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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Rosey-orangey colour with aged example. Younger is darker-red. Good rosy head for a fruit lambic. Some cork in the nose, not really problematic, wet wood, sulphur, "horse-blanket". With ageing, less fruit - still tart fruitaroma, difficult to pinpoint exact kind: grapes are possible, raspberry too. In finsh first someting refreshing lemony, then again some cork. Fruitaroma lingers on but sharpish finish. A must for the amateurs of the style.
omhper (44378) reviewed Fou' Foune from Brasserie Cantillon 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dark yellow, hazy, no head. Aroma of citric acid. Lightly fruity, mostlt sour. Firm maltiness, some apricot and syrup in the finish. But still - this is hardcore lambic, and just on the border of what my stomach can possibly accept.
omhper (44378) reviewed Faro from Brasserie Cantillon 23 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dark orange, hazy. Fruity lactic vinegar aroma. Complex with balanced acidity. Usually faro is just sweet and dumbed down. but Cantillon is so sour to start with that their faro is like other traditional brouwers lambic. Really good!
Oakes (33097) reviewed Vigneronne ( - 2019 ) from Brasserie Cantillon 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Similar to the Gueuze, not surprisingly differentiated by a slight sweetness from the grapes. A little bit more effervescent, too (had them side-by-side at the brewery). Otherwise it's pretty much your everyday Cantillon lambic glory.
Cantillon Cuvee de 9 Nations 1991, sampled May 2004: Hazy golden colour. Disappearing white head. Earthy, musty, cheesy aroma (like manchego, sweat and cabrales rind). Full body. Toasty notes, depth of sourness, lemon juice, slightly nutty. Slightly sweet notes in the background. Fantastic balance, but but not much grape. Ar 9, Ap 4, Fl 9, P 5, O 18 = 4.5
Oakes (33097) reviewed Iris from Brasserie Cantillon 23 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Brown-tinted orange; big aroma - wood, slightly toasted hops, sour apple - typical Cantillon for the most part; starts off like any quality gueuze, fairly complex though a tad sweeter than other non-fruited Cantillons. It’s the finish that gets me. Bitter. Astringent. Unpleasant. I understand that the hops are the gimmick of this beer, but to me the finish just clashed with everything else and ruined it. Experiments fail sometimes - that’s life.
fiulijn (28444) reviewed Loerik from Brasserie Cantillon 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2009-03-26, courtesy of Jacob (Hildigöltur), bottled in 1998, 11+ years old, 9-4-8-4-17=42
Cloudy light amber color, with small head. Wonderful aroma, citrusy, with light grapefruit and lemon, delicate Bretts, cellar smells, lightly cheesy and woody. Smooth mouthfeel, the typical Cantillon aggressiveness has been smoothered by the age, there is still a good sourness, decisive astringency, a bit woody, with citrus fruits (orange peels). The final is long, astringent, a bit sour and fruity, with more grapefruit. Wonderful.
2002-09-18, bottled in 1998, 4+ years old, 9-4-7-4-15=39
Beautiful golden colour, bright; not excessively carbonated, but anyway it has half inch of creamy head.
Wonderful aroma, sour and dry, fruity if possible: citrus fruits, pink grapefruit, cassis.
It’s smoother and less astringent than her sisters, the taste is not complete and complex as the aroma; pretty monodirectional, the leading flavour is similar to lemon juice, but less sour, adjusted by a light woodyness.
It’s less interesting than other Cantillon’s, but perfectly enjoyable for any sour-beer addicted out there. I had it with Swiss black bread, butter and Alaskan smoked salmon: the marriage was perfect for my taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Orange golden color, with a very quick disappearing head. Oaky aroma, sour gueuze. Sour taste, as the girardin. IMO the Boon Gueuze was better than those oak-conditioned gueuzes as Girardin and Cantillon.
omhper (44378) reviewed Rosé de Gambrinus from Brasserie Cantillon 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Very authentic lambic, which means really sour. Cocktail berry red. Not much raspberry flavour at all, just a slight hint. It's good, but just too sour for me to fully enjoy, as I react physically to the sourness - my cheeks contract, and my throat and stomach burns.
Earlier Rating: 4/17/2002 Total Score: 3.7
Sampled draught. Clear red. Acidic nose with a tart raspberry aroma. Very dry, the raspberry flavour is well balanced and not overpowering the subtlety flavurs of the gueuze. Bordering on being too acidic for me.
omhper (44378) reviewed Lou Pepe Gueuze from Brasserie Cantillon 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
1999 version. Golden coloured. Acidic aroma. Oaky with balanced acidity and a surpring hint oh honey sweetness. Sparkling mouthfeel. Bears some resemblance to a very dry well wooded white wine.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Served form tap. Pale amber coloured, hazy. Acidic nose. Tart, champagne like. Refreshing and complex. th edruaght version appears more mellow than the bottled.
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