Lambic Discussion Thread

[GetchaPull]

Rude

Trust me, I had no idea that **** was happening either.

 

[stakem1]

So I guess folks have already installed scripts to refresh cantillons website to alert/auto-purchase anything they list for sale in the beer category.

Ive tried 3 random times this morning just to get on the site to see if I could remember my login credentials and the server has timed out each time I tried to log on.

 

[thunderbirdesq]

So I guess folks have already installed scripts to refresh cantillons website to alert/auto-purchase anything they list for sale in the beer category.

Ive tried 3 random times this morning just to get on the site to see if I could remember my login credentials and the server has timed out each time I tried to log on.

Yeah I was curious about that, got an e-mail saying there was an update on a t-shirt and glass order I placed and I couldn't get into the shop to check the alert. Were they selling more beer this morning?

 

[MikeG1]

Yeah I was curious about that, got an e-mail saying there was an update on a t-shirt and glass order I placed and I couldn't get into the shop to check the alert. Were they selling more beer this morning?

Nope - unless it was a very small and very quick sale. I checked a few times this morning and was able to get on no problem. Just got on again and nothing new in the store.

 

[MooseLang]

Yeah I was curious about that, got an e-mail saying there was an update on a t-shirt and glass order I placed and I couldn't get into the shop to check the alert. Were they selling more beer this morning?

I got that update, too. I haven't had a problem accessing the shop yet. No time-out errors since the initial bottle sale last week.

 

[scrub0bk1]

So I guess folks have already installed scripts to refresh cantillons website to alert/auto-purchase anything they list for sale in the beer category.

Ive tried 3 random times this morning just to get on the site to see if I could remember my login credentials and the server has timed out each time I tried to log on.

Yeah it has been slow for me all morning. I also have gotten like 4 update emails from Cantillon on my bottles but they are all the same thing, so i'm wondering if they're system is having issues as well.

 

[tylerk88]

My order status has changed to "processing." No issues logging in.

 

[MikeG1]

I was just able to log in no problem. I doubt another sale will be happening until they get through the backlog of shipping the items they already have outstanding from the last sale. Sounds like they're just getting to it now.

 

[thunderbirdesq]

Nope - unless it was a very small and very quick sale. I checked a few times this morning and was able to get on no problem. Just got on again and nothing new in the store.

Now I am able to get right in shrug.gif

I am super tempted to get one of those pitchers. This webshop will kill me.

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Now I am able to get right in shrug.gif

I am super tempted to get one of those pitchers. This webshop will kill me.

I've used my pitcher exactly one time. It's cool as breweriana I guess. Doubt I'll really ever put it to work.

 

[stakem1]

I've used my pitcher exactly one time. It's cool as breweriana I guess. Doubt I'll really ever put it to work.

I got a blue 1-liter pitcher around this time last year. I was not home when the mail arrived. Wife unpackaged it and thought it was amazing. She immediately put it to work in the kitchen storing the kids crazy straws and sippy cup lids/gaskets.

On thanksgiving im gonna dump all the kids **** out of it and use it as a gravy boat. Because thats what thanksiving is like in the stakem household.

 

[sunnrider]

I used mine once to decant a 3F beer and another time to share straight lambic with some friends.
Mostly it just sits on a shelf taking up valuable bottle real estate.

 

[stupac2]

The pitchers are pretty cool display pieces, but unless you decant frequently they're not super useful. I've used mine for Foumosas and to decant a couple different lambics that people recommended decanting, but that's come out to maybe once or twice a year.

 

[Snarf1]

The pitchers aren't for decanting, so unless you have draft lambic to serve, they aren't really useful for beer at all.

 

[wolfman1201]

The pitchers are pretty cool display pieces, but unless you decant frequently they're not super useful. I've used mine for Foumosas and to decant a couple different lambics that people recommended decanting, but that's come out to maybe once or twice a year.

This might be a stupid question but can't I decant in my wife's wine decanter? Should it go through the oxidizer? Is there any reason a glass decanter would be different than the clay?

 

[mrk_d]

I use a fairly typical wine decanter for the occasional bottle of lambic and it works great. I wouldn't really want lambic sitting for 30+ mins in a ceramic vessel, I have nothing to back this up but I inherently don't trust that ceramic glaze would be resistant to a relatively low pH substance for that amount of time.

 

[2plums4one]

Was at Sergio's world of beer in Louisville KY (incredible spo). I'm sure most of the lambic guys on here know that he is not a lambic rookie. Served us a bottle of cantillon gueuze which he poured into the pitcher. I trust his judgement. So far the only thing I've drank from the pitcher was a 4 year old vig.

