A Year of Beer #9 - Lambic Kriekbier - Cantillon and Timmerm

[2pazzo]

Great review. I just returned from a week in Brussels and toured the Cantillon brewery. I got to try this beer and I think your assessment of the taste is pretty spot on. It lacks sweetness b/c the fruit spends more time in the beer during fermentation and thus more sugars are converted. It's great stuff. And yeah, you don't see many (if any) men in Brussels drinking the mass produced, syrup laden Krieks.

[KumaOdense]

Not much lambic about the timmermans. That is some sugary/sticky shit! Cantillion is genius!

[ZakAvery]

Thanks for the comment. The Timmermans is a bit sweet, you're right, and Cantillon is a really exciting beer.

[AirCrashBureau]

First the sour and then the sweet, not the other way around! :-((

Very informative nonetheless.

[ZakAvery]

I wanted to feel the full force of nature. And hell, I did. And it felt good.

[syr1811]

for ACB

OR,

First the light, then the powerful

First the lesser quality, then the better.

It's so much better to just make up your own rules, within reason, of course.

My mouth is watering just looking at the Cantillon!

Cheers!

[al1988al]

that face when he tatses cantillion :))