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[[File: Cantillon-Gambrinus.jpg|right|300px|Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus]]
[[File:Cantillon-RosedeGambrinus.jpg|right|300px|Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus]]
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== Description ==
== Description ==
Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus is a traditional raspberry lambic (framboise) bottled regularly by Cantillon. Its fruit content is generally around 200 grams of raspberries per liter of lambic.  The fruiting process for Rosé de Gambrinus consists of taking pre-frozen raspberries and placing them in stainless steel tanks with an average age of 20 month old lambic for a maceration period of 1-2 months.  It is then transferred to a stainless steel bottling tank until it is ready to be bottled. A quantity of young lambic is added equal to one-third of the volume of the fruited lambic before bottling to obtain secondary fermentation.<ref name = CantillonBrochure> Brasserie Cantillon - Tour Brochure (English) </ref>
Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus is a traditional raspberry lambic (framboise) bottled regularly by Cantillon. Its fruit content is generally around 200 g of raspberries per 1 L of lambic.  The fruiting process for Rosé de Gambrinus consists of taking pre-frozen raspberries and placing them in stainless steel tanks with an average age of 20-month-old lambic for a maceration period of 1-2 months.  It is then transferred to a stainless steel bottling tank until it is ready to be bottled. A quantity of young lambic is added equal to one-third of the volume of the fruited lambic before bottling to obtain secondary fermentation.<ref name = CantillonBrochure> Brasserie Cantillon - Tour Brochure (English) </ref>


== History / Other Notes ==
== History / Other Notes ==
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The name Rosé de Gambrinus first made an appearance on a bottle in 1986 with the base lambic having been brewed in 1984 (see below for complete history).  It has been in Cantillon's regular lineup ever since.  There have been slight variations to the Rosé de Gambrinus label design over the years but it has remained generally consistent. The most notable variation involved briefly clothing the woman due to label approval issues in the United States.
The name Rosé de Gambrinus first made an appearance on a bottle in 1986 with the base lambic having been brewed in 1984 (see below for complete history).  It has been in Cantillon's regular lineup ever since.  There have been slight variations to the Rosé de Gambrinus label design over the years but it has remained generally consistent. The most notable variation involved briefly clothing the woman due to label approval issues in the United States.


Rosé de Gambrinus has undergone one notable recipe change.  Prior to the 2004-2005 brew season, Cantillon used Belgian raspberries. Because Belgian raspberries did not add enough color, Cantillon would blend in between 5% and 10% kriek.  In 2004-05, because it was difficult to find enough Belgian raspberries, Cantillon switched to Hungarian raspberries.  With the Hungarian raspberries providing enough color, Cantillon no longer blended kriek into Rosé de Gambrinus.<ref name=Summit11>[[The Lambic Summit 2010#Part11|The Lambic Summit 2010, Part 11]]</ref>
Rosé de Gambrinus has undergone one notable recipe change.  Prior to the 2004-05 brew season, Cantillon used Belgian raspberries. Because Belgian raspberries did not add enough color, Cantillon would blend in between 5% and 10% kriek.  In 2004-05, because it was difficult to find enough Belgian raspberries, Cantillon switched to Hungarian raspberries.  With the Hungarian raspberries providing enough color, Cantillon no longer blended kriek into Rosé de Gambrinus.<ref name=Summit11>[[The Lambic Summit 2010#Part11|The Lambic Summit 2010, Part 11]]</ref>


