Cuvée de l’Espérance

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

Lambic Style - Gueuze Special Out of Production

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7.73

ABV: 5.5%

IBU: -

Ticks: 5

This special gueuze is a blend of equal parts one, two, and three-year-old lambic, with the entirety of the three-year-old component being aged in Cognac barrels. Bottles will be available exclusively through Brews for New Avenues and 100% of the proceeds benefit homeless, at-risk, and foster youth in the Portland, Oregon area.

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8.5

Scopey (25061) reviewed Cuvée de l’Espérance from Brasserie Cantillon 4 months ago

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

Bottle thanks to Billy. It pours lightly hazy muted orange with a dissipating white head. The aroma is musty, funky, vinous, cognac soaked oak, musty, funky, gooseberry, minerality, white grape, sherbet and dusty basement. The taste is crisp, dry, puckered, mouldy basement, funky, gooseberry, white grape, light acidity, minerality, cognac soaked oak, tactic twang, brett, dirty, basement, limited alcohol, soor plooms, lime sherbet and touch of tannin with a dry finish. Medium body and average carbonation. Lovely. Great depth.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2025 at 14:11

7.1

tderoeck (22679) reviewed Cuvée de l’Espérance from Brasserie Cantillon 3 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

18/IV/22 - 75cl bottle, shared @ home, BB: n/a, bottled: 15/I/20 (2022-382) Thanks to Tinus for sharing the bottle!

Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: funky, brett, horse blanket, cellar, a bit peppery. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, herbal, zesty, some citrus, nice acidity, grapefruit. Aftertaste: dry and bitter, fruity, nice acidity, some cognac notes, sourish, nice beer!

Tried from Bottle at Brasserie Cantillon on 18 Apr 2022 at 21:45

8.8

50belair (203) reviewed Cuvée de l’Espérance from Brasserie Cantillon 3 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle generously shared by Blaise Von Bishop. Yellow pour with a white head. Mild lambic bouquet. Farmhouse (mild), yeast, the cognac barrel is in there. It’s simple, but complex, it’s clean, but it’s irresistible. It’s simply elegant. Great mouthfeel and body.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2022 at 16:42

8.8

djd07 (28898) reviewed Cuvée de l’Espérance from Brasserie Cantillon 3 years ago

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

Bottle thanks to Brian. Pours a hazy gold wth small wiite head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is funk, oak, apple skin, barnyayrd. Slick body, funky, apple, citrus, oak, nice tartness, enjoyed this.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2021 at 23:28

8.6

Buckeyeboy (18951) reviewed Cuvée de l’Espérance from Brasserie Cantillon 4 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

750ml bottle pours out golden topped with a small white head. Nose is nice funky barnyard oak some of the cognac notes a little citrus and dust. Taste is more of the nice light complex notes of the barrels classic funk and some spice.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Dec 2021 at 15:58