Hop cat

Scarabée

Cantillon through and through. Tart just right, with a wonderfully chewy grape aroma. Very good and very dangerous.

Geuze (2024)

Tap. Young and powerful.

Saint Lamvinus (2022)

Well, what would you expect? A very good beer. I am not marking it down due to the pub it was served in - you cannot really enjoy a beer in a sports pub. Cantillon however.

Magic Lambic (2023)

Bottled 26 May 2023 so eight months in the bottle. Good. Not overly tart thanks to vanilla, slightly wooden (good here, not good in a NEIPA) with dry red fruit. Solid fun, not full extravaganza.

Fou’ Foune (2023)

Bottled August 17, 2023. It is this time of the year again.

Kriek Mariage Parfait (2020)

Dry solid basic Kriek. Well made, nothing fancy.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

I am down to my last dozen or so. Three years in the bottle. Quite tart. Flawless fruit.

Rosé de Gambrinus

Tap. Oh well. Floral, of course. But there is no debate: This is very close to perfection.

Gueuze 100% Lambic Bio

From tap. Faultless. Nota bene: Do not go there to eat.

Cuvée Saint-Gilloise (Champions) (2023)

Bottled seven months ago (15 February 2023). Very composed. Fun.

Fou’ Foune (2023)

Bottled less than a month ago (21 August 2023). Faultless.

Magic Lambic (2023)

Could be worse.

Carignan (2022)

5 October 2022. Good god.

Barbera (2022)

Very dry, more wine than lambic. Full bodied, with little funk. Hugely elegant. I will saw it off in a few minutes. Bottled 11 February 2022.

Burst

Only a few years ago one would have become very excited by this. Solid body, hoppy fruit and malts both present. Slightly thin though.

Drogone Lambic (2022)

It is outstandingly elegant.

Classic Gueuze (2022)

Draft. Oh well. Everything is there, just not enough of it. Strangely tame.

Sang Bleu (2023)

Draft. This takes some time of getting used to. Very unusual, very interesting. Still young. I have a bottle of this in my secret cellar and look forward to opening it in ten years or so.

Heated Seats

Good easy fruit but a bit grainy.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

Bottled in May 2020. Excellent fruit but quite tart. Quite very tart. The glass is 100 years old this year. It was part of the dowry of my great-grandmother.

SpontanCherry Frederiksdal (2021)

Mikkeller Kriek. I think we can work with this. Very smooth, dark cherry skin, but no horse and no farmyard. Only cherry kriek.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

Tart indeed. Fruit is slowly mellowing. 12 bottles left.

HORAL's Oude Geuze Mega Blend (2021)

Christmas dinner. Tomato soup, scottish salmon with potato salad, roast apple. All is well.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

I should drink them before they become old, or shouldn't I?

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

May 2020 bottle directly from the brewery. Massive fruit, as it should be.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

May 2020 bottle. From the between lockdowns trip to Brussels last year. It is ageing gracefully. Slightly tart but just so, with excellent fruit. This is not becoming worse.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

From the between-lockdowns trip to Brussels last year. Good.

The Great Square of Pegasus

Motueka, El Dorado and Idaho 7. Five weeks old. It smells and it tastes just like a 8 % abv DIPA should smell and taste. A little bit of unwelcome wheat and some even less welcome wood appears. But it works nonetheless.

Hop Opera

Cascade, Simcoe and Mosaic. No abv on the can but it is rumoured to be 9 %. For that abv it is not thick enough while it is quite thick, not fruity enough while it is quite fruity.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

Bottled on 14th of May. This is how you do it. Young and powerful. More cherry skin than cherry, dark and thick fruit. Will age some but drink most.

Saint Lamvinus (2019)

Like a turbot, compared to 3fonteinen's cod. Superbly restrained and elegant. Bottled December 2019.

Vigneronne (2019)

Subtle and elegant. Since 2019, Cantillon ages on Viognier, not Muscat anymore.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

Deepest darkest cherries. Intense flavour that lingers for a long time. From the mad dash to Brussels once travel restrictions had been lifted in summer.

Oude Kriek Boon (2017)

After three years in the bottle it is very composed. Sour just so, fruity just so. This is a solid Kriek.

Oude Geuze Boon à l'Ancienne 2017-2018

Flowers and wood. Very easy drinking despite the quite high abv. Sour just so. Good.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

Bottled seven months ago. Young and powerful. Velvety fruit. Lots of it.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2019)

It is cold and dark outside, so I am bringing out the stouts. Massive chocolate and bourbon barrel. Slightly dry and dusty on the palate.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

Three and a half months since borders were opened and I was able to pick this up in Brussels. As of today, Brussels is no-go zone again. What a miserable day.

Traverse the Polyverse

On the wheaty side of fruity. Substantial abv. Not dry, not bitter.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020)

I need to lift my spirits. May 14th bottle.