Cantillon Brewery
Location	Brussels, Belgium
Year opened	1900
Active Beers
Gueuze 100% Organic Lambic	lambic
Gueuze 100% Lambic	lambic
Kriek 100% Lambic	kriek
Rosé de Gambrinus	lambic
Grand Cru Bruocsella	lambic
Iris	lambic
Vigneronne	lambic
Saint-Lamvinus	lambic
Fou' Foune	lambic
Lou Pepe Gueuze	lambic
Lou Pepe Kriek	kriek
Lou Pepe Framboise	lambic

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. Image File history File links Cantillon. ... Nickname: The Capital Of Europe, Comic City City of a 100 Museums Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Coordinates: Country Belgium Region Brussels-Capital Region Founded 979 Founded (Region) June 18, 1989 Mayor (Municipality) Freddy Thielemans Area    - City 162 (Region) km²  (62. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Kriek is a Belgian beer fermented with cherries. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Kriek is a Belgian beer fermented with cherries. ... Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... The entrance of a brewery. ... Nickname: The Capital Of Europe, Comic City City of a 100 Museums Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Coordinates: Country Belgium Region Brussels-Capital Region Founded 979 Founded (Region) June 18, 1989 Mayor (Municipality) Freddy Thielemans Area    - City 162 (Region) km²  (62. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ...

It brews lambic beers like kriek and geuze 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 thus technically not a lambic. Traditional wooden Lambic barrels; the L on the barrel indicates the brewery. ... Kriek is a Belgian beer fermented with cherries. ... Lambic (sometimes called gueuze lambic) is style of beer brewed in the vicinity of Brussels, Belgium. ...

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.

It threatened to end its activities because of the new European Law Project on food and drinks which threatened beer made from wild yeasts because of new hygiene regulations.

Taste-wise, Cantillon's beers are quite tart and dry compared to for instance the industrial, artificially sweetened geuze and kriek of Mort Subite.

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 (raspberry taste)

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External links

• Cantillon
• BeerPal
• Beer Advocate
• RateBeer
• Shelton Brothers — US importers of Cantillon

References

Tim Webb, Chris Pollard, Joris Pattyn, Lambicland, ISBN 0-9547789-0-1