Cantillon Brewery

Cantillon Brewery

Infobox Brewery
name = Cantillon Brewery


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location = Brussels, Belgium
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opened = 1900
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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 gueuze 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 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

External 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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