While framboise is most commonly served fresh, Jean Van Roy stated during the Lambic Summit (Part 15) that:  
While framboise is most commonly served fresh, Jean Van Roy stated during the Lambic Summit (Part 15) that:  
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On February 21, 2008 a label for the kegged version of Rosé de Gambrinus was approved by the TTB. <ref name= TTBGam> TTB Label Approval, [https://www.ttbonline.gov/colasonlin/viewColaDetails.do?action=publicFormDisplay&ttbid=08045001000043 Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus], 2008 </ref>
On February 21, 2008 a label for the kegged version of Rosé de Gambrinus was approved by the TTB. <ref name= TTBGam> TTB Label Approval, [https://www.ttbonline.gov/colasonlin/viewColaDetails.do?action=publicFormDisplay&ttbid=08045001000043 Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus], 2008 </ref>
In 2025. a rumor was going around stating that the amount of fruit in Rosé de Gambrinus was increased and the overall profile became closer to [[Cantillon_Lou_Pepe_-_Framboise|Lou Pepe Framboise]], which lead to a decision by the brewery to stop producing the Lou Pepe version. Jean Van Roy confirmed the rumor to be false, indeed Rosé de Gambrinus became more aromatic over the years, but it is due to the fruits being more aromatic and flagrant themselves, probably due to global warming, and the amount added to the beer was never increased. The discontinuation of [[Cantillon_Lou_Pepe_-_Framboise|Lou Pepe Framboise]] has nothing to do with it.<ref name=LambicInfoConvo>Lambic.Info Interview with Jean Van Roy, february 2025</ref>


==From Framboise Lambic to Rosé de Gambrinus==
==From Framboise Lambic to Rosé de Gambrinus==
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In addition to using vanilla to cut down on the acidity, at one point a customer of the brewery named Paul Coorevits came up with a drink called the ‘Brussels Kir’ which was “Cantillon raspberry lambic in a flute glass mixed with a bit of strawberry liqueur” that not only would “bring down the tartness, it also enhanced the beer’s colour.<ref name=GrummelslinkseJune> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – June 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>  
In addition to using vanilla to cut down on the acidity, at one point a customer of the brewery named Paul Coorevits came up with a drink called the ‘Brussels Kir’ which was “Cantillon raspberry lambic in a flute glass mixed with a bit of strawberry liqueur” that not only would “bring down the tartness, it also enhanced the beer’s colour.<ref name=GrummelslinkseJune> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – June 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>  


In the 1970s ad 1980s, raspberry lambic was much more pale than we are accustomed to today.  To enhance the color, Jean-Pierre mixed the raspberry lambic “with a certain portion of kriek” along with a small portion of vanilla<ref name=GrummelslinkseJune> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – June 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref> as evidenced on the pink Famboise Cantillon label.  This color ended up being the inspiration for what we now know today as Rosé de Gambrinus<ref name=GrummelslinkseJune> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – June 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>, but the name did not come from the Van Roy family.  An artistic friendship would eventually lead to the renaming and relabeling of this beer.
In the 1970s and 1980s, raspberry lambic was much more pale than we are accustomed to today.  To enhance the color, Jean-Pierre mixed the raspberry lambic “with a certain portion of kriek” along with a small portion of vanilla<ref name=GrummelslinkseJune> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – June 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref> as evidenced on the pink Famboise Cantillon label.  This color ended up being the inspiration for what we now know today as Rosé de Gambrinus<ref name=GrummelslinkseJune> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – June 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>, but the name did not come from the Van Roy family.  An artistic friendship would eventually lead to the renaming and relabeling of this beer.


[[File:Label-Cantillon-RoseDeGambrinus375-2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Artwork by Raymond Coumans]]
The history of the famous label for Rosé de Gambrinus dates back to 1980 when Jean-Pierre Van Roy suggested to Belgian watercolorist Albert Borret  that “he get together a few artists and organise an exhibition at the brewery to celebrate the second anniversary of the Brussels Gueuze Museum”.<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>  A total of eight painters and two sculptors attended this exhibition, two of whom were Raymond Goffin and Raymond Coumans who were close friends.  Because of the brewery’s financial situation at the time and because the museum society was not as well established as it is today, both Goffin and Coumans offered to produce three drawings each to be put up for sale by the museum society.   
The history of the famous label for Rosé de Gambrinus dates back to 1980 when Jean-Pierre Van Roy suggested to Belgian watercolorist Albert Borret  that “he get together a few artists and organise an exhibition at the brewery to celebrate the second anniversary of the Brussels Gueuze Museum”.<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>  A total of eight painters and two sculptors attended this exhibition, two of whom were Raymond Goffin and Raymond Coumans who were close friends.  Because of the brewery’s financial situation at the time and because the museum society was not as well established as it is today, both Goffin and Coumans offered to produce three drawings each to be put up for sale by the museum society.   
[[File:Label-Cantillon-RoseDeGambrinus375-2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Artwork by Raymond Coumans]]
 
