Tap at Birra Berlin. Lightly hazy red body, mildly pinkish head. Light sweetish lean red grape notes with some light funk in the aroma, cherry-like somewhat, bit creamy Lovely simple sweetish cherry and spice red grape profile, sourish, not dried through so a bit juicy, smooth. Extremely elegant, drinkable stuff. Love I got to try it and huge thanks Manuele for pointing Timo and me towards it!

Spritziger, fein säuerlicher Beginn. Ingwer, feine Säure, minimal herb, hohe Süffigkeit. Spritzig, fein säuerlicher Abgang. 8/10/10/10//10

Light amber/copper with a white head. Light tart though not overly acidic, Brett, bright citrus, minerals, floral notes. Medium bodied. Some horse blanket in the finish. A very nice beer.

Blend of Iris and regular Cantillon lambic made back in 2015 for the twentieth anniversary of the legendary Swedish beer restaurant Akkurat - tasted there from a 75 cl bottle picked from their extensive vintage list. Tiny snow white ring of foam taking some forcing to develop and dissolving again quickly after that, hazy ochre-tinged peach blonde robe. Aroma of haybarn, very old leather, dried mushrooms, old furniture, sourdough, wakame, sulfur (freshly struck matches - could be yeast autolysis here), raw seafood (mussels), hard green plum (strong!), horseblanket, damp cellar, old dry sherry, mugwort, pickled cucumber, egg yolk, dried old lemon rind, bitter weeds. Tart, dry, estery, somewhat 'dirty' onset, unripe plum, some hard nectarine and then this odd 'side' saltiness of raw seafood; close to flat carb, slightly astringent, vinous mouthfeel. Sourdoughy core with this seafood element continuing, very 'hard' lactic and leathery effects, pickled gherkin and preserved lemon but without harsh acidity. Old woody tannins in the end - very strongly so - almost like chewing on old furniture, with retronasal horseblanket, grapefruit rind and old hop bitterness to finish everything off. Has some of Iris' breadiness so this element is recognisable, but otherwise quite 'contrarian', bone dry, funky and 'hard', peeking into Cantillon's past, bringing me back to the old days - in that sense far removed from the refined, elegant grape and other fruit lambics they produced in the past years. Not very accessible and not Cantillon's greatest, but very complex and interesting nonetheless.

From tap. Pours hazy deep orange with a small white head. Aroma is winous fruity. Mellow fruity. Light wooden. Floral to fruity. Mellow and juicy fruity far finish. Medium dry sour.

Poured from 750mL bottle (2021 vintage). Lightly hazed orange gold with minimal white head. Dry floral elderflower, light funk, okay.