Feestbier HBL
Brasserie Cantillon in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.56
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Brewed for the lustrum of Heikantse BierLiefhebbers, lambic with green gooseberry.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clearish copper with a small white head. Green pepper. Soured green pepper and a nice light sour finish.
Tried
from Bottle
at
1420
on 07 Nov 2021
at 16:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear gold with a small head. Black pepper and dusty notes. Sour and some pepper notes. Gooseberry is there, but doesn't really pop at this age.
Tried
from Bottle
at
1420
on 07 Nov 2021
at 16:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Occasional ’beer’ for the 20th anniversary of beer club HBL, consisting of old Cantillon lambic, Iris, Achilles gooseberries and a ’liqueur’ for refermentation in the bottle, like they do in the Lou Pépé range. Thick, regular, yellowish white head, deep orange blonde colour, murky. Intense aroma of sherry, lemon juice, hay, grapes, tomato, honey and indeed a lot of gooseberry. Taste very fruity, less acid than I would have expected from this brewery (probably because of the Iris, which has a softer character than usual for Cantillon), even a sweetish touch at a certain moment, strong carbonation, dry sourness, gooseberry present but not overwhelmingly, typical funky, dry and thirst-quenching finish. A different Cantillon and less exciting than I had expected.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2014
at 07:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Hazy golden color, large fluffy cream colored head that settles quickly. Aroma of fruit skins, dust and white pepper. Taste is solidly sour grapefruit, lemonpeel, subtle pepper, attic. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2012
at 14:22
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(Bottle at VBPF08 on 2008-05-18) Golden colour. Hazy. White small head. Sour nose with gooseberry and burnt wood. Acidic and dry palte. Sour taste contains gooseberry, burned wood and bitterness. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2008
at 03:36
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sunny orange colour with small yellowish head, gone fast. Fruity, dry lambic nose, aroma of unripe kiwifruit, green grapes, horseblanket. Very raw fruit acids and lactic acid (point of acetic as well, but very restrained). I get a bit of liqueur, but as to which - Bénédictine? Very earthy flavours, fresh, not quite ripe berries. More tart, you die. HBL-people - sorry. I had the try-out, and didn’t completely like it - that was just too raw. This one is excellent, now.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2007
at 01:08