Cantillon Zwanze 2016
Description
Cantillon Zwanze 2016 is the ninth release in the Zwanze series of beers. This series has been released every year since 2008, and beginning in 2011, with a coordinated celebration around the world at various beer bars, breweries, and restaurants. The 2016 edition is a lambic with raspberries, blueberries, and vanilla added. It was served around the world for Zwanze Day on October 1, 2016.
History / Other Notes
For Zwanze 2016, the brewery decided to loosely follow a recipe that was used for Cantillon Framboise. According to Jean, "now the Zwanze 2016, I think, will be a beer we used to produce in the 80s and 90s: the old framboise Cantillon. When we used raspberries from Belgium, the taste was nice, but the color was not so beautiful. It was a bit old rose. To get a bit more color to the beer, we blended the raspberry beer with 25 percent of cherry Lambic and a bit of vanilla." [1]
For Zwanze 2016, raspberry lambic was blended with blueberry lambic with a small addition of vanilla added for flavor. The ratios are 82% rapberry lambic to 18% blueberry lambic with .05% vanilla added.
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References
- ↑ Interview with Jean Van Roy - bierversuche.ch