Score
7.33
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Bottle. Cloudy yellow pour with a foamy white head. Whoa, crazy nose. It’s a crazy wood and botanical bouquet. Taste follow suit with loads botanical and pickle juice that dominate the lambic. Average body and mouthfeel.
quintessence 2016
Bottle @ Moeder Lambic Original. Pours light hazy dark orange with a small white head. Notes of old wet woody cellar, herbs, tannins, oaky, citrus. Aged terribly (or has always been, who knows)
05-05-16 // sample at Cantillon Quintessence 2015. The woodruff gives this gueuze a nice spicy, flowery twist. Wood notes aswell. Nice experiment.
Fruchtig säuerlicher Antrunk. Trockene Waldmeister Noten, minimal herb, spritzig, würzig. Spritzig, abnehmende Säure. 9/9/10/9//9
Quintessence 2016. Vintage 2010. Hazy golden with thin white head. Very strong vegetal/herbal "woodruff" presence, hay, grapes. Medium sour, quite salty, dense minerallike. Medium body, soft carbonation. Strong flavors.
Bottle decanted at Cantillon during Quintessence. Hazy light golden with bubbly white head. Massive woodruff, dusty wood, dried twigs, light vinegar and lemon. Medium sour and light bitter. Medium bodied. Even after six years the woodruff is very strong, but the sourness balances it quite a bit.
Pours unclear blonde , small white head. Smell is very herbal , ’madeliefjes’ floral. Taste is Sharp , dry , sour , very floral .
THANKS! to Mathieu87 & PriorL. 750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Nog-een-half-jaar-tot-de-volgende-EBT”. This beer redefines unique. Anyone who doesn’t consider Cantillon one of the most experimental & unique breweries in the world clearly hasn’t tried many of their beers. I honestly do not even know how to describe this one. Pours a hazy orange with lush white head. Gorgeous. Smell is vegetables, bitter, funk, fennel, celery & things that I cannot describe. Taste is like a totally extreme version of super-fresh Mamouche. I cannot properly describe the taste but starts sweet with coconut milk, sour cabbage, fennel, elder flowers, herbal, sweet vanilla, oak, roots. Taste phenomenal as contradictory as those tastes sound. Lively body. Fitting tad higher carbonation.
Good dense white head, quite stable for lambic, over copperish coloured beer. Roots, earthy, vegetable, flowery; as carrot freshly pulled out of the soil. Earthy, vegetable, faintly cocos/copra; cocos’milk’. Dry, well-attenuated, light body, quite spritzy. Much better than it sounds. Utterly un-characteristic Cantillon. Extra point for the innovation. No doubt the Cantillon with the least lambic character.