Cantillon Blåbær Lambik
A bilberry (European blueberry) lambic brewed exclusively with/for Ølbutikken, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2005 Vintage (batch 1) - First release ever, only 50 bottles released, 75cl bottles. Gold foil.
2007 Vintage (batch 2) - The first release of 2007, 37.5cl and 75cl bottles. Black foil.
2007 Vintage (batch 3) - The second release of 2007, 75cl bottles. Gold foil.
2009 Vintage (batch 4) - The first release of 2009, 37.5cl and 75cl bottles. No foil. Label reads "2009".
2009 Vintage (batch 5) - The second release of 2009, 37.5cl and 75cl bottles. No foil. Label reads "2009 II".
2010 Vintage (batch 6) - 400 litre barrel with 100kg bilberries added. No vintage on the label.
2011 Vintage (batch 7) - 400 litre barrel with 100kg bilberries added. 37,5cl and 75cl bottles. No foil. Label reads "11".
2012 Vintage (batch 8) - 400 litre barrel with 100kg bilberries added. 37,5cl and 75cl bottles.
2013 Vintage (batch 9) - Label indicates "13"
2014 Vintage (batch 10) - Label indicates "14"
2005 Vintage (batch 1) - First release ever, only 50 bottles released, 75cl bottles. Gold foil.
2007 Vintage (batch 2) - The first release of 2007, 37.5cl and 75cl bottles. Black foil.
2007 Vintage (batch 3) - The second release of 2007, 75cl bottles. Gold foil.
2009 Vintage (batch 4) - The first release of 2009, 37.5cl and 75cl bottles. No foil. Label reads "2009".
2009 Vintage (batch 5) - The second release of 2009, 37.5cl and 75cl bottles. No foil. Label reads "2009 II".
2010 Vintage (batch 6) - 400 litre barrel with 100kg bilberries added. No vintage on the label.
2011 Vintage (batch 7) - 400 litre barrel with 100kg bilberries added. 37,5cl and 75cl bottles. No foil. Label reads "11".
2012 Vintage (batch 8) - 400 litre barrel with 100kg bilberries added. 37,5cl and 75cl bottles.
2013 Vintage (batch 9) - Label indicates "13"
2014 Vintage (batch 10) - Label indicates "14"
4.2
668 reviews
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2015 at Himmeriget. 375 ml bottle. Pours a beautiful clear red with light head. Aromas of red and black berries, vinous and green oak, and sharp wheat. Sharp clean flavors follow with a light subtle funkiness. Great blueberry presence without heavy earthiness. Special.
01.03.2018, 0,375l bottle (2011 vintage) shared with yngwie @ his place:
Nice fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, berry skin, sour dry blueberry juice, mild vinegar, heather, oak, minerals, grass, fruit stones, hay. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, berry skin, grass, sour dry blueberries, heather, hay, fruit stones, oak, mild vinegar, sorrel. Medium bitterness, dry sour-ish fruity mouthfeel. Lovely.
30.04.2015, 0,375l bottle (2014 vintage) shared @ �lbutikken:
11.10.2014, 0,375l bottle (2014 vintage) @ �lbutikken:
9-5-9-5-19=4,7
Nice pink fizzy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry fruity, berry skin, sorrel, hay, dry blueberries, oak, hints of thinner. Taste is sour-ish dry, sorrel, raw rhubarb, berry skin, oak, dry blueberries, soda powder, chalk, vinegar. Medium bitterness, nice dry acidic mouthfeel. Very nice, and it's become a little better in 6 months.
Thanks CT for sharing the 2018 bottle! Poured into a taster showing deep dark blueberry with sparse pink tinged foam.
The nose shows moderately intense juicy notes of blueberry and tart brett.
The palate is medium bodied and well carbonated. Juicy forward blueberries with a moderate brett tartness and moderately intense acetic notes throughout followed by more blueberries on the finish.
Sporo jagód, tanin i końskiej derki w aromacie. W smaku kwaśne octowe, lekko słodkie w tle. Na finiszu mocno brettowe, lekko cierpkie. Dobry lambicz
Rocznik 2018. Troche jagodek troche stajni lekki ocet - pyszne i orzezwiajace ale w sumie overhype
750ml bottle @ Matt's DEWC - Blue Tasting. Vintage 2018. Pours a mostly opaque purple colour with a thin purplish head. Nose is a mix blueberries with a spiced note and some green fruits. Flavour is unsweetened blueberry of a non-synthetic variety, some light funk, and a soft acidty. Medium to light bodied, light carbonation, and delicious. Very nice.
