Cantillon (brewery)

Brewery in Brussels, Belgium

Cantillon Brewery

Industry| Alcoholic beverage
Founded| 1900; 125 years ago (1900)
Founder| Paul Cantillon
Marie Troch
Headquarters|

Anderlecht, Brussels

Belgium

Products| Beer
Owner| Jean-Pierre van Roy
Website| www.cantillon.be

Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon ("Brewery Cantillon") is a small Belgian traditional family brewery based in Anderlecht, Brussels. Cantillon was founded in 1900 and exclusively brews lambic beers.

## Overview

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The brewery was founded in 1900 by Paul Cantillon, whose father was also a brewer, and his wife, Marie Troch.[1] As of 2011[update], the owner is Jean-Pierre van Roy, the fourth-generation brewer at Cantillon.[2] Since launch, the only major change has been a shift to organic ingredients in 1999.[3] Cantillon was one of more than one hundred operating breweries in Brussels when founded, and was the only one to remain operational through the 2000s.[1][4] In 2014, van Roy announced that the brewery would be acquiring more maturation space, effectively doubling production by 2016–17.[5]

Cantillon produces 400,000 bottles of beer a year.[6]

## Beers

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Gueuze beer

In the traditional lambic style, beers, with a mash bill of 2/3 malted barley and 1/3 unmalted wheat,[1] are spontaneously fermented in open topped attic mounted vats called coolships, aged in oak or chestnut, blended (from different batches and ages), bottled, and then bottle conditioned for a year. Half of the brewery's production is gueuze; once a year a batch of kriek is made.[3] For fruit-flavored beers, empty casks are filled with various fruits and macerated for three months to dissolve the fruits; young lambic is added to supply sugar for fermentation.

* Blåbær - bilberry (made every year for a bottle shop in Denmark)
* Cuvée Saint Gilloise - This is not a traditional gueuze, in that it is made from only two-year-old lambic, not from a blend of old and young beers. It is also dry-hopped in the cask for three weeks with fresh Styrian Golding hops. Re-fermentation in the bottle is achieved with the addition of a small amount of candy sugar.
* Fou' Foune - apricot[3]
* Grand Cru Bruocsella - unblended lambic aged for three years, and refermented with liqueur d'expedition[3]
* Gueuze[3]
* Iris - 100% pale barley malt beer with half fresh hops aged for two years and then dry-hopped[3] with Hallertau hops[1][3]
* Kriek - lambic made with cherries[3]
* Lou Pepe Gueuze - blended from beers of the same age, thus not a strictly authentic gueuze[3]
* Lou Pepe Kriek - with more fruit (cherries)[3]
* Lou Pepe Framboise - with more fruit (raspberries)[3]
* Magic Lambic - 80% Lou Pepe Framboise and 20% blueberry lambic with vanilla[7]
* Mamouche - elderflower
* Nath - brewed with rhubarb
* Rosé de Gambrinus - framboise[3]
* Saint Lamvinus - Merlot and Cabernet Franc grapes[3]
* Soleil de Minuit - cloudberry (made in 1999 and in 2013)
* Vigneronne - Muscat grapes[3]

## Gueuze Museum

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Cantillon Brewery mash tun, part of the gueuze museum

The brewery also houses the Gueuze Museum.[8] Patricia Schultz listed the brewery and its museum in 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.[9]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d McFarland, Ben (2009). World's Best Beers: One Thousand Craft Brews from Cask to Glass. Sterling. pp. 100–101\. ISBN 9781402766947. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
2. ^ Koch, Greg; Allyn, Matt (2011). The Brewer's Apprentice: An Insider's Guide to the Art and Craft of Beer Brewing, Taught by the Masters. Quarry Books. pp. 272–84\. ISBN 9781610581592. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Oliver, Garrett; Colicchio, Tom (2011). The Oxford Companion to Beer. Oxford UP. pp. 216–17\. ISBN 9780195367133. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
4. ^ Stange, Joe (7 December 2010). "Brasserie de la Senne Versus the Universe". Draft. Archived from the original on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
5. ^ Nason, Adam (August 2014). "Cantillon to double production with help of new building". BeerPulse.com. Beer Pulse. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
6. ^ Boffey, Daniel (10 September 2018). "One of world's oldest beer varieties 'at risk from climate change'". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
7. ^ "Cantillon Magic Lambic". lambic.info. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
8. ^ Brussels Gueuze Museum Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, europe-cities.
9. ^ Schultz, Patricia (2011). 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, the second edition. Workman. p. 92\. ISBN 9780761168713. Retrieved 27 May 2012.

## External links

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* Official website (in English)

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