Bottled. An unclear red beer with a fast disappearing off-white head. The aroma is acidic with strong notes of berries, wine, and tea - as well as a light hoppy note. The flavor is acidic in a wonderful way with notes of acidic grapes, grapefruit, and other unripe fruits. The acidity draws the mouthwater, before a dry end sets in. Lovely. Sampled this deep down in the cellar of Akkurat October 2005, graciously served by the bars owner Sten - thank you so much!!

Tap at the HDG. Poured into a tulip glass (the kind meant for girlie drinks with small umbrellas). Color is rose pink, with orange and copper aspects. Aroma is extremely sour, tart, and acidic, more so than any bottle I have had. Tickles the nostrils. If you can keep your nose in the glass long enough there is a raspberry aroma with a sweetness that resembles wild strawberries. Taste is a bit different, the "strawberry" sweetness is gone, replaced with just an extreme raspberry tartness. Now it tickles the tonsils. Leaves the signature acidic Cantillon aftertaste.

The fun part was I got to take sips of this in between sips of the Southampton Imperial Stout. I was tempted to blend.

Tap at the Belgian Room - I stepped away from the festivities at the HDG strong ale fest, and what should I find but this gem on tap - I figured, "if any beer will wake up my palate after several hours of strong ale abuse, it’s this beer" - I was, of course, quite right - your pretty standard Cantillon aroma (barnyardy funk and tarttarttart fruits), but of course, for Cantillon, standard = fantastic - sourness that hits you right in the cheeks, making those salivary glands go crazy, whether you want them to or not - a fruitiness that isn’t distinctly raspberry, but is very earth and tart (I taste seeds and skins, people) - I’m too lazy to write more - I pretty much stopped analyzing it after two sips and just sat there saying "mmmmm" to myself - as the others around me kept talking, I slipped ever deeper into lambic-induced euphoria.

First rating(Bottle, looks about 75 cl, thanks omhper!) Bottled 2003. Shady redish brown color, small disapearing pink head. Lambic and gueuze acidic spontaneous fermented scent. Stables and grass. Grassy sour spritzy taste with a metallic aftertaste. Spritzy mouthfeel. Some bitter astringent mouth puckering feel, might be from the wine? Also some dry feeling, oak?8/3/8/3/16=3.8RerateBottled 2006 compared side by side with bottled 2007. Both on 75 cl bottles, both BB 12/2009.On March 16, 2009 2006 (Bottled 25 OCT 06) = Hazy grape color, smallish apricot to pink head. Sloe (blackthorn?), mild acidic, sweetened unripe (green) red currants scent. Sour, red berries, grape peel taste. Smooth mouthfeel, no bitterness. acidic and red berries aftertaste, also not ripe red currants. 7/4/8/4/16=3.9 2007 (Bottled 22 NOV 07) = Hazy grape red color, smallish pink head. Sour, acidic, automn forrest, fruity, red currant scent. acidic to sour, red currants when not quite ripe (green), lemon, some blueberry taste. Mix of smooth and spritzy mouthfeel. No bitternes I can sense. Acidic aftertaste. Very nice. 8/4/8/4/17=4.1Rerate75 cl bottle thanks to Nisse666! Sampled on March 8, 2012Hazy inside of blueberry color, pink head. Grape, oak, sour scent. Sour, metallic, grape taste. Very sour aftertaste, and gut wrenching. Medium mouthfeel, very low bitterness.6/4/7/3/14=3.4Rerate75 cl bottle thanks to Clyx! Purchased in Denmark. Label statets 37.5 cl, guess they make mistakes? Cork printed with 2005, sampled on August 11, 2012Murky red color, pink head. Acidic, lactic, sour, funky, some berry scent. Acidic, sour, green apples, fruity, tart, biting on lemon taste. Mouthpuckering sour, dry mouthfeel, very low bitterness. Sour gut feeling.7/3/8/4/15=3.7