Cuvée Saint-Gilloise
(has 21 batches)
Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
7.93
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Cantillon Cuvée Saint Gilloise is a two year old lambic that is dry-hopped and bottled with a small amount of sugar-liquor to begin refermentation in the bottle. The dry-hopping happens in a stainless steal tank prior to bottling. It is bottled yearly in 75cl bottles, but has been available in 37.5cl on at least one occasion in 2010 and on tap at various locations.
Cuvée Saint Gilloise is the successor to Cuvée des Champions and generally thought to be of the same line of lambics. The name and color scheme for the labeling is derived from the Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, a Belgian football club originally located in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, in Brussels near Cantillon. In 2013, Cantillon made a special bottling of Saint Gilloise in both 1.5L and 3L bottles for people who owned or purchased season tickets for the 2013-2014 season.
Saint Gilloise is widely believed to be dry-hopped with Hallertau hops however Jean Van Roy confirmed that the hop varieties change based on availability and as they have sourced hops from different providers
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8/10
Light, sour, fruity. Earthy funk, stone fruit, a touch of acidity, but still smooth and even refreshing. Dry and tart finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2021
at 22:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2021 vintage. Tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Bruxelles, Belgium. Pours amber gold, transparent, with very fine white foam. Aroma is lactic and Brett, barn, herbal. Body is somehow full, with moderate carbonation. Just a bit of astringency. Taste is medium-high sour, with a fairly dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Oct 2021
at 19:43
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2021
at 19:41
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2021
at 16:57
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
2019 bottle shared at Jimmy's farewell party. Pours a clearish honey gold with a finger of white foam that lingers. Musty hay, horseblanket, and notes of dried honey all present on the noses. Palate is similar with light notes of pear, herbs and stonefruit. Drying on the finish with acidity held in check. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2021
at 03:04
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap @Kufle i Kapsle in Warsaw-Poland. Hazy golden-orange pour w bit amber, no foam. Nose: barnyard, funky, citric, cocoa. Mouthfeel: lemony, sharp citric a bit sweet. Clean finish
Tried
from Draft
on 21 May 2021
at 19:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Tap at blb. Pours a cloudy blonde, relatively big white head ( very big for a Lambic, which makes scence because of the extra hops.). Scent is typical cantillon fink. Very grassy, herbal, vegetal fresh grass and twigs like hops. Taste is full, medium intense sourness, with a bit of a bite by the bitterness in the back. Hops are relatively gentle, which is obviously very intense for a lambic though. Like the scent, they express a grassy, twig, herbal note. Still very decent beerw but still not my favorite cantillon.
Tried
on 10 May 2021
at 13:30
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Apr 2021
at 17:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
75cl bottle – Pours a light hazy orange-gold colour with an average sized foamy white head that settled to a thin film. Aroma is barnyard funk and fruity, green apples and pears, lemon and fresh mown hay with some herbal and oak notes. A similar taste, light sweet and moderately sour fruity flavours, tart apple, pear and funk with a long dry mildly acidic finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2020
at 13:12
8/10
The dry finish is stunning here. Clean fresh and tasty. Lambíc funk, just keeps opening and then such an abrupt finish
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Oct 2020
at 16:30