Cantillon Gueuze Lambic BIO 2022 375 ml – Belgium

Beer with a slightly sour and fruity taste, a delicate and woody aroma and a dry finish that remains on the palate.

Beer with the evolution of taste, which will be stored in a good cellar for a long time.

Lambiki produced in the Cantillon brewery are referred to as “young” after one year of aging and are considered fully mature after three years. Young beers contain natural sugars that are necessary for secondary fermentation in the bottle, while beers matured for three years add flavor and refined aroma.

Gueuze is the final result of a complex mixture of lambics of different ages and different flavors stored in oak barrels. The main task of the brewer is tasting, and he or she will have to try about a dozen lambics from different barrels, eventually choosing five or six. It is this method that 100% lambic gueuze is produced, showing the typical characteristics of Cantillon brewery beers. Each batch mixed gives a slightly different gauze, because the natural ingredients contained in the heart of beer make it impossible to produce a standardized product.

The bottles are placed horizontally in the cellar and left for an average of one year, which is required to convert the sugars into carbon dioxide (secondary fermentation in the bottle). The saturation of the liquid is done slowly and naturally, and when the lambic turns into a foaming beer, we call it gueuze.