Cantillon Brewery

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Cantillon Brewery
Cantillon
Location Brussels, Belgium
Year opened 1900
Active Beers
Gueuze 100% Organic Lambic lambic
Gueuze 100% Lambic lambic
Kriek 100% Lambic kriek
Rosé de Gambrinus lambic
Grand Cru Bruocsella lambic
Iris lambic
Vigneronne lambic
Saint-Lamvinus lambic
Fou' Foune lambic
Lou Pepe Gueuze lambic
Lou Pepe Kriek kriek
Lou Pepe Framboise lambic

Cantillon Brewery (Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon) is a small Belgian traditional family brewery based in Brussels and founded in 1900. Although it has been managed by the Van Roy family after the last Cantillon left it to his son-in-law Jean-Pierre Van Roy, the name Cantillon has been kept.

It brews lambic beers like kriek and geuze in the traditional style, unchanged since it was founded. It is the last lambic brewery in Brussels. More recently it started making Iris, a spontaneously fermented beer that, unusually, does not contain wheat and is made with fresh hops, and as a result is thus technically not a lambic.

It is also The Gueuze Museum in Brussels, and is open to the public to tour and see the maturing beer, and watch the brewing and bottling processes.

It threatened to end its activities because of the new European Law Project on food and drinks which threatened beer made from wild yeasts because of new hygiene regulations.

Taste-wise, Cantillon's beers are quite tart and dry compared to for instance the industrial, artificially sweetened geuze and kriek of Mort Subite.

The brewery is located in the municipality of Anderlecht.

[edit] Beers

  • Gueuze 100% Organic Lambic (gueuze made up with organically grown cereals)
  • Gueuze 100% Lambic
  • Kriek 100% Lambic (kriek)
  • Rosé de Gambrinus (raspberry taste)
  • Grand Cru Bruocsella (lambic beer, unblended and almost flat)
  • Iris (100% barley and fresh instead of aged hops)
  • Vigneronne (grape lambic beer)
  • Saint-Lamvinus (in collaboration with Saint-Emilion and Pomerol vine growers)
  • Fou' Foune (apricots lambic beer)
  • Lou Pepe Gueuze
  • Lou Pepe Kriek
  • Lou Pepe Framboise (raspberry taste)

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