The friendship struck up among the brewery and Coumans would eventually lead to Coumans inspiring the name of the beer and producing its famous label. In 1985, Jean-Pierre was in the cellars of Cantillon drawing Framboise Lambic from the barrels to be put into the bottling tank.  Coumans entered the cellar and was “marveling at the colour of the raspberry lambic coming out of the barrel”<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref> and into the copper buckets.
The friendship struck up among the brewery and Coumans would eventually lead to Coumans inspiring the name of the beer and producing its famous label. In 1985, Jean-Pierre was in the cellars of Cantillon drawing Framboise Lambic from the barrels to be put into the bottling tank.  Coumans entered the cellar and was “marveling at the colour of the raspberry lambic coming out of the barrel”<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref> and into the copper buckets.


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:: - “But Raymond, that’s a name used for wine!”<br>
:: - “But Raymond, that’s a name used for wine!”<br>


[[File:Cantillon Gambrinus Playboy March 1998.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus in Playboy Magazine, March 1998.]]
Then, in a very formal manner he said, “it will be called Rosé de Gambrinus and I’ll make the label for you.”<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>
Then, in a very formal manner he said, “it will be called Rosé de Gambrinus and I’ll make the label for you.”<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>


The label depicts King  Gambrinus, modeled on the mythical German king Gambrivius, who is said to have learned the craft of brewing from the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris. Gambrinus is credited in European lore with having invented beer, and he is cited in English, British, German, and Belgian drinking lore as well.<ref name=Birm> Birmingham, Frederic-Alexander. (1970). Falstaff’s Complete Beer Beer Book. Ward Books. New York, NY.</ref>  On the label, one can see King Gambrinus seated in a garden with a naked woman seated on his lap. This woman “is holding a goblet of beer in her left hand and will give it to her attentive escort if he is worthy of what is about to happen”.<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>  
The label depicts King  Gambrinus, modeled on the mythical German king Gambrivius, who is said to have learned the craft of brewing from the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris. Gambrinus is credited in European lore with having invented beer, and he is cited in English, British, German, and Belgian drinking lore as well.<ref name=Birm> Birmingham, Frederic-Alexander. (1970). Falstaff’s Complete Beer Beer Book. Ward Books. New York, NY.</ref>  On the label, one can see King Gambrinus seated in a garden with a naked woman seated on his lap. This woman “is holding a goblet of beer in her left hand and will give it to her attentive escort if he is worthy of what is about to happen”.<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>
 
This label and name was first put on bottles of Cantillon raspberry lambic in 1986.  Starting in 1990, Brasserie Cantillon began working with Wide World Imports Inc to export their beer to the United States.  Unsurprisingly, the original label for Rosé de Gambrinus was unsuitable for shelves in the United States and thus needed to be reworked for federal approval.  Maurice Coja, head of the U.S. import company, sent back a proposed label on which he had clothed the woman on the label in a black bra and mini-skirt.  Upon seeing the reworked label the original artist, Coumans, remarked: “Tell the Yank where he can put his suggestion, and also tell him that I’ll draw the woman’s clothes on myself”.<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>   
This label and name was first put on bottles of Cantillon raspberry lambic in 1986.  Starting in 1990, Brasserie Cantillon began working with Wide World Imports Inc to export their beer to the United States.  Unsurprisingly, the original label for Rosé de Gambrinus was unsuitable for shelves in the United States and thus needed to be reworked for federal approval.  Maurice Coja, head of the U.S. import company, sent back a proposed label on which he had clothed the woman on the label in a black bra and mini-skirt.  Upon seeing the reworked label the original artist, Coumans, remarked: “Tell the Yank where he can put his suggestion, and also tell him that I’ll draw the woman’s clothes on myself”.<ref name=GrummelslinkseSeptember> Van Roy, Jean-Pierre. (2016a). Grummelinkse – September 2016. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze. Brussels, BE.</ref>   


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