Bière de Coupage - Quintessence
Brasserie de la Senne in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brasserie CantillonFarmhouse - Sour Saison Special
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Score
7.17
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Our BIÈRE DE COUPAGE, created for the 25th birthday of Cantillon’s Quintessence, is now available at our brewery shop!
This beer uses an ancient and typically Belgian technique called ‘coupage’: the blend of a sour beer with a young ale. The sour beer we used is 2-year-old Lambic from Cantillon. The result is a 6.2% abv amber beer, with an appealing tartness and a deep, complex vinous character.
This beer uses an ancient and typically Belgian technique called ‘coupage’: the blend of a sour beer with a young ale. The sour beer we used is 2-year-old Lambic from Cantillon. The result is a 6.2% abv amber beer, with an appealing tartness and a deep, complex vinous character.
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7.4/10
Blend of tropical, mostly pineapple, white grape, and malt notes. LCI
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2025
at 16:17
7/10
Very full bodied. Nice malty base but with fresh tart and woody notes from the Lambic.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2025
at 18:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Raynville Superstore. It pours hazy deep orange with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is musty, funky, barnyard, grape, citrus peel, sherbet, fizzy cola bottles, vinous, damp wood and funk. The taste firmly dry, musty, damp leaves and wood, earthy, deep funk, brett, white grape, gooseberry, white currants and a touch of leather with a drying, funky finale. Medium body and average carbonation. Really got into this. Nice depth and funk.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Raynville Superstore
on 13 Jun 2025
at 11:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle. Pours a hazy orange mahogany with light head but lots of carbonation. Aromas of earthy berries, citrus, a bit of caramel and toasted malts. Flavors of berries are brighter and tart but still somewhat earthy. Add oak, bitter citrus and softvtiasty malts. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 11 Jun 2025
at 17:14
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Large sample from tap in the Admiral Benbow, Shrewsbury on 7th June 2025. Amber body, off white head. Too sour for me, still struggle with Lambic beers, I've tried to embrace them but can't. Scored objectively.
Tried
from Draft
at
Admiral Benbow
on 07 Jun 2025
at 16:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
Bottle @ Etre Gourmet, Belgium. Pours cloudy amber with a small White head. Funk and barnyard with a touch of Wood, caramel and earhty berry alike notes. Quite Dry, fresh and tasty. Dope. Fun to see where it Will go. 4.1
Tried
on 02 Jun 2025
at 13:35
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours dark, unclear amber. Small white head. Scent is rye-like, caramel, amber malty. Taste is bitter, dry, very crunchy ambermalts. Bit acidic. Higher carbo, fairly dry. A bit puzzling beer, that doesn't really go into a specific direction.
Tried
on 03 May 2025
at 05:35
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330mL bottle at Cantillon for Quintessence 2025, pours a clear amber with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of rustic farmhouse notes, earthiness, and some fermented out dry tart red berries. Flavour is dry and earthy, with plenty of bready malt, rustic saison yeast, and some red berries. Dry, earthy and bready. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Cantillon
on 01 May 2025
at 22:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle pour at Quintessence 2025. Pours hazy gold with a white head. I didn't really get much off of this one other than sweet lemony citrus and some herbal grass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2025
at 16:26
7/10
Malty, dry, a bit sour. Fair and balanced, surprisingly drinkable. Nice.
Tried
on 01 May 2025
at 14:36