Zwanze 2024 - MMXXIV

Lambic - Gueuze

A little over a year ago, we were in Brittany to submerge a few dozen bottles of Gueuze in the sea as a collaboration with Sylvain, an abalone farmer in Finistère. These bottles are still fermenting at a depth of 10 meters in the company of his charming creatures. Once a month, Sylvain brings up the cages to add various types of algae for the mollusks to feed on. We tasted these same algae in tartare during our visit, and the idea came to us to try them in maceration with Lambic to create a partnership between the brewery and Sylvain's company. After several attempts, it turned out that seaweed, specifically the sea lettuce, gave the best result. The beer is, of course, very different from the fruity, vinous, or floral tastes traditionally found in our products. This Zwanze 2024 exudes aromas of exotic fruits; it has notes of iodine with a slight salinity reminiscent of oysters. In short, a very different beer from what we are used to discovering at Cantillon - a true Zwanze!

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4.5

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valerie

Unique for sure.

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D F

4.75

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Jon H

From yesterday. Tart, citrus, nice bitter and briny background balances everything together

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Filippos Papadopoulos

Strange nose, good taste

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Henrik Carleson

Rather special taste, much fruitier than I expected with some lemon and a rather big dust of peach in nose. Clear prescence of the maritime ingredient with umami and light saltyness.

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Em B

Love the smell of algae. Maybe this lambic would be a good pair with sushi?!

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Łukasz R

Aromat bardzo owocowy. W smaku to już zupełnie inne piwo 😉 Delikatnie dzikie i kwaśne, mineralne, winne, lekko słone, wyraźną goryczką. Nietypowo lambik, ale chyba o to chodziło. Bardzo dobre, ale nie sztos 😉

4.0

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Mees Doesburg

Zwanze met de dames!

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3.75

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Ric Boyer

Zwanze Day 2024, beer #3: The actual Zwanze beer, and very much stuck to the brief. Bizarre and utterly bonkers, this tasted of the sea. Elevated with gouda and celery salt!

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Federico Bruno Palmieri

There might be some decent note from the seaweed, but this beer is totally WRONG. Worst zwanze for me, hands down. The sea note has taken over, and not a clean sea, like the ones in Campania full of illegal dumping with mussels growing everywhere...

1.75

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Philip Chao

Smells like V8 ocean juice, tastes like a higher minerality briney geuze. I could get down with this on a special occasion frequency

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John Latou

Salade d'algues liquide. Bizarre mais quand même Cantillon!

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rulyole

Una latita de mar lámbica. Aroma a algas y mejillones, que continua en boca. Salina, mineral, puntito dulce muy ligero. También ligeramente especiada. Limón, también algo como umami a soja. Nada clásica, muy diferente. Acidez nada punzante, redondeada.

4.25

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Fona1347

Had 1/3, wierd seaweed

3.5

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Erik O

x a lot. Really liked this year’s.

4.5

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WaDouP

Il en restait à J+1 ! Plus prometteuse au nez qu’en bouche, un peu survendue et les avis semblent converger.

3.75

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Jeff Johnisee

Man that nose is AWFUL. if you can get past that its decent and salty

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Joost

Love it!

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Moe Friedman

Briney Good but not mid blowing

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P McT

The nose on this is insane, full on fruite de mer

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Codd Lemmons

Crazy funky saltiness in this year’s batch. Strange, but tasty!

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T idema

Lci #mea culpa

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Adam G

Delicious & briney

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Stephen Parmley

Smells like rotting kelp at the beach and tastes like saline for irrigation. Really interesting and fun thought

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Alan C

Very Briney and seaweed nose, but doesn't taste like it.

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Paweł

Bananowe? Lol

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al w

Vegetal and “chewy”. I know bad description. But I liked it.

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DJ Funk Space

Always a treat. Happy Zwanze!

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Giancarlo Ziino

Ottima come sempre la base cantillon. Naso non pulito con molto minerale. In bocca punta di amarognolo con un sapido che estende molto sul finale rimanendo lungo sul palato e retrolfattivo. Qualcosa che ovviamente ricorda le hoyster stout...

4.0

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Jeff Wilde

Tough one to rate, like nothing I’ve ever had. Very seaweedy, some olive, not too briney. I appreciated it but probably not something I would seek out

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lrckmdrqf

Big pour in Rome at Ma Che Siete Venuti A Fa. Strange funky nose, some saltiness in there as well. Taste has some salt as well combined with geuze sourness and an umami funk. Pleasant beer, unbalanced, but opens up really well over the course of an hour.

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BIG GREC

Thank God this does not taste like it smells.

4.25

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Simon-Pierre T

Spéciale

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Trevor Baumgartner

Stumbled upon Zwanze day.

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Seb G

Forte au nez - iode, banane, mais plutôt douce et légèrement amère en finale.

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Emmanuelle Laj

I think it's an acquired taste, but it's definitely an interesting and complex beer

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Doug A

A day late , but not a dollar short. 😁 Thx Tom & Bernadette, Luke & Candace. 🍻

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Anthony

It smelled like oysters and seaweed but tasted like olives and brine

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Andrew M

Shitting lovely. Aroma is a medley of things but the flavour is grand. All pickley minerals, like chewing on fresh sea belt and ulva. Lil lick of a limpet in there too. Salty lad, proper special x

4.5

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Alex Staneski

Super unique brew, crazy nose. Again I would love to try this with a few years on it. Not very funky, more fruity. Brine notes come out as it warms

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Jamie Burkes

Zwanze at Side Project

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Tom Dearlove

Love the creativity but this was a low mark in a day of amazing beers. Taste was better than the nose.

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Alex Ponce

I can’t get past the nose

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Thomas Smith

Tastes like cum and olives. If that’s your thing I guess you’ll love it.

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Jeff Morris

🍋 🏝️ 😎

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Chris Wu

Didn’t mind this - like a saltier geuze, olives

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Burc Mode

Nah

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Michael M

Happy Zwanze Day, all

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Billy Whorton

This was not good

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Jeremy Mathews

Some people hated the nose, others didn’t like the palate. I thought both were pretty great and evolved nicely through multiple sips. Definitely a one of a kind beer — fruity, briny, beautifully bizarre.

4.75

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