Mamouche
Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Winter|
Score
8.07
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Two-year-old Lambic in which elderberry flowers have been soaked.
The character of the elderberry flowers lends this beer a very pronounced, floral taste that is nevertheless very refreshing.
Since 2008, once a year Cantillon Brewery has produced Zwanze, a special-edition beer that is completely different each time around, with Mamouche originally appearing as Zwanze 2009. This beer is completely different from anything else produced by Cantillon, and we decided to continue producing it on a regular basis. Mamouche is what the seven grandsons of the Van Roy-Cantillon family call their grandmother, Claude Cantillon. As such it is the counterpart of the Lou Pepe beers.
The character of the elderberry flowers lends this beer a very pronounced, floral taste that is nevertheless very refreshing.
Since 2008, once a year Cantillon Brewery has produced Zwanze, a special-edition beer that is completely different each time around, with Mamouche originally appearing as Zwanze 2009. This beer is completely different from anything else produced by Cantillon, and we decided to continue producing it on a regular basis. Mamouche is what the seven grandsons of the Van Roy-Cantillon family call their grandmother, Claude Cantillon. As such it is the counterpart of the Lou Pepe beers.
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7/10
750ml shared by a cool traveling
Floral and fruity with some funk. Smooth and nice, way better than the previous one I had.
9☆3☆8☆3☆16》39
Floral and fruity with some funk. Smooth and nice, way better than the previous one I had.
9☆3☆8☆3☆16》39
Tried
from Draft
on 31 May 2025
at 13:02
9/10
First time having Mamouche, the elderflower lambic. Love it! Floral, vaguely vegetal, pleasantly tart. Left.
Tried
on 01 May 2025
at 16:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750mL bottle at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Pours hazy blonde with a white head. Very botanical nose. Flavour has juniper berries, punchy acidity, a touch of barnyard funk. Nice, I like how the botanicals were incorporated into the beer.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Moeder Lambic Fontainas
on 29 Apr 2025
at 20:00
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle, 2011, drunk 2/5/16. Huge thanks to James for opening this!
Lightly murky, drab copper with some brighter hay tones throughout. Huge white head, even decanting the beer, that slowly fades to cover.
Unmistakable elderflower in the nose combines with perfumey brett notes, tons of basement/cellar character and a light touch of wood. It’s bright, pervasive and true to Cantillon’s fruit lambics, very fruit-forward (in this case flower-forward). Elderflower, being quite powerfully aromatic, seems to find a good match in the ripe and earthy funk that Cantillon lambics bring to the table and it’s incredibly unique smelling the interplay of both.
Delightful carbonation, tight and natural as always, helps spread this magnificently flavorful elderflower all over the palate, while lactic and brett acids somewhat match the intensity providing their own funky punch. At 5 years of age, this is still very vibrant and strong and I’d be very hard-pressed to imagine this being optimal to drink when brand new. The elderflower is a very strong flavor component that easily (and has almost always) turns things astringent when not carefully controlled. While it is here done very well, there are still some touches of bland nuttiness, soap/oil and light astringency that are inevitable from its use. Wood/oak and mature barnyard flavors abound behind the elderflower and the beer is an absolute joy to drink. Experimental and fun, yet well-executed.
Lightly murky, drab copper with some brighter hay tones throughout. Huge white head, even decanting the beer, that slowly fades to cover.
Unmistakable elderflower in the nose combines with perfumey brett notes, tons of basement/cellar character and a light touch of wood. It’s bright, pervasive and true to Cantillon’s fruit lambics, very fruit-forward (in this case flower-forward). Elderflower, being quite powerfully aromatic, seems to find a good match in the ripe and earthy funk that Cantillon lambics bring to the table and it’s incredibly unique smelling the interplay of both.
Delightful carbonation, tight and natural as always, helps spread this magnificently flavorful elderflower all over the palate, while lactic and brett acids somewhat match the intensity providing their own funky punch. At 5 years of age, this is still very vibrant and strong and I’d be very hard-pressed to imagine this being optimal to drink when brand new. The elderflower is a very strong flavor component that easily (and has almost always) turns things astringent when not carefully controlled. While it is here done very well, there are still some touches of bland nuttiness, soap/oil and light astringency that are inevitable from its use. Wood/oak and mature barnyard flavors abound behind the elderflower and the beer is an absolute joy to drink. Experimental and fun, yet well-executed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2025
at 13:58
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
2022 vintage bottle shared at the brewery. Citrushejjas, kellemesen savas, funky, kisse tanninos, joghurtos bodzaszorp. Nagyon szepen osszeall, komplex, kerek, de ugyanakkor felfedezheto benne egy szep egyszeruseg is, ha nem vagyik gondolkodasra az ember.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:07
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Cask Days 2018. Funky, but subdued. Floral, yet tart, with some wet hay, and light horse blanket, and lactic notes. Mouthfeel is lively, carb is more of the same. Tart, floral finish, light fruit, and cereals. Well balanced, very enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:48
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From bottle at Wild Festival 2021. 2020 bottle. Aroma is pretty herbal with elderflower, notes of dille. Medium sour with a little bitterness. Medium body.Pretty young, lacks complexity. Very herbal. Cantillon can do a lot better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2025
at 06:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle 0,75ltr: Slightly hazy golden Lambic thats not so sour as its regular brews from Cantillon. Its kind a fruity and flowery of taste,and quite dry and bitter too. They used elderflower its an good Lambic variation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0,75l from bottle at the brewery. Apparantly this is a blend with some(?) Ashanti. yellow hazy color, small white head. smells herbal, earthy, tobacco, spices, coriander. full body, soft carbonation. tastes spices, earthy, coriander, tobacco. finishes lightly dry and light to medium sour with notes of herbal, spices and tobacco. Very interesting one, very much like it. Rather unique
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Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2024
at 18:54
8/10
Hapu, leedrine, musta piprane, puuviljane, funky, nats nisu, veits happeline. Äge, pipar sobib hästi siia.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2024
at 19:03