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.
7/10
Quite sour, funky smell, slightly complex taste without much aftertaste, overall above average and a bit unusual
Tried
from Draft
at
Muted Horn
on 19 Sep 2025
at 18:08
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
750 ml corked bottle. Pours hazy red with a one+ finger reddish-white head that slowly fades. Aroma is berries, funk, sex, floral. Taste is highly sour (8/10) with flavors like the aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Pilgrim's Market
on 14 Sep 2025
at 06:30
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Last Bottle for sale on this day at Cantillon pre Eurostar, 12th September 2025. Bottled October 2024. Pours a pretty pink. Aroma is vineous, fruity,, funky, earthy, musty. Taste is tart, grapes and fruit, light musty, sour, complex, wood, fruit skins. Enjoyable, surprised I had not had this before.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2025
at 13:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cloudy pale amber, minimal head of low retention. Pale malt, lemon, toasted notes, basement, vinegar, autumn leaves, leather, hay, grass. Bone dry. Pretty sour, light ending & aftertaste bitterness. Flat carbonation. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 20:51
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at Cantillon, 11th September 2025. Things the version bottled January 2024. Pours a light straw colour, slightly pink and flat. Aroma is musty, grapes, earthy, minerals, tart fruit. Taste is complex, tart fruits, lots of wood, dry, musty; grapes, delicate mouth feel, soft with a long tart and pleasing linger in the finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 13:03
8.2/10
Elegant floral notes up front, followed by some tangerine and a layered minerality. Sharp funk. Lingering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2025
at 22:09
8/10
Clean, dry. Farmyard funk. Very low fruit. Woodsy. Low carb.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2025
at 20:33
9.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Rød klar med lys rosa skum. Lukterblåbær, svovel, fat og vanilje. Fruktig og sur. Smaker blåbær, vanilje og bæreddik. Lang.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Cantillon
on 05 Sep 2025
at 12:13
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Mørk rød uklar med lys rosa skum. Lukter blåbær og noe bringebær. Fruktig, noe sur. Smaker blåbær, trevirke og noe eddik.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Cantillon
on 05 Sep 2025
at 12:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lys gul noe tåkete med hvitt skum. Lukter druer og trevirke. Smaker grapefrukt, fat og drueskall. Middels lang.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brasserie Cantillon
on 05 Sep 2025
at 11:32