Yup. Thanks to SinH4 for organizing this! Pours cloudy deep red. Aroma is blueberry indeed, cherry stone, overripe fruit. Body is medium, fruity still, but bone dry from the beginning. Chalky and astringent. Strong and lasting acidity, down to the stomach. Closes early in the mouth due to being extremely astringent. The fruit works well. A good fruit Cantillon, yet not their best. Worth the hype? Well, there are fruit lambics of a similar quality on the shelves.
Rami Rami is drinking a Blåbær Lambik (Blueberry Lambic) (2018) by Brasserie Cantillon at Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
Sa niby te jagody, ale jest tez cos w stylu skislego mleka w ramach dzikusow. Slodkawy, kwasnosc niewysoka. Smak>> aromat
Rami Rami is drinking a Blåbær Lambik (Blueberry Lambic) (2016) by Brasserie Cantillon at Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
Mniej jagod w odbiorze, duzo dzikosci skorzano-oborowej, kwasnosc niewysoka, gladki w uscie fajnie, ciut cierpki, klasa
2016 - 4.3
2018 - 3.8
(bottle, thanks to SinH4!) Clear, deep red colour without head, except for a shallow pinkish rim. Blueberry aroma with sour-tart and tannic notes, hints of barnyard and traces of raspberry. Moderately sour flavour, light to medium bodied without carbonation. Dry, moderately sour fruity and tannic taste with notes of blueberries and raspberries; dry, mildly tannic and slightly astringent sour-tart finish with a funky edge. Superb. 04.VI.18
Red. Aroma is leather funk herbal leaves grapes. Intense. Taste is sour with lots of berries and balanced blueberry sweetness. Long finish. Not harsh at all.
Thanks hubi for this! Pours dark Red. Nose is blueberry, cherry, wood, tannins, red grapes. Palate is raspberry, blueberry jam, blackcurrant, red grapes. Delicious!!
Score: 9 / 4 / 8 / 4 / 18 - - From bottle, vintage 2018, at Cantillon Forum, Arrogant Sour Festival 2018.
Dark ruby-purple body, with a medium, fluffy, pinkish head.
Amazing aroma of funk, loads of dense chewy sweet-earthy blueberries, some pears, some apples.
Tastes quite similar, while with more acidity and funk, some vinegar.
Medium, a bit oily mouthfeel, with a moderate carbonation.
Finishes dry, medium wooden, a bit sweet a bit sour, with pears, apples, lingering blueberry skin, that stays forever.
Delicious! I really love the nose, which is an almost perfect, dense mix of funk and beautiful, thick blueberry notes. Tastes a bit young maybe, with a slight acidic edge, but then also with loads of lovely blueberries. Beatiful and pretty different, as great as I was hoping for!
3 year old bottle: 375 ml, vintage 2018 from the sale in Copenhagen.
Very smooth aroma, still with a lot of blueberry skin. Taste is less acidic than the fresh one, while also a bit less fruity. Very smooth overall, elegant and balanced, while I prefer it fresh a bit more I guess.
Flavorful tart blueberry acidity seductively dances with aged hops, candied plum, white wheat, and cactus water. I didn't believe a beer could ever possibly be this good, but after this I never doubted Belgian lambics again.
2015 vintage. Ruby color with pink head. Aroma has musty wood notes, cellar funk, fermented dark fruits and damp hay. Taste is tart, fruity with fermented berry notes, quite generic fruit notes, can't really get clear blueberries. Light body, medium carbonation. Nice but not quite up to it's reputation.
2015 bottle. Thankyou Jan for snatching this one for me! Deep, dark red, small pink head. Horse, barnyard aroma. Funky berry, blueberry flavour, tart, dry. Good.
Bttle, completing all Top10 Fruit Lambics as of now. Deep ruby color with pinkish head. Aroma is leathery, blueberry skin, very Lambic. Taste is super Lambic, earthy, horseblanket, leathery, dry, lots of tannins. Oily mouthfeel with natural carbonation. Wow, I had not much expectations on this, but this is fantastic!
Bottle from a friend (vintage 2011). Amber color, white head. Sour taste with bilberry, wheat, tart, citrus, berries, grass and acidic notes. Sour finish with bilberry, wheat, tart, berries, grass, sour apple and a bit of cidic notes. Excellent lambic.
2015 750mL bottle drunk 9/20/17.
A beautiful robe of violet-magenta shows good clarity in the light, leaving the plentiful sediment behind. Pink-tinged white head shows modest retention for the style, eventually fading to ring.
