# Cantillon (Lambic)

> <p><strong>Known for:</strong> The world's reference Lambic brewery. Wild spontaneous fermentation — Brussels air is literally an ingredient. The brewery is a working museum open to visitors.</p>

**Ownership:** Van Roy family, 4th generation — Anderlecht, Brussels, founded 1900

**Known for:** The world's reference Lambic brewery. Wild spontaneous fermentation — Brussels air is literally an ingredient. The brewery is a working museum open to visitors.

**History:** Founded in Anderlecht in 1900 and still in the same building. Cantillon uses no cultivated yeast — beer ferments entirely from wild microorganisms in the Brussels air, a tradition unchanged for centuries. Cantillon Gueuze and Kriek represent one of Europe's most irreplaceable beer traditions, so tied to the geography of the Senne Valley that it cannot be authentically replicated anywhere else on earth. The Van Roy family have never been tempted to scale or sell.

https://www.cantillon.be