Brasserie Cantillon Brabantiae (2016)

Brabantiae (2016)
(Batch of Brabantiae)

 

Brasserie Cantillon in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production
Score
7.75
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 58
*** Tap Only *** This is the 2016 entry , which was served on draft only at Quitessence 2018. Brabantiae is a gueuze that was finished in Port wine barrels, and made to honor the Belgian King Baudouin (7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993). It was first released for the Koningsfeesten (King's Celebrations) in 1991.
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Draft @ Quintessence 2018. Pours clear golden, still. Notes of sweet port, grapes, cheesy funk, lightly hay-ish and leathery, citrussy, orange peel, lightly sulfuric. Can't wait to see the bottles of this!

Tried from Draft on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

At Quintessence 2018. Clear golden color with no head. Malty and yeasty aroma, bread, caramel, alcohol, wood, funky barnyard, leather, light fruity. Sweet and light acidic taste. Medium oily body with soft cabonation

Tried on 29 May 2018 at 18:37


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Brabantiae pours clear, darker blonde. No real head. Smell is funky, wood, mild port. T is full, very mellow , port, intense oak and funk. Reasonable tartness .

Tried on 14 May 2018 at 15:21


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

At Quintessence. Aroma is stables, pigs, funk, port indeed. Body is medium and flat, lots of Lambic funk, low port flavours. Far from typical Cantillon, but good for unblended. Softly sour, but very lasting at it. Good.

Tried from Can on 08 May 2018 at 17:03


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Säuerlicher, minimal rauchiger Beginn. Die Säure steigt deutlich an, geringfügig karbonisiert, spritzig. Dunkel holzig-würzig, etwas bitter, vollmundig. Gut. 10/9/11/9//10

Tried on 07 May 2018 at 06:16


9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Sample at Quintessence 2018. Clear golden with white head. Cheesy and mineral funk, loads of wet wood, light citrus. Quite a bit of port presence. Very nice.

Tried on 04 May 2018 at 20:52


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft @ Quintessence 2018. Finalement, le St Graal dont tant parle. Autant dire que les locaux peuvent quasi déjà oublier d'avoir une chance d'obtenir une bouteille, sil elle venait à sortir, ou alors surement la racheter à un américain. Le tout est doré oscillant sur le côté paille, pas de col. Palais offre un bouquet fin tannique, le Porto, sans être indiqué et le savoir, est très minimaliste mis une certaine douceur contrebalance l'habituel bouquet funk de lambic. Palais est complètement plat, assez sec, funk, Porto modéré et n'offrant pas la comlplexité que j'attendais surtout au vu de la durée de mise en barrique. Petite pointe de Sherry, léger citronné , barrique modeste.

Tried from Draft on 03 May 2018 at 14:42


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Sampled at Quintessence 2018. Clear pale golden pour with no head. Notes of soft cheese, mineral funk, sweet milky cheese, hay, smooth and sweet port.

Tried on 03 May 2018 at 12:12


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

The second embodiment of this legendary "royal geuze", originally made for the Koningsfeesten in 1991, celebrating the Belgian king Baudouin's sixtieth birtday as well as the fortieth birthday of his kingship back then. Made with port barrel aged lambic, only three batches were made originally, but this second one was announced in March 2016 and served from draft last Tuesday during Cantillon's Quintessence event; finished bottles of this will probably avail in the course of 2019 (and will undoubtedly cause an immense rush of people wanting to get their hands on it no matter how - but this is not the place to complain about that whole Cantillon hype which still seems to be only increasing). Loose and bubbly, off-white, quickly dissolving head over a hazy, warm 'old gold' coloured beer. Aroma of damp barnyard, pear juice, vanilla-ish wet oak, gooseberries, lemon rind, old sweat, artisanal cider, moist hay and indeed a whiff of (white rather than red) port wine far away in the background. Sour and lemony in the onset but not overly acidic, gooseberry and fermenting pear notes, some unripe stonefruit and green berry wryness lingering; bready and wheaty underground with ongoing lambic fruitiness and tartness, funky ending with damp hay and wet leather aspects, lingering wry fruit peel impression and tannic woodiness, drying and quenching. Port remains a faraway background echo, and I would expect it to become even more buried under lambic funkiness when this gets bottled and further matured. Never had the original one so I am unable to compare, but this by itself is a fantastic Cantillon geuze without a doubt, even if somehow less expressive and less 'different' than several of their other special editions.

Tried from Draft on 03 May 2018 at 09:22


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Quintessence. Clearish golden color. Lightly vinous aroma with dust. Taste has soft funk, more vinous notes. Tasty.

Tried on 02 May 2018 at 17:26