Cantillon Beck-Hartweg
Description
Cantillon Beck-Hartweg is a beer made blending 2-year-old lambic with wine from the Beck-Hartweg winery in Alsace, France. Florian Beck-Hartweg actually got in touch with Cantillon as he had a wine that he deemed slightly too acetic to be released as such, and he thought it would actually work great as a lambic blend. Jean Van Roy liked the idea and since the wine's fermentation wasn't over, he decided to blend 25% wine to 75 % of young 1-year-old lambic to help finish the fermentation.
Side Notes
The first blend made was produced in small quantites as a trial, second bottling was based on approximatively 100 Liters of wine to which 470 Liters of lambic was added, and was originally supposed to help the Vini Birre Ribelli festival that was in a bad spot at the time. The festival stopped before the beer was able to be released there, thus it ended being poured at the brewery's taproom as well as various events. It was also sold to the members of the Zwanzer's Club.
Bottle Log
| Bottle date
(mm/dd/yyyy) |
Cork Date | Bottle Size | Label / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/21/2018 | - | 750 mL | white label; trial batch made in small quantities in a homebrewer fermenter vessel |
| 02/10/2021 | - | 750 mL | white label; blend of riesling, pinot gris, and pinot noir from 2020 |