Checkins
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about 1 year ago
Checkins
96
General rating
4.22
Unusually good for an EU west coast. Calls to mind Alpine Nelson. Clean, dry, resinously fruity, integrated bitterness. Yum. Bad Seed is doing awesome stuff.
about 1 year ago
Unfair to be drinking this together with Akairo Momo. Urine, sulphur, acetaldehyde. In a good way?
over 1 year ago
December 2013 Belgian flag label. Incredible. Expansive funk, low acid.
almost 2 years ago
Not sure I’ve had a Cantillon with this low acid before. Lightly minerality but tons of blackcurrant, berries and juiciness. A very atypical Cantillon, which is very good but not at all what you’d expect.
almost 2 years ago
A very different experience to last time I had LPK2018. This one is much spicier: cinnamon, cedar, vanilla, allspice. Fruit is well integrated in that. Very vinous.
about 2 years ago
By a long way the best aged Fou I’ve ever tasted. This is a demonstration how important aging conditions are. Old Fou is known for being sulphuric and urine-y. We drank this against Fou 22 and it won hands down. Never happened for me before.
over 2 years ago
Such a mind bending beer. It’s not at all like other wine beers in that it’s super stonefruity, you could almost not tell that it’s a wine beer except that it’s Radikon they’re working with, and then it makes total sense.
over 2 years ago
Lou Pepe Framboise (2013) Packer
That old raspberry funk. Polarising but I love it. Old wet socks, dusty berry leather, newspaper. Dried redcurrants. No getting around it, the acid is certainly not mild. But every now and then in a beer like this, jts alright.
over 2 years ago
Old socks with mint, rotting fruit, dusty leather. If you have this in your cellar you might want to wait another 10 years and hope it loops back to good again…
over 2 years ago
Surprisingly acetic to be Cantillon. Unripe red berries, nuts and some oak. Acetic acid follows through with a punch on the body. 50N4E has always been a bit of a puzzler for me, and this is not one of my favourite editions.
over 2 years ago
Totally different. It’s amazing what the radikon influence has done to the cantillon, the regular cantillon funk is absent. Stonefruit funk from Radikon is clearly present. Minerally, stonefruit pits, passionfruit. The most atypical Cantillon I’ve had.
almost 3 years ago
Again, super interesting combination with the wine. This time the beer has a lot more wine influence, but it doesn’t work as well. IMO the wine character clashes a bit, and is a lot more harmonic in the wine. Still fantastic.
almost 3 years ago
Blåbær Lambik (Blueberry Lambic) (2013) Packer
Lots of Cantillon funk, mineral character and bitterness, not a whole lot of fruit. Really nice, but Blåbær always leaves me wanting more fruit. Photo by Rune B.
almost 3 years ago
Mega interesting. Drank together with Sophia wine. Lots of the tannins come through in the lambic as one might expect from the production method. I love what the funk adds to the grape lees, it’s an interesting and unique blend that respects both products
almost 3 years ago
Very good to be sure, but hard to put it up against Mia. This is all funk, with a little elderflower note. Some would call it balanced, but I feel like it’s more just hedging in this case. The base beer dominates, though it is all integrated.
about 3 years ago
Interesting to compare with previous tasting notes. Last time the blueberry was up front, this time it’s the raspberry and vanilla dominating. The blueberry contributes with tannins, and dryness, but is really not particularly strong this time.
about 3 years ago
LCI. One of the best non alcoholics out there, if you ask me.
over 3 years ago
Certainly an abundance of apricot, mild cantillon funk. There’s something that’s a bit young in this one that’s not great—rubbery sulphur, urine notes. If you must drink it now, decant for an hour IMO. I’ll be saving the rest of mine for a while.
over 3 years ago
Super fruity, more than I usually expect from cantillon. Very blueberry-ish, but slightly closer to grapes. Surprisingly not funky to be a cantillon, it will be interesting to see how it develops over a couple of years.
over 3 years ago
Crazy. Apple, mushroom, nutty, on the way to seriously old lambic, but still recognizable. Cheers Dag Erik
over 3 years ago
A shockingly good mikkeller. Really nice integration of dust and bourbon spice, both on the lose and the flavour.
over 3 years ago
Very light and clearly focused on being easy drinking. Corn flakes and lemon verbena. Kind of what I needed after gorging myself at Warpigs.
over 3 years ago
Passion Pool Non Alc Shallow Packer
Like, not bad… but it’s also straight passionfruit purée, and it is SO acidic. Burns on the way down. Could be used salad dressing (actually that’s a damn good idea!)
almost 4 years ago
Rosé de Gambrinus (2021) Packer
LCI: So much better than the Cantillon Krieks have been in recent years. Good funk, decent fruit character, it actually makes you think Cantillon.
almost 4 years ago
Rosé de Gambrinus (2020) Packer
Thoroughly decent. Light, minerally cantillon funk, a relaxed raspberry character. Very acidic, but it’s raspberries so it will be. I had low expectations after the mess that is 2020 kriek, but this is good.
almost 4 years ago
Fantastic gueuze with a few extra elements. Minerally, rocky, cherry pit.
almost 4 years ago
Interesting fruit character, wine grapes usually come off a lot more winey—here, if you’d told me this was sour cherries, I’d have believed you. Even has that vanilla/maraschino/almond character to back it up. Minerally base makes it incredible.
almost 4 years ago
Fruit sweetness, fresh berries, earthy blueberry leaves. Super well integrated. The vanilla just binds everything together. Very tame acid, which I really like. Vanilla comes back as it warms. Easily the best 2020 cantillon I’ve had.
about 4 years ago
Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2020) Packer
Little funk, cherry dominated, overcarbed, short. Disappointing.
about 4 years ago
One of the fruitiest Fous in recent years. At the cost of cantillon funk. Simpler, but more fruit. Whether you love this or not will depend on what you like.
over 4 years ago
Weird Weather Non-Alcoholic Hazy IPA Packer
As far as non alcoholic IPAs go, this is outstanding. Even better than Paradiso. Pleasantly surprised.
over 4 years ago