022
at 22:10
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at home in Hackney - received as a gift from Henrik. Cheers! Pours clear reddish pink with a frothy, pink head that settles into a cream. Lightly sweet with lovely fresh, fleshy and tart raspberries, sturdy and stable acidity, soft funk, mellow seedy bitterness. Light bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Clean finish, lightly drying, further juicy raspberry, quenching tartness. Outstanding. These Cantillon guys really know their stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2022
at 19:54