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at bar cantillon, no year known for this draft

Light, soft, creamy. Soft citrus, dry wood. Smooth, very nice.

Tap @ Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Pours clear golden still. Notes of nutty vin jaune, lightly spicy, citrus, orange, mandarin, dark fruits, subtle funk.

The tap version of Cantillon’s famed ‘vin jaune lambic’, lambic aged on vin jaune barrels, a kind of deliberately oxidized wine from the French Jura region; this lambic has – in various forms and under various names including the current name La Vie Est Belge – been bottled as well, with stunning results. From tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas during Zwanze Day. Egg-white, thick and frothy, fluffy, stable head on a misty yellow-straw blonde beer. Aroma of lemon rind, sour green grapes, unripe plums, raw cucumber, stale sweat, crushed green gooseberries, very dry sherry. Crisp, fruity onset, lime juice-like acidity alongside sour grape and green apple impressions, acidic edges but not too harshly puckering, fizzy carb, slick bready malt ‘underbuilt’ made bone dry by lemony and strong lactic sourness; light hayish Brett touches in the end along with rhubarb and cucumber aspects, followed by light woody tannins and a deeply buried, late earthy hop bitter note. Nice, very crisp, ‘yellowish green’ top quality lambic, yet lacking in the immense depth, originality and maturity I experienced in bottled La Vie Est Belge last year.