The nose is just filled with beautifully expressive fruit, side-by-side with tart bacteria/yeast creating wonderful layers of complexity. Sniffable to perpetuity, it's both tart, juicy, tannic and even somewhat vinous, yet never "sweet" or "sugary". Nor is it too sour, achieving a good mix of both fruit and bacteria acid while lively Brett adds band aid, light lime and other soft funk and mineral. No alcohol or flaw. Very high strength of aroma.
Similar fruit flavors abound, tickling the tongue as plentiful Brett and lacto add a lightly puckering character and both fruit and barrel tannin soften the blow (though it's never terribly sour), mostly just very tart. The fruit is well-integrated again and the carbonation quite engaging, but it's markedly thin, seemingly over-attenuated and phenomenally bone dry, to the point of fault. It's pretty rare that under-malting and/or thin, washed out texture is a thing I get from Cantillon (or 3F for that matter) so this was even more disappointing. Just didn't have enough malt depth/suppleness. Obviously I'm not expecting it to be sweet, thick and richly malty, but it was noticeably less than the standard and caused a lot of astringency to build up on the finish. Assuming this is just a bottle or batch variation and still enthused to drink more Blabaer.
Tap @ Himmeriget. Pours dark purple with small head. Blueberry, wood, stables, vinegar, det finish with blueberry in the aftertaste.
From tap, 2014 vintage tasted September 2017; red with pinkish head; aroma is fruity, tart and slightly funky, berries; taste is low in sourness, berries, slightly funky, fruity dry finish; texture is juicy with high carbonation and a light body
2014 vintage tapped at Himmeriget. Ruby with a small white head. Blueberry, wood, vinegar, horse blanket, funky aroma. Blueberry, sour vinegar, woody touch, blueberry skin. Good tart aftertaste with lots of blueberries. Good although imo overhyped.
0,375l bottle at Himmeriget shared by me. Vintage 2015. bourdeaux like color, small pink head. smells cheesy, blueberries, grassy, funk, berry notes, green apples. very nice smell. Medium Body, light carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes of grass, funk, some berry notes, green apples, spices, peppery. finishes medium sour with notes of funk, grass and peppery notes. very nice one, could use a bit more fruit notes, but overall very nice stuff.
2018 Bottle at Arrogant Sour Festival at the Cantillon Tasting. Just a short sumup: Overall this was (obviously) a lot more fruit forward than the older version. Overall I think I prefered the fresher bottle.
Deep blue amber color with a pink ish head. Good intensity in the aroma. Medium body and a mellow carbonation level. Balanced sweetness and a fine acidity. Dry ending. Lasting flavor with blueberries, wood, yeast and fruity notes. Nice tasty stuff.
Tried 2010, 2011 and 2017 version. All of them were a bit different. Also varied if you got some of the bottom sediments in the glass. Two different bottles were also different.
[Bottle at Himmeriget in Copenhagen, Denmark – Blueberry release 2017]
375 ml bottle from Himmeriget. A blue purple color with some light funk and very light tart in body. Blueberry throughout. Very nice and smooth.
Pours a reddish purple with a pinkish lacing. Aroma is blueberry skins and vinegar moderately sour. Incredible
Fresh Bottle. 2016. Need the older Ones :). Stunk, KellerfussWaltz und fies rund. Lambikwunderkind mit absolut blaubeeriger Tiefenwirkung 👌💋. 375ml Bottle. Shared with Rasmus & Scottie. Ca. 15 Euro. HIMMERIGET, Kopenhagen.
From 33 cl bottle vntage 2013 courtesy of Kermis in Den Haag. Pours a cloudy blue-tinged mahogany. Aroma of blueberry and sour grapes. Sour, and bitter finish.
Kermis the cellar digger just levelled up! Thanks for sharing. A bottle labeled "16". Hazy dark purple with light pink head. Big sweet and sour berries, similar to (but apparently not the same as) bluberries, hay, grapes, grape most, big funk. Grape stone bitter. Moderate sweet and sour and bitter. Over medium body, very very juicy, soft carbonation, lovely stuff.
Bottle shared by kermis, 2015 vintage, thanks! Pours a nice dark red with a pinkish head. Heavy on the berries but also very funky, more than I remember from previous occasion. Really deep, intense funk with a nice depth to it. Berry sweetness. Over medium sour, medium sweet. Medium body & carbonation.
Bottle shared massive thanks to kermis!! Deep purple with light purple head. Lots of hay, funk and horse on the nose when smelled directly from the glass, but there’s also strong bilberries from a bit further away. Taste has loads of Cantillon funk and horse, soft fruits, hay, light minerals. The berries are a bit in the background, with mostly berry skins coming to the foreground. Medium sour, light sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft fizzy carbonation. Very good, though not as fruity as I expected.