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.
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
750ml bottle. Cherry red with a short-lived pink tinged head. Tart fruit, acidic aroma with plenty of farmyard. The flavour had masses of tart fruit with a dry, acidic finish. Very enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2007
at 10:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750ml bottle. Cloudy pale gold colour with a large off-white head. Powerful aroma of sour green fruit, lemons and the farmyard. The flavour was acidic, with plenty of tart fruit and a mouth puckering finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2007
at 10:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ The Rake, Borough. Pours a pinkish reddish color with a pinkish white head. Fruity tart raspberry aroma. Tart fruity and sour raspberry flavor. Fruity tart finish with a long aftertaste of raspberries.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2007
at 08:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
75 cL bottle, thanks to Thomas_E. Pours hazy yellow with a little lacing head. Slight classic geuze aroma but more mellow and with a slight peppery note. Quite citric to acidic flavour, dry and fruity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2007
at 03:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled 0,75 ltr, vintage 2000 @Akkurat
Deep cherry red color, small white head. Semi-sour fruity rasberry aroma. Sour Cantillon, extremely fruity mouth-drying rasberry flavor. Sour fruity aftertaste. Another quality lambic from Cantillon. 7 yrs ageing hasn’t changed this any worse.
Deep cherry red color, small white head. Semi-sour fruity rasberry aroma. Sour Cantillon, extremely fruity mouth-drying rasberry flavor. Sour fruity aftertaste. Another quality lambic from Cantillon. 7 yrs ageing hasn’t changed this any worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2007
at 15:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Odense Tasting: Hazy reddish with a pink head. What impressed me most about this was the high drinkability. Fruity cherry/raspberry/blueberry - both sour & sweet. Funky fresh. Bit my cheek. Pleasant berries & vinegar. Tasty! Bottle @ Too many geuze’s only one toilet, Ulfborg 2012. 2011 Edition: Not overly aggressive. Dry and crisp. Drinkable. Berries, barnyard and vagu manuer. Sweet Jam. 4,0 again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2007
at 07:58
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of Thomas_E. Slightly hazy, pale golden with a small, white head. There’s a vague, tart Brett nose. Medium body - well, perhaps even a little watery, only moderately sour although you do indeed sense the usual Brett and horse blanket characteristics. Quite OK, but not as complex as blended Gueuzes. 280907
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2007
at 04:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled@Akkurat. Rubyish red colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is big fruits and red berries along with bigtime sourness. Flavour is sourness, berries and some slight hints of wood. Pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2007
at 23:57
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Predictably awesome like everything Cantillon produces. Sour, barnyard aroma, acidic, and promising a sour flavor that I’m anxious for. Very light sugar in the flavor, more mostly sour, and abundant Belgian yeast giving a barnyard and horseblanket character. Cloudy orange color.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Sep 2007
at 18:56
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sunny orange colour with small yellowish head, gone fast. Fruity, dry lambic nose, aroma of unripe kiwifruit, green grapes, horseblanket. Very raw fruit acids and lactic acid (point of acetic as well, but very restrained). I get a bit of liqueur, but as to which - Bénédictine? Very earthy flavours, fresh, not quite ripe berries. More tart, you die. HBL-people - sorry. I had the try-out, and didn’t completely like it - that was just too raw. This one is excellent, now.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2007
at 01:08