beer_name: Cantillon Gueuze 100% Lambic-Bio (Organic Gueuze)
text: Small bottle shared with Klym, SundaySour, and Myself in a weekend taster. Bottle is dated 4 May 2010. Poured into a Lost Abbey Tulip. A: Looks like a saltwater solution of amber sunshine. Cloudy but no appearance of floaties. There's a very hefeweizen like orangeness to this beer, but the thin patching of lambic bubbles lets you know otherwise. Dense diamond like bubbles line the glass like delicious bling-bling, gives an almost frosted appearance to the brew. S: A golden sweet wheatiness that never travels into the realm of artificial sugars. Pickled capsules of orange flesh, floating with whole kumquats. A super soft coriander note that keeps the theme orange on orange. Clementines sneak a peak, but ultimately never really take a starring role. Mild yeast funk seasons this juicy brew. T: Puckering green kumquats, with the rinds giving into to the tart and sour flesh. Super clean taste that has that wow factor. The flavor certainly comes off a bit green with some sweet limes sneaking in, but it never goes bitter. The flavors are clean and juicy, it's nearly impossible to not lick your lips after each sip. Super acidic presence of tartness, but honestly not nearly so acidic in digestion. Rinds are candied in a watery light sugar, then salted for fresh consumption. These rinds are fresh and zesty, Wow complexity. Sweet shiny pastries come to mind. So deep and adventurous. No vinegar at all. M: Such a fancy evaporating mouth-feel. The salty sweet character of the flavor invites a strong response of salivation, while the mouth is smothered with clean juices. It's like having a geyser go off in your mouth, wetness in the mouth without ever a perception of flatness at all, but the aspects you'd expect to feel (given the fruity/citrus flavor) never seems to come. There's no hop/rind bitterness, and the acidity is soft spoken at most. O: My first cantillon, and it didn't disappoint. I've had a few other Gueuze, but nothing as clean or refined as this. There's a magician in this glass, giving impressions of fruity small citrus fruits but eliminating rind bitterness. Puckering freshness that takes the intensity of the fruits to 11. This is well over a year old, and it has the intensity of something off the vine. So clean, and so good. This is an improvement on nature, and I commend the brasserie for their efforts. I can't wait to see what else these magicians have in store for me! Great first offering, and I'm begging for an encore.