Zwanze 2021 - Parasol

Lambic - Fruit

Here at Cantillon, we’re no strangers to experimentation. In the early 50’s, Paul Cantillon tried blending Lambic and oranges. The result wasn’t exactly spectacular. The refermentation in the bottles was so strong, that the brewery workers at the time were forced to sprint past the bottles through the cellar in order to avoid being hit by popping corks and drenched in beer. Our grandfather Marcel Cantillon loved this story, and often loved to tell it to us as children. So 70 years later, inspired by our great-grandfather, we’ve made a special blend of Lambic and citrus (a blend featuring mostly oranges) in his honor. The acidity of the beer and the fruit and the freshness of the citrus in contrast to the bitterness of their zests makes for a particularly thirst-quenching Zwanze. The name Parasol will remind my fellow Belgians of a certain age of the orange-flavored soft-drink of the same name we used to drink back in the day.

ABV

5.0

Rating

4.142

Rating count

3,447

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Carlos

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Lion

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Andrew Campbell

Sunday

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threedaggers

Nice and crispy

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Ah ça oui ça goûte les agrumes. Mono dimensionnel mais pintable !

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Yotam Bar-natan

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Enric Gallart

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Drew Mathews

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Rebecca G.

4.5

Tribaun

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Andy Cummings

Lots of orange and earthy flavours

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Cork & Cage

over 3 years ago

Harry Starling

Orange peel explosion!

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Malorie Ausserdorfer

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Gina Schinella

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Willem U.

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Kim Lapointe

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Rene Laporte

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Jan Muska

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Philip G.

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Johan

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Emil B

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Anton Arbring

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Simen A.

Vaskemiddel

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Axel S.

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Selma G.

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over 3 years ago

Javier AM

Sin ser mi estilo preferido reconozco que está buena. Mucha naranja, ácida y amarga pero se bebe muy fácil. De trago medio-largo.

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Cierzo Brewing Co.

over 3 years ago

chris sellar

3.5

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over 3 years ago

Ryan R.

Fucking love this. LCI

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over 3 years ago

I get more lemon than orange, but still pretty amazing

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LCI. Did not like it

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Biercafé Au Trappiste

over 3 years ago

Gary N.

Orange is legit!

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de Garde Brewing

over 3 years ago

Brian W

Cantillon day green bench

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over 3 years ago

Bill Vogel

From the last two weeks- forgot about this. Lots of oranges, maybe some lime or kumquats? Interesting to try

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over 3 years ago

Ashley H.

Zwanze 2021 🍊 *9/25/21*

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Shaun

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Yerba Mate

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Derek Thorn

From Zwanze Day at Moeder Lambic, 9/25.

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Becky

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Pedro G.

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Trent

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Tom Vilenius

+3.75 a little better from bottle.

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over 3 years ago

Paul K

Citrus rind, herbal, floral. Obviously, sour. Interesting, complex, and rare, but I would take something like a Fou'Foune over this any day.

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over 3 years ago

Dave Modugno

some much citrus

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Brian A.

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Brian A.

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Adnan Abdulally

Waaaay better than on tap at zwanze. Not sulfuric.

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over 3 years ago

Kris De Meester

Much better than the comments I heard so far. Outspoken agrumes, blood orange. Nice colour.

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over 3 years ago

Adri Roaster

🚀🚀🚀

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Homo Sibaris

over 3 years ago

Chris Badolato

4.4-4.5 easy drinking and oh so tasty

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over 3 years ago

Carlos 'Veio' Lima

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over 3 years ago

Brick

Well well, first draft Zwanze beer after all. Tangerine perfume cefdinir nectar tonic. As others have mentioned, this would work great in a cocktail ie. Old fashioned, or any egg white fizz.

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Craft Wine & Beer

over 3 years ago

David B.

4.5

Urban Roots Brewing & Smokehouse

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Hartley S

LCI

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The Masonry

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Bojan Grdinic

Interesting stuff.

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over 3 years ago

Kent Wang

No particular ftuit

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N C

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over 3 years ago

Serra Alink

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Ash

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Conor A.

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Sebs N.

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Diego Alvarado

Very interesting. Shocked the keg last this long.

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Chinaski Lavapiés

over 3 years ago

Yulia & Rachard =)

Упс, потеряли виновника торжества) но ничего, тут вещь явно не по сезону, такое летом да в жару, возможно будет прям ок, но молодым воспринимается как что-то химозное и коктейльное...горчинка на послевкусие и куча цедры. С натяжкой

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over 3 years ago

Orangey and herby (mint? Sage?). Great.

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The Porter Beer Bar

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Jason H.

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JOSE MANUEL

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JOSE MANUEL

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Ryan

Tasty!

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The Porter Beer Bar

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Laulo

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over 3 years ago

Chad Faber

Plenty of citrus on the nose and drinks about how I’d expect it. Orange does linger around a bit too. Seems like this has some modern inspiration but also heard that this is inspired by a beer from here 70 yrs ago w fruit that refermented and popped corks

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Brasserie Cantillon Brouwerij (Cantillon - Brouwerij en Brussels Museum van de Geuze)

over 3 years ago

Ryan Abad

4.5

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over 3 years ago

Simon Broderick

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over 3 years ago

Marco Mammoli