Cuvée Saint-Gilloise (Champions)

Lambic - Traditional

A new brew concocted by Jean Van Roy to celebrate the 2003-2004 Division III title for the local Union St. Gilles football team and its upgrade to Division II. Cuvee des Champions is not a traditional ’gueuze,’ in that it is made from only two year-old 2001 lambic, not from a blend of older and younger lambics. It is also dry-hopped in the cask for three weeks with fresh Styrian Goldings hops. Re-fermentation in the bottle is achieved with the addition of a small amount of candi sugar.

ABV

5.0

Rating

4.257

Rating count

18,266

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Ricardo P.

Birthday 🥳 beer

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Simon Rioux

Pamplemousse, orange. Un peu fromagée. Acidité citrique. Pas la plus typique des Cantillon, mais c'est quand même très bon!

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David H.

Agréablement surpris. Bulle d’une finesse exceptionnelle. Funk bien balancé avec note de sésame grillé, de barrique et de pain au levain. Peu acide, très balancé. Très sèche.

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Adam H.

Dry, slightly acidic but with a lovely balanced funk to it. A proper celebration beer!

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Jordi Alonso

Lime, light ferruginous vinegary scent, cianide -peach stone- aromas. Tart, sulphury lime flavour; soot, welding spark, faint tannic grape skin...

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Seba Espejo

Fondo que recuerda damascos deshidratados

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Tom Beck

Sehr ausgewogen

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Ashis

What a wonderful lambic. Peaches and lots of funk almost vinegar-ish. Candied sugars with a lovely hop profile coz of the dry hopping. Makes me pucker but I'm thoroughly enjoying this

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Daryle von Nauheim

Nice sour...enjoyed by everyone in the group. Just the right amount of funk/sour.

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lee s.

I love the hops used in Gilloise. Dry and funky. Not managed to get this one before. I know back in 2012 when I had my first lambic as I began my sour and spontan adventures I was on to something I would have to find more of.

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Phil Dethier

Cuvée automnale et de circonstance

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Dan Feeney

Wonderfully tart, quite dry, and a nice crispness. Another fantastic one from Cantillon, never seen this one before.

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Seigneur Sancho

Better with cheese crust

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X Æ A-Xii

Welcome home my guy❤️ and thanx u

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Dyzsf Goetz

泡沫丰富较持久,草本香气,入口更柔和了,一点尖酸的感觉都没有,回味悠长。

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Xavi Muñoz

BBF 2021

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Nick Widdows

Like a sour, slightly peppery grape must. My Cantillon cherry is popped!

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Christoffer Askhøj

Citrusy, tart, sur, frisk og bare skide lækker. Mere frisk end den normale gueuze.

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Kenji Penot

Merci Arthur S. 🙏🏻

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Brian Hewitt

Overripe peach, mint, floral dill, earth, mushroom, funk. Madness. I’m not even a big mint fan, but that fresh herbal touch is doing it for me here.

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Kev Doyle

It is absolutely stunning. The flavour is so beautiful and balanced. Have this with cheese!

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max aittokoski

Nice nice, bone dry, fizzy bright, nicely funky, grapefruity

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M C

Allez L’Union!

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florian

Antwerpen 0 Saint Gilloise 2.

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