Lou Pepe Gueuze

Brasserie Cantillon in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

Lambic Style - Gueuze Winter

Score

8.07

ABV: 5.5%

IBU: 30

Ticks: 199

The Lou Pepe Gueuze is a blend of three different 2-year-old lambics. The standard Cantillon Gueuze is a blend of 1,2, and 3-year-olds. The inclusion of the younger lambic (which still has some unfermented sugars in it) sparks a refermentation in the bottle that gives Gueuze its famous champagne-like spritziness. The simple idea behind the special Lou Pepe blend is that it should have much more of the taste of old lambic, which is of course much harder, drier, more sour, and more complex than the young stuff. (Though 3-year-olds are generally more complex than 2-year-olds, it's not necessarily so; the 2-year-olds used in this instance have as much character as most 3-year-olds.) This being Gueuze, it has to be spritzy, so the brewery opted for the same method used in conditioning champagne: everyday refined sugar is dissolved in water and added to cause a refermentation. The sugar ferments out completely, so there is no residual sweetness, which Jean-Pierre famously detests.

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mart (27384) ticked Lou Pepe Gueuze (2011 Sticker, Bottled 2013 ) from Brasserie Cantillon 5 months ago

Hapu, päris mõru, funky, väga kuiv, tsitrus. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jun 2025 at 16:20

8.9

TimE (11149) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze (1999 Sticker, Bottled 2002) from Brasserie Cantillon 5 months ago

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Dirty brown color. Light lacing. Amazing nose of barnyard. Leather, oak, iron and hay. Definitely some oxidation but it works so well. Tart, leather oxidation tons of barnyard and cobwebs. Super tart. Superb long tart finish with the oak continuing

Tried on 10 Jun 2025 at 13:25

8.9

TimE (11149) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze (2013 Sticker, Bottled 2015 ) from Brasserie Cantillon 6 months ago

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Golden color. Beautiful nose of horse blanket barnyard and cognac that is so complex and amazing. The barrel adds this perfect

Tried on 27 May 2025 at 06:28

8.1

Oakes (33097) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze (2007 Sticker, Bottled 2009) from Brasserie Cantillon 6 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Cloudy, thick head. Aroma is leather, earthy. Soft, sweet, nice pear, peach accents. Sweet and mellow, refined, only mild wildness. Very good.

Tried on 10 May 2025 at 20:05

RennyDoig (4318) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze from Brasserie Cantillon 7 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

750mL bottle at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Nice barnyard on the nose. Flavour is dry, slightly acidic. Nice complexity, very good.

Tried from Bottle at Moeder Lambic Fontainas on 29 Apr 2025 at 20:00

tiong (21241) ticked Lou Pepe Gueuze (2020 Sticker, Bottled 2023 ) from Brasserie Cantillon 7 months ago

Tart, funky and complex with some farmyardy yeastiness and sourness, mild sourness and earthiness. Balanced.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Apr 2025 at 19:59

CoccoBill (10298) ticked Lou Pepe Gueuze (2020 Sticker, Bottled 2023 ) from Brasserie Cantillon 7 months ago

Sour, a bit sweet, soft and smooth. Lemony citrus or maybe lemongrass, dry wood, low acidity. Tasty, but seems very cellarable. Very nice.

Tried on 11 Apr 2025 at 14:27

8.6

EvNa (5983) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze (2020 Sticker, Bottled 2023 ) from Brasserie Cantillon 8 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Color: Slightly hazy golden, dense white head. Aroma: Very fruity, gooseberry and grape, rural funk, notes of hay. Taste: Again fruitforward. Gooseberry, unripe grape, some green apple, hints if citrus. Subtle rural funk. Some hay and minerals. Moderate tart. Very well balanced. Great Gueuze.

Tried from Bottle from Bierhandel Willems on 28 Mar 2025 at 19:55

7.9

BeerPlace (10850) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze (2007 Sticker, Bottled 2009) from Brasserie Cantillon 8 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

42th Birthday gathering. 750ml (thx, Alex!) @ 🏡
Aroma: nice funk, juicy.
Taste: along the same lines, crispy, nice funk.
Overall: still good one.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2025 at 06:52

8.1

pictoman (9602) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze (2007 Sticker, Bottled 2009) from Brasserie Cantillon 8 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Poured from 750mL bottle. Black fungus cork. Hazed gold with white head. Earthy funk, feint hint of cheese, nice complexity, age makes it slightly subdued.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2025 at 06:51