- Cantillon Brewery
Infobox Brewery
name = Cantillon Brewery
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location =Brussels ,Belgium
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opened = 1900
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active_beers = brewbox_beer|name=Gueuze 100% Organic Lambic|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Gueuze 100% Lambic|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Kriek 100% Lambic|style=kriek brewbox_beer|name=Rosé de Gambrinus|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Grand Cru Bruocsella|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Iris|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Vigneronne|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Saint-Lamvinus|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Fou' Foune|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Lou Pepe Gueuze|style=lambic brewbox_beer|name=Lou Pepe Kriek|style=kriek brewbox_beer|name=Lou Pepe Framboise|style=lambic
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other_beers =Cantillon Brewery (Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon) is a small Belgian traditional family
brewery based inBrussels 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 likekriek andgueuze 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.
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 .Beers
* Gueuze 100% Organic
Lambic (gueuze made up with organically grown cereals)
* Gueuze 100% Lambic
* Kriek 100% Lambic (kriek )
* "Rosé deGambrinus " (raspberry taste)
* Grand Cru Bruocsella (lambic beer, unblended and almost flat)
* Iris (100%barley and fresh instead of agedhops )
* "Vigneronne" (grape lambic beer)
* Saint-Lamvinus (in collaboration withSaint-Emilion andPomerol vine growers)
* Fou' Foune (apricot s lambic beer)
* Lou PepeGueuze
* Lou Pepe Kriek
* Lou Pepe FramboiseExternal links
* [http://www.cantillon.be/br/Cantillon.php?lang=3&page=1 Cantillon Brewery] official website
References
* Tim Webb, Chris Pollard, Joris Pattyn, Lambicland, ISBN 0-9547789-0-1
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