Brasserie Cantillon
Microbrewery
in Anderlecht,
Brussels,
Brussels Capital Region,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Brasserie Cantillon
Established in 1900
Contact
Rue Gheude 56, Brussels, 1070, Belgium
Subsidiaries
Description
Open the door of the 56 rue Gheude.
Cantillon ? That’s the time machine. You’ll leave the modern civilization, goodbye to the noise, goodbye to the world.
"But where are we ?", you will ask yourself.
Well, you are in a family brewery where Lambic, Gueuze, Faro and Kriek are made and where nothing has changed since 1900 when it was founded. The Van Roy-Cantillon family welcomes you and invites you to discover a fabulous world. Beers, tools and brewing process are still the same as in the beginning.
Red copper containers, barrels, some of them more than 100 years old, and walls of bottles constitute the scenery for your visit.
Maybe you’ll be lucky to see the brewing or the bottling, maybe you ’ll see how barrels are cleaned or how fruit beers are made in summer. Maybe you’ll be lucky to see the brewing or the bottling, maybe you ’ll see how barrels are cleaned or how fruit beers are made in summer.
Anyway, you’ll be able to taste a real traditional Gueuze-Lambic and if you would like to know more about the Kriek or the Framboise, just ask the brewer.
Cantillon ? That’s the time machine. You’ll leave the modern civilization, goodbye to the noise, goodbye to the world.
"But where are we ?", you will ask yourself.
Well, you are in a family brewery where Lambic, Gueuze, Faro and Kriek are made and where nothing has changed since 1900 when it was founded. The Van Roy-Cantillon family welcomes you and invites you to discover a fabulous world. Beers, tools and brewing process are still the same as in the beginning.
Red copper containers, barrels, some of them more than 100 years old, and walls of bottles constitute the scenery for your visit.
Maybe you’ll be lucky to see the brewing or the bottling, maybe you ’ll see how barrels are cleaned or how fruit beers are made in summer. Maybe you’ll be lucky to see the brewing or the bottling, maybe you ’ll see how barrels are cleaned or how fruit beers are made in summer.
Anyway, you’ll be able to taste a real traditional Gueuze-Lambic and if you would like to know more about the Kriek or the Framboise, just ask the brewer.
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Color: Pale yellow-ish golden, white head. Aroma: Grape, funky. Taste: White grape, grapeskin, rural funk. Hints of horse stable. Moderate tartness. Some stone fruit. Some tannins, but somehow not as much as I expected. Clean, refreshing. Nice beer-wine hybrid.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Bierhandel Willems
on 04 Apr 2026
at 18:37
8.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Excellent. Quite smooth, mild grape, slight metallic, mellow acidity, great. The balance is really outstanding. A little tannic quenching, subtle woody notes. Nips of berry and rounded grape. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
at
La Fine Mousse
on 03 Apr 2026
at 22:03
8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at home. Clear golden with white head. Peach, apricot, soft funk, vanilla, sweet malts, light sour stone fruits cut through. Almost full bodied, carbonation is a bit on the suntle side. Lovely really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2026
at 16:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours clear golden, small white head, decent lacing. Aroma is light, bugs, mineral notes, white grape, must. Flanks is delicately tart, light plus funk. Light body, bright.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2026
at 04:09
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle, with Brandt (thx!), Gurthnar, Zhenya, and Valhalla folks. Hazy golden body. Ginormous, beautiful apricot and oak in the aroma, some brett. Just lovely, juicy, apricot-driven, mildly woody, low acidity, lightly lactic in a good way, lemony tartness... Oh man... ooooh man... My favorite Cantillon, upgraded. How does it work this well, how?!
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2026
at 17:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2017 bottle. Thin bod, light carbo. Highish sour, but surprisingly leaning heavily into lacto, with only relatively very light acetic and other acids. Quite citrusy citric feeling, even more so than the med-light barnyard. Interesting development here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2026
at 11:28
9.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 9.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle @Ma che siete venuti a fa' (Rome). Dorata, appena velata, schiuma bianca media. Al naso splendide note vinose, di uva bianca, legno, Porto, stalla, cantina. In bocca è vinosa, bilanciata con una leggera dolcezza di uva matura, note di Porto, acidità medio-bassa, molto raffinata. Corpo medio, carbonazione media. Spettacolare.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Ma Che Siete Venuti A Fà
on 15 Mar 2026
at 16:16
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Color: Lightly hazy golden, white head. Aroma: Stable-like funk, grape. Taste: Quite a lot of stable-like funk, fruity grape, grapeskin, tannins, oak wood. Moderate tartness. Medium body, just below average carbonation. Long lasting funky, tannins and grape finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Bierhandel Willems
on 14 Mar 2026
at 20:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at the Loon Factory. Light haze on an orange gold. Loose bubbles of white settle to a slim ring. Nose has oak. Rum. Wheat. Light astringent hop. Anderlecht funk throughout. Taste is light tart. Dry. Minimal amount of bitterness. The 8% feels slightly warming (especially at 10am). Dry light astringent finish. Rum barrel is perfectly pitched and doesn’t overwhelm. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Cantillon
on 27 Feb 2026
at 10:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Bottle at the Loon Factory. 2024 version. Pours a slightly lifeless hazed ginger gold. Any head is short lived. Nose has Anderlecht funk in spades. Tart sharp grape. Then there’s some sweet raisin like notes. Lots of sweaty oak. Pretty unusual. Taste is light tart with a distinct sweetness on the lips. Pretty sticky actually. Feels a tad flat overall. Light tart finish. Tasty gear but perhaps it’s lacking some time sat to liven up.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Cantillon
on 26 Feb 2026
at 15:06