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Cantillon Saint Lamvinus
Cantillon Saint Lamvinus
Demand Forces Cancellation of Cantillon Mamouche 2015
Demand for one of the world’s most popular wild and sour breweries is causing production issues.
This week, Belgium’s Cantillon mention that case sales limits have dropped from five to three to prevent a complete sell out.
Additionally, Cantillon doesn’t have enough stock of Gueuze to start the 2015-2016 season. Because of this shortage, and in order to keep enough old Lambic to make Gueuze, Cantillon has cancelled production of their fruit lambic, Mamouche.
The next potential blend of Cantillon Mamouche will be in 2016.
Allagash Wild Friendship Blend Tasting Opportunity Now Open
Not too long ago, Allagash Brewing (Portland, ME) and Russian River Brewing (Santa Rosa, CA) created a very special collaboration with world renown Belgian brewery, Brasserie Cantillon.
Wild Friendship Blend, born in Belgium, is a three way blend of 3 year old Cantillon Lambic, 2 1/2 year old Allagash Coolship, and 2 year old Russian River Sonambic.
Sure to be a very limited release, is Allagash’s version of Wild Friendship Blend, brewed/blended again with beer from Cantillon and Russian River. All the breweries agreed that this special collaboration would only be poured at special events.
On Saturday, May 9, 2015, Allagash will host Wild Friendship Celebration, where Wild Friendship Blend will finally be served. Attendees of the Wild Friendship Celebration will get to taste this small-batch brew of which only 1500 bottles were produced. No bottles will be sold. Additionally, three other rare beers from each brewery will be offered.
Brewery founders Jean Van Roy (Cantillon), Vinnie Cilurzo (Russian River), and Rob Tod (Allagash) will all be in attendance. “Full Plates Full Potential,” an initiative to end childhood hunger in Maine, will receive a portion of the proceeds from the Wild Friendship Celebration.
Tickets will be available at WildFriendshipBlend.com starting on March 16 through March 23. Those wishing to attend can submit their email address for the random ticket selection process – 350 addresses will be randomly chosen to purchase two tickets.
Details about the event:
- The event is Saturday, May 9 at Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine. There will be two separate sessions: 1-4 pm and 5-8 pm.
- Tickets for this event are $100 (plus ticket service fees) and include a souvenir glass from the event.
- Attendees will receive 4 ounces of each of the 10 beers being poured at the event (including Wild Friendship Blend). Admission also includes food from 3 prominent local restaurants/caterers
- 350 tickets per session will be available, and sold through a random ticket selection process.
- Ticket buyers and attendees must be 21 years of age. Proof of age and tickets must be presented at the door at time of entry to the event.
- If you are selected to purchase a ticket, information on parking & transportation arrangements will be available at time of ticket purchase.
Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged)
Availability: 12.7oz Bottles
6.4% ABV
Image via Allagash Brewing
Inside Cantillon [VIDEO]
It’s Zwanze Day. This is the brewery that is responsible. Because you can’t make it to Belgium, you can see it here. Courtesy of the Shelton Brothers.
Cantillon Zwanze Day 2013 is Saturday
This Saturday is Cantillon’s Zwanze Day 2013. Every year the Zwanze beer is hand selected by the brewery’s Jean Van Roy.
2013’s release is Abbaye de Cureghem, a 7.2% “abbey” ale. What is it? Try to follow along…
The base beer was brewed in March, 2012 and fermented in stainless steel for four weeks with a cultured yeast strain. After the four weeks, the beer was blended with 10% lambic and placed into oak barrels. Six months later, all the barrels were blended and put into casks to condition.
Cantillon doesn’t consider this a sponanteously fermented beer (i.e. fermented with wild yeast) because of the cultured yeast in the beginning. However, Roy notes that there is enough wild yeast floating around the brewery and in the lambic to give the funky flavors people look for in Cantillon’s brews.
A tiny handful of American bars receive the special kegs that will be tapped at 9pm Brussels time on September 14th. Stateside, kegs can be found here.
- Alewife Queens — Long Island City, New York
- Armsby Abbey — Worcester, Massachusetts
- Avenue Pub — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Beachwood BBQ — Seal Beach, California
- Birch Bar — Norfolk, Virginia
- Brouwer’s Café — Seattle, Washington
- ChurchKey — Washington, D.C.
- Crooked Stave Barrel Cellar — Denver, Colorado
- Hill Farmstead Brewery — Greensboro, Vermont
- Holy Grale — Louisville, Kentucky
- Hop & Vine — Portland, Oregon
- Jester King Brewery — Austin, Texas
- Lord Hobo — Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Mikkeller Bar SF — San Francisco, California
- Monk’s Caffé — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Novare Res Bier Caffé — Portland, Maine
- REAL a Gastropub — Honolulu, Hawai’i
- Redlight, Redlight — Orlando, Florida
- Russian River Brewing — Santa Rosa, California
- Spuyten Duyvil — Brooklyn, New York
- Stone Bistro & Gardens — Escondido, California
- West Lakeview Liquors — Chicago, Illinois
Cantillon To Experiment With New Fermentation Vessels
Cantillion, one of the most sought after lambic brewers in the world might be changing things up a bit in the near future. Their lambics (sour wheat beer endemic to Brussels) have been aged in wooden barrels for years. Soon, you may partake in a Cantillion lambic from a new style of barrel – an amphora.
John-Pierre Van Roy writes:
Until recently I would have never even imagined myself putting my beer into anything besides a barrel, and yet… And yet, a blind wine tasting session completely changed my vision of things. On that occasion I tasted something which truly caused me to lose my composure. Its exceptional fragrance and finish, unbelievable complexity bringing together fruitiness, freshness and minerality made it incomparable with a “traditional” wine. There was clearly something different at work here, but what?
Amphora. What’s that you might ask? It’s pictured below.
An amphora was a vessel to carry liquid in the Mediterranean, and more notably the Roman Empire. It even became a unit of measurement by the Romans. There are a few winemakers these days that are using this pots to make natural wine, without the addition of extra yeast. The method of making these wines are similar to lambic making.
Cantillion has recently acquired 12 of these vessels, soaked them in water, and filled them with lambic this month. First tastes of these amphora lambics will ready this fall.
Side Note: A reader inquired about what wines inspired this. There’s a bit more from Cantillion:
Wikipedia can give you a full rundown on amphoras…
