Brasserie Cantillon
Microbrewery
in Anderlecht,
Brussels Capital Region,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Brasserie Cantillon
Established in 1900
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.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Iris from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Light-amber, little white head, unstable. Nose gives lambic with fresh hops and cheesy odour of old hops. Plus something fruity, and hard exotic wood, wetted. Taste is fruity, a subdued bitterness, then very outspoken lactic sourness. Palate finishes completely like old lambic. No more hops. Third version. Every new one seems better. The dry hopping with extra hops, this time, has marvellously complexed the beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
Rosy-speckled orange-gold. Slight white head. Nose of muscatgrape, malonate, "Muscat de Samos". Sour taste but with typical muscat-background, very outspoken. Sharp finish. Grapes seem to give a nice oily perfume overlying the beer, like fondue-oil. Just superb. One of my favourites.
caesar (10859) reviewed Kriek from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Very nice kriek. Extremely sour and tart, a real jaw-cracker. Not too sweet, which i like. But it's not as soft and perfectly balanced as some other krieks, according to my perfection. Longlasting palate, very nice.
omhper (44378) reviewed Vigneronne ( - 2019 ) from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sampled draught at Akurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pale orange. Acidic, just like the regular gueuze, but also with a big punch of tannines and muscat grapes The grapes only add a hint of fruitiness. The draught version seem more balanced than the bottled and adds a bit of honey. Still, this is sour like pure acid, and I love it (even if my stomach does not...)
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Colour: golden with orangey shine; thick, white head, quite even, slowly disappearing; beer continues fine, pearly bubbling. Nose: Woody, tart (yes - even in the nose), lemony, lemon-flower or lemon-scented (dry) tea; slightly sulphury. Taste: tart, drying, tannins. Citrus zest, green apples, meaty flavour too. Fades ever so gently. Aftertaste: Dry tartness keeps lingering. Strange impression of sweetness appears, probably due to disappearance of acids in the mouth - orange marmalade without the sticky sweetness. Mouthfeel: Absolutely dry (tannins) effect on front teeth and tongue. Slight burning throat effect. It is impressive how active this beer is, as composed from old (2yr.) lambics only.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Soleil de Minuit from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Colour: hazy orange; thick wild head, nearly immediately gone. Nose consists of a lesser fruitexplosion. I suppose it are cloudberries, but it makes me think of pineapple, or very sweet rosy grapefruit. Horseblanket is there as well, as well as something like VERY fresh, living seafood. Taste comes with the Cantillon acid-bite, surrounding an astounding fruity taste. Rosy grapefruit comes to mind again. The fruityness definitely mellows the acidity. My wife, however speaks about decaying and oxydizing vegetable matter... There is some throat-burn, so quite some acids. Refreshing, too. No new aftertaste, just the aromas of the fruit, esters and fruitacids lingering on. A rare one, this, to be consumed with moderation and reverence.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Lou Pepe Framboise from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Note: '99 means released now. Colour: unbelievable deep cherry-red. When yeast mixes in, slight brown haze. Very little head (fruitacids and kernelcontents), deep rosy-red, but fast disappearing. Nose: as a bucket of freshly plucked raspberries - only intenser. Slight nose of wet wood at the back. Also a waft of wet chalk on a blackboard. Taste: taste as from wild raspberries, but more subdued, with heavier wooden overtones. First impression, surprisingly, as from a southern Europe landwine, slightly diluted with water. Extremely refreshing. Very deep retronasal flavour, not aggressive, sourness mainly fruit acids. Hints of lactic acid and acetic acid, but below identification threshold. Aftertaste: raspberries, lingering on and on, tart. Mouthfeel: rather sharp, very dry but not aggressively so. Lou Pepe ('Gramps' in Langue d'Oc, Occitane) stands for gueuze, kriek or framboise made exclusively with 2 year old lambics, preferably on pipes, used before only for wine (Bordeaux). Added is a sugary liqueur, instead of young lambic for secondary fermentation. Also, the content of fruit per barrel is 50% higher than the 'ordinary' Framboise. This is truly a world classic.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Kriek from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Sample is very young. usually kriek is supposed to be best, then. Colour is deep burgundy red, nearly purple. No head. Smell as from juicy (over)ripe cherries, winey. Taste even more vineous, with clearly still some fermentable fruitsugars there - it resemble a young wine if anything. There is an acetic tang, however, making it very sour. In the mouthfeel this gives an outspoken drying-out effect, tannins rule and the fruit goes on and on in the aftertaste.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Fou' Foune from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Colour of orangey-gold, slight haze. Nose gives some smoke, a fruity type that is indeed apricot-like, above the classical wet-wood, horseblanket smell. In the taste however, no apricot or peach, rather something spicey, meaty even. If any fruit would come to the fore, I'd say physalis ("pineapple-cherry"). Lots of lactic acid, al little acetic. Mouthfeel is velvety (quite appropriate), but with a sharp finish. JP Van Roy apologisez: "It isn't traditional, but it is pleasing." He's right.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
One of the last 1999 bottles at the brewery - an exceptional, JP Van Roy says. He isn't far wrong. Golden colour, no head (3 yr. old lambic!). Nose of aged oak wood, of old leatherbound books in an antiquariat and of wild mushrooms. taste gives more wood, tannines, unbelievable but there is some unfermented thing underneath and sherrywood casks. The finish is made up by all the volatiles from the above retreating. A dream of a beer...
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