Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus

Country: Belgium //  Style:  Lambic   //  Size: 750ml Bottle  //  ABV: 5.5%
From the brewery:
"Blend of lambics and raspberries - 200 g of raspberries per litre of beer.


Beer with a slightly acidic, fruity and fragrant taste.

Just like kriek, the “fruitiness” of Rosé de Gambrinus is at its best when the beer is young. With age the lambic will take the upper hand, but this is at the expense of the fruit component.

The raspberries are from Serbia and the fruit is blended with lambic that is on average 20 months old, the proportion being 200 g of fruit per litre of beer. Since raspberries are delicate it is necessary to select a lambic that is both mellow and subtle so that it will be a good match for the fruit. After soaking for two to three months, the lambic has extracted the full colours, fragrances and flavours of the raspberries. At that point it is blended with one-year-old lambic, which contributes the sugars necessary for secondary fermentation in the bottle.

We only use fresh fruit and, as is the case for wine, Cantillon beers can be referred to in terms of vintages. Prevailing weather conditions have a major impact on the ripeness and quality of the fruit, and this is why the taste of the brewery’s fruit-based beers will differ slightly from one year to the next. While kriek certainly already existed in the 19th century, it is more difficult to determine when raspberry lambic first appeared in Brussels pubs. In any case, the beer certainly was available at the beginning of the 20th century, and Paul Cantillon indicates a greater number of bottles of raspberry lambic than kriek in his inventory for 1909-1910. Fruit beers disappeared from the inventory during the First World War, but from 1922 on kriek was produced again on a regular basis. As for the raspberry lambic it was produced again for a short time in the 1930s, but is completely absent from the inventories afterwards. One day in 1973, a friend, Willy Gigounon, showed up at the brewery with 150 kg of raspberries in trays. The final result was that the production of raspberry beers started up again 40 years after the last known date."

Description Blend of Lambics and raspberries at a rate of 200 g per liter. The fruiting process for Rosé de Gambrinus consists of taking pre-frozen raspberries and placing them in stainless steel tanks with an average age of 20 month old lambic for a maceration period of 1-2 months. It is then transferred to a stainless steel bottling tank until it is ready to be bottled.

As with the Kriek, the Rosé de Gambrinus will present a maximum of “fruity” if it is tasted young. Age will indeed allow Lambic to fully express itself, to the detriment of the fruit. 375ml. 5%

 

 

Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus 37.5cl

Style: Raspberry Lambic
ABV: 5.0%

Craft Beer

Blend of lambics and raspberries - 200 g of raspberries per litre of beer. Beer with a slightly acidic, fruity and fragrant taste. Just like kriek, the “fruitiness” of Rosé de Gambrinus is at its best when the beer is young. With age the lambic will take the upper hand, but this is at the expense of the fruit component