Cantillon Monk's Café Cuvée De Monk's Gueuze

Description

Cantillon Monk's Café Cuvée De Monk's Gueuze is a special gueuze blend with barrels hand selected by Tom Peters of Monk's Café in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Jean Van Roy.

History / Other Notes

Cuvée De Monk's Gueuze is a blend selected by Tom Peters, the owner of The Monk's Cafe in Philadelphia. The 2006 portion included 20 kilos of Amarillo hops that were added at the end of the boil by Cantillon with Tomme Arthur (the Lost Abbey), Adam Avery (Avery Brewing), Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head), Vinnie Cirluza (Russian River), Rob Tod (Allagash), and Tom Peters who were visiting during the 2006 open brew day.

A year later, Jean Van Roy believed that the batch was too hoppy and agreed to let Tom Peters to make a special bottling of that batch. Tom selected 250 liters of the 3 year old lambic with Amarillo hops, 500 liters of new wood 2 year old lambic, and 250 liters of 1 year old lambic.

At the Monk's Cafe Mad Monday event in August 8, 2011, a hand-out was available explaining the available beers. The description for this beer provided by Monk's Cafe is in the gallery below.