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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.
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7.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
2004(label), 2006(cork) vintage courtesy of Bu11zeye: Poured a deep reddish color lambic with a nice white color bubbly head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of raspberry is dominant with some sour notes as well as some barnyard notes and a weird cough syrup-like finish. Taste is dry with some notes of sour raspberry and some limited acidic notes which I appreciated since I usually find the Cantillon lambic a bit too acid. Full body with some great carbonation. I thought this was really good but I good have done without the weird raspberry syrup-like aftertaste.
Tried from Can on 01 May 2008 at 13:47

8.9/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
Thanks to BDR for sharing. Cloudy yellow/gold. Some carbonation. Sour aroma with apricot. Flavor is very sour, even for a Cantillon. Excellent. Full bodied, extremely flavorful and very sour.
Tried from Can on 27 Apr 2008 at 19:24

7.5/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
37.5 cL bottle, cheers Jeppe! Pours hazy to murky orange with a fully diminished white head. Classic dry Cantillon barnyard aroma with a light citric touch. Flavour is nicely balanced between fruity grapes notes and a solid acidic/citric brett dryness. Tart fruity flavour following with a solid wooden note. Nice citric bite in the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2008 at 10:58

7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
37.5 cL bottle, cheers Jeppe. Pours hazy maber/redish with a fizzy and quickly disappearing pink head. Acidic dry brett aroma with a tart fruit note. Dry woody flavour with a nice grape flavour and very wineous notes. Light acidic dry flavour following. Shivering citric dry finish. Lovely! Very nice fruity lambic, classic Cantillon with a refreshing grape flavour.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Apr 2008 at 13:52

7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Thanks to beastiefan2k for sharing - cloudy straw, nearly still beer - kind of muted funk and acidity in the aroma for a Cantillon - strong woody components in the nose - the oak is also quite strong in the flavor, and the beer doesn’t have that huge, cheek-slapping sourness I expected - still quite funk/barnyardy, though - because of the nature of the base beer, the cognac barrel hasn’t added a lot of it’s own character, but it has softened the beer a great deal, making it smoother and easier to drink than most of their beers - it also allows some of the earthy complexities to come to the fore that the high acidity would otherwise have squashed - nicely done.
Tried from Can on 22 Apr 2008 at 19:16

7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
From miketd and recently also shared by Maxxdaddy, thank to everyone. The color seems a little bit more orange-ish than usual., has no head but a ring lacing. At first I notice a difference compared to the regular, does not seem, to be as acidic in the nose (still strong though), a bit of leafy oak coming through (again different). I get a bit of "heat" on the nose, not that I can directly call it a cognac aroma though. Some marmalade sourness and sweet-less fruit. taste is so subdued for Cantillon (almost at the Loerik level right now). Not at all as mouth puckering as most Cantillon. I get a good amount of earthy sourness but finishes only medium acidic (as opposed to a total onslaught). So easy to drink for such a sour brew. The barrel has really tamed this puppy.
750mL cap and cork (which was slimy and smelled weird), Rodenbach GC smaller tulip.

Matt shared this recently and it isn’t doing well, its very un-gueze-esque and a vegetal aroma, lifeless. it has even a little bit of sweetness in the flavor, some light oxidation, and super weird in general. Not aging well, take some points off the total score.
Tried from Can on 20 Apr 2008 at 22:49

7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle - Cap/Cork: Poured a pinkish white with a off white head. The aroma busted out with sour fruit on the pour, closer sniff gave me the raspberry but still sourness. Taste puckers the lips with loads of sourness and tart, the taste is a burning fruit mostly raspberry.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2008 at 14:40

8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
[i] [b] Bottle, picked this up from Dranken Geers, Gent, consumed 18-04-08 [/i] [/b] Golden moving towards an orangey colour, some haze but any head that was there had disappeared by the time I’d turned around an put another CD on. Has a gentle sweetness ’honeylike’ that counteracts the sourness marvellously. There is a very wine like character to this and it really is quite wonderful, the usual full on sharp and very tart assault on the tastebuds is slapped down big style by the grapes. I feel like I should be laid out sipping a glass of this on a grassy bank whilst a slow moving babbling brook gently provides a nice coolness to the warming sun and with the chattering of birds in the background.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2008 at 02:39

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(Bottle 37,5 cl) Vintage 2007. Pours a very cloudy reddish colour with a small, reddish head. Very sour and delicious Brett aroma with a fruity touch. Medium body, notes of almond and marzipan while the fruitiness is rather downplayed. Lots of sour Brett accents. Acidic, astringent finish yet still amazingly well balanced. 220308
Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2008 at 05:37

7.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at RBESG 07... No idea how i missed entering this one ...Deep Hazy Burgandy ... quite fizzy ... sour sharp fruit ... couldnt detect any blueberries... Just wasnt my thig
Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2008 at 02:58