Cantillon® Cantillon Gueuze 750mL – 8296687862000

The Gueuze Cantillon, is a real spontaneous fermentation beer that is a blend of lambics produced during different years.  The Lambics are all brewed with organically grown wheat (35%) and barley malt (65%) and with dried hops. The Gueuze Cantillon is a sour beer that contains absolutely no sugar. Beer with a slightly acidic and fruity taste, delicate and woody fragrance and a dry finish that lingers on the palate.

A word from the Brewer –
Lambics produced at Cantillon Brewery are referred to as “young” after one year of ageing and are considered as fully matured after three years. Young beers contain the natural sugars that are necessary for secondary fermentation in the bottle while beers that have matured for three years contribute their taste and refined flavours.

Gueuze is the ultimate result of a complex blend of lambics of different ages and with different tastes kept in oak barrels. The brewer’s main task involves tasting and he or she will have to try around a dozen lambics from different barrels, finally selecting five or six. It is by this method that gueuze 100% lambic, presenting the typical characteristics of Cantillon Brewery’s beers, is produced. Each blended batch yields a slightly different gueuze because the natural elements at the heart of the beer make it impossible to produce a standardised product.

Bottles are positioned horizontally in a cellar and left to rest for an average of one year, this being the time required for the conversion of the sugars into carbon dioxide (secondary fermentation in the bottle). Saturation of the liquid takes place slowly and naturally, and when the lambic turns into a foaming beer it is called gueuze.

Beer with taste evolution that will keep for a long time in a good cellar. Enjoy within 20 years of bottling date.