During my last trip to Brussels I found myself with some time to kill so I took the short walk from Midi station to Brasserie Cantillon. This brewery in Brussels's Anderlecht district is famous for its lambic beers, fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts from the local air.
It's the first time I've made the trip. I didn't get a chance to take the tour (next time!) but i did have a nose around the entrance and the foyer, buying a few beers to take home in the process.
Blink and you'd miss the brewery entrance on a quiet, shabby street. The double yellow doors have a small notice on with opening hours. Step inside and the first thing to notice is the brewery smell. Slightly sour and stale. Promising and alluring.
A smart modern brewery tap is built between a functional office, and a smart seating area. On the other side a bottle shop and merchandise desk busy with tourists and a map showing all the distributors of the beers across the world.
I brought back 3 beers:
Organic Geuze
Kriek (cherry lambic)
Rose (Rasberry lambic)
At a later point in the future after my January abstinence is over I'm going to review these with a friend of mine who doesn't really know much about sour beers to gauge some reactions.....
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