Iris
Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
7.77
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Spontaneous fermentation beer produced using only pale-ale type malt.
Iris brings together two elements that were very present in our beers until the middle of the 20th century : the acidity produced by spontaneous fermentation and the bitterness resulting from the use of fresh hops followed by cold hopping.
Iris brings together two elements that were very present in our beers until the middle of the 20th century : the acidity produced by spontaneous fermentation and the bitterness resulting from the use of fresh hops followed by cold hopping.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by Jack, thanks! Pours a hazy peach amber with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has a nice tart light fruit with a good amount of flora and a slight earthy note supporting. Flavor has a nice dry sour citrus with a good amount of flora with some oak and herbal notes supporting.
Tried
on 26 Apr 2026
at 00:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy orange colour with a tiny white head, which disappears quite fast. Aroma is tart fruits, wood, some brett and mild funky tones. Flavour is quite similar to the aroma. Age has rounded this one rather nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2025
at 18:35
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tart lime aroma
Lime, apple, metallic, herbal & medicinal tastes.
Sharp as a pin
Lime, apple, metallic, herbal & medicinal tastes.
Sharp as a pin
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2025
at 21:00
8.2/10
Elegant floral notes up front, followed by some tangerine and a layered minerality. Sharp funk. Lingering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2025
at 22:09
8.6/10
LCI SbS with 2019. More pronounced bitterness up front, earthy notes, very different but not necessarily better or worse
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2025
at 00:07
8.6/10
LCI. Always lovely. Nice to do SbS 5 years difference. A bit more softened here, floral character is still noticeable, light funk.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2025
at 00:05
8/10
Tried
on 22 May 2025
at 15:38
9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
2014 bottle, thanks to Willrunforbeer, drunk 1/14/2023. Mega-bretty, oh yeah. That's pretty nuts. Still some hops in there, even, 9 years later! Sulfur, mineral, light rubber, really rich and even with some excellent malt. Soft, malty, surprisingly low on the sourness, zero acidity even low lactic acid with all brett and huge minerality. Horsey as shit. Better than I remember, though of course it's so different every time, every bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2025
at 13:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
On draught at Redbones, August 2005 Actually, I had it on draught at Anam Cara about a month ago too, but that sample was in terrible shape and quite oxidized. This one proved much more fresh, hoppy, tart and rustic. BUT, it still is too loose in texture for me. I think this stuff is probably better a little bit younger, where the beautiful hoppiness and a bit sweeter flavor, as has been confirmed, in my mind, by my samples of younger bottles, still exists.
Tried
from Draft
at
Redbones
on 15 Mar 2025
at 13:44
8.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
2005 bottle consumed 2/9/06. Very quenching, fruity, acidic and with a large amount of pediococcus in the middle, ending more drily on a lactic note. Lots of green apples in both flavor and aroma, very musty, cheesy, lightly tannic and just overall, bursting with flavors. My biggest complaint, though it’s not as evident in this sample, as in some of the older ones, is that the beer is a bit watery and the mouthfeel looser than it should be (to convey the sourness and even the hops).
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2025
at 13:43