 

[stupac2]

This might be a stupid question but can't I decant in my wife's wine decanter? Should it go through the oxidizer? Is there any reason a glass decanter would be different than the clay?

Did you mean to quote me? I have no idea but am incredibly skeptical that it matters at all.

 

[Snarf1]

Was at Sergio's world of beer in Louisville KY (incredible spo). I'm sure most of the lambic guys on here know that he is not a lambic rookie. Served us a bottle of cantillon gueuze which he poured into the pitcher. I trust his judgement. So far the only thing I've drank from the pitcher was a 4 year old vig.

Are you suggesting we should also use only water and our bare hands to 'wash' our glasses?

Service isn't exactly the strong suit at Sergio's. I've poured beer from that very pitcher. He didn't get half the 750 in it on the first pour.

 

[2plums4one]

Are you suggesting we should also use only water and our bare hands to 'wash' our glasses?

Service isn't exactly the strong suit at Sergio's. I've poured beer from that very pitcher. He didn't get half the 750 in it on the first pour.

Haha, its the only way! Honestly I was only there once, but thought it was pretty hilarious what they did with their cicerone certificates. I wasn't there long enough to notice that kind of stuff but I know he was pretty knowledgeable when I talked to him. Interesting. I mean, the place itself has a very "dank" vibe but I didn't see it translating to their service I guess.

 

[Hopping Tiger]

There's service at Sergio's? I've only taken bottles to the bar and begged them to spare me a few glasses.

 

[boogercrack]

This might be a stupid question but can't I decant in my wife's wine decanter? Should it go through the oxidizer? Is there any reason a glass decanter would be different than the clay?

More nucleation points (or whatever the hell that term is) in the pitcher leads to more carbonation being released, in my experience.

I like my lambics very lively. I've used a clay pitcher all of once.

 

[regularjohn]

The pitchers aren't for decanting, so unless you have draft lambic to serve, they aren't really useful for beer at all.

i use it to make the ultimate goozy cooovy

 

[koplamp]

Just changin' subjects: if you have a LPK '07 hanging around, thap that. Can't see how this could ever get any better than it is right now.

 

[lopejuice1]

Just changin' subjects: if you have a LPK '07 hanging around, thap that. Can't see how this could ever get any better than it is right now.

My personal favorite vintage of LPK and probably my favorite fruited lambic of all time, followed closely by 05. Saw a bunch were popping up in belgium recently, v v jealous.

errr i mean the fruitz are all faded and it's enamel stripping sour. find a fresher vintage this one's over the hill

 

[koplamp]

My personal favorite vintage of LPK and probably my favorite fruited lambic of all time, followed closely by 05. Saw a bunch were popping up in belgium recently, v v jealous.

errr i mean the fruitz are all faded and it's enamel stripping sour. find a fresher vintage this one's over the hill

Had an '09 LPF about a month ago and it was pretty acidic, although raspberries were present too. Didn't like it. LPK '07 had a ton of fruit, a ton of funk and a deep, deep cherry finish.

 

[lopejuice1]

Had an '09 LPF about a month ago and it was pretty acidic, although raspberries were present too. Didn't like it. LPK '07 had a ton of fruit, a ton of funk and a deep, deep cherry finish.

I always find raspberries to come off as more acidic than cherries. With the LPs I think it's definitely case by case. 08 LPF was fan frickin tastic and I'm a huge bitch about too much acidity

 

[MooseLang]

I've never had any of the rare-r Cantillons, but of the basic lineup I think LPK is consistently my favorite. I've had some show-stopping Fou Foune, and some awful Fou-Foune. LPF is usually too acidic for my liking.

St. Lam is awesome, too. But LPK has always been pretty consistent for me.

 

[LuxWanderer]

Just changin' subjects: if you have a LPK '07 hanging around, thap that. Can't see how this could ever get any better than it is right now.

Second that!

Normally I am a LPF homer but, damn, that was top 2 kriek for me!

 

[matedog]

Belated, but I cracked a December 2013 Hanssens OG a few weeks ago.

Gueuze-ie goodness was on point with classic grassy funk. This wasn't as scaldingly sour as Hanssens can be and even had some honey-esque flavors (not to suggest it was sweet by any means). On par with the best regular gueuzes I've had. Furthermore, I was hosting the wife's coworkers for a sours tasting and this was the consensus favorite from the otherwise AWA-centric tasting.