Brasserie de la Senne Bière de Coupage - Quintessence

Bière de Coupage - Quintessence

 

Brasserie de la Senne in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

Collab with: Brasserie Cantillon
  Farmhouse - Sour Saison Special
Score
7.24
ABV: 6.2% IBU: - Ticks: 38
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.
 

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7.1/10 — 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 — 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

6.1/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Süffiger, bitter-hopfiger Beginn. Milde Süße, deutlich hefig, spritzig. Trocken, wenig bitter, kurzer Abgang. Ok. 10/9/9/9//9
Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2025 at 13:12

8.5/10
Pic: that's how the pros do it
Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2025 at 11:24

7.5/10
Quintessence 2025. #5.2. Slightly unclear deep golden with white head. Lekker granige pellekes.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Apr 2025 at 15:54

8.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle sampled at Quintessence. Slight hazy deep golden to copper. Light floral, bread crust, light funk, caramel, oak, grassy. Medium sweet and bitter, light sour. Solid medium bodied. Lovely!
Tried from Bottle on 30 Apr 2025 at 13:49

6.9/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Bouteille 33cl lors de la Cantillon Quintessence 2025.
Orangée, col léger blanc.
Arôme sur un léger parfum de grains – plutôt Cantillon dans l’approche mais repris en rétro-nasal par ce bouquet très DLS notamment dans le volet cara pils.
Palais reste beaucoup plus centré sur l’effet Senne – fraicheur des grains, note de pils avec un côté rustique voire un peu céréales auquel vient se couper le lambic. Ce dernier confère des pointes plus fines où le out est finement grinçant aux dents.
In fine, correcte, mais que je trouve moins inspirée que d’autres versions collaboratives dont la Wadesda #9 avec Cantillon – ici, le caractère reste plus sur une belge classique à la sauce DLS et où le volet coupage est brouillon et arrive presque à desservir ce brassin.
Tried from Bottle at Brasserie Cantillon on 30 Apr 2025 at 12:31