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Cantillon Grand Cru Bruoscella 2022/2023

Cantillon Grand Cru Bruoscella 2022/2023

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Producer Cantillon
Country Belgium
Region Brussels

Tasting Notes

Bramley Apple, Lemon Rind, Damp Cellar and Aged Oak

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More About Cantillon Grand Cru Bruoscella 2022/2023

From the legendary Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Grand Cru Bruocsella 2022/2023 is one of Cantillon’s purest and most uncompromising expressions of traditional lambic.

Unlike Gueuze, this is unblended lambic, drawn from a single brewing season and aged patiently in oak barrels before bottling. The result is deeply complex and intensely expressive, with aromas of bruised apple, lemon peel, damp cellar, hay, and earthy funk layered over subtle oak and oxidative notes.

 

Meet the Producer, Cantillon

Cantillon

Style: Lambic Brewery & Blendery

Cantillon is basically sacred ground for sour beer fans. Part brewery, part living museum, part spontaneous fermentation cult headquarters, this tiny Brussels producer has spent over a century stubbornly refusing to modernise while the rest of the beer world lost its mind chasing trends.

Founded in 1900, Cantillon specialises in traditional lambic beer, brewed using spontaneous fermentation where wild yeasts from the air do the work instead of carefully controlled lab strains. Which sounds either beautifully romantic or completely irresponsible depending on how much microbiology you know. Somehow, against all logic, it produces some of the most complex and revered beers on earth.

The brewery still uses methods that many producers abandoned decades ago because they’re slow, unpredictable and commercially inconvenient. Wort cools overnight in open coolships beneath the Brussels air, beer ages for years in old barrels, and blending becomes an art form somewhere between brewing and alchemy. The result is beer full of tart citrus, barnyard funk, oak, lemon peel, hay, apple skin and enough acidity to wake up parts of your palate you forgot existed.

What makes Cantillon especially fascinating is how uncompromising it remains. The beers are unapologetically dry, sour and deeply weird by mainstream standards. First-time drinkers sometimes react like they’ve accidentally consumed farmhouse vinegar. Then six months later they’re queueing outside the brewery trying to buy limited bottles like medieval pilgrims.

The brewery itself feels frozen in time too. Dusty, chaotic, creaking and utterly authentic in a world increasingly dominated by polished taprooms and branding consultants. Cantillon isn’t trying to impress anyone. It simply keeps making some of the greatest traditional beer in existence and letting the rest of the world catch up eventually.