Petite Gueuze Tilquin
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular|
Score
7.27
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The Petite Gueuze Tilquin is a blend of 70% 1-year-old light Meerts and 30% 2-year-old lambics, all spontaneously fermented and matured in oak barrels. Unfiltered and unpasteurized, this beer was given 2 months to spontaneously refermented in the can. It will surely keep evolving but its ready to drink, super refreshing, ideal for the coming summer !
It was canned with the help of our friends from Brasserie Minne (Somme-Leuze).
12.450 cans were produced.
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Maakun (16495) reviewed Petite Gueuze Tilquin from Gueuzerie Tilquin 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Can at Beerlovers bar. What a milstone, first real canned gueuze... Soft funk, lemon juice, a touch of oak, lime zest. It's bright, solid sour, light sweet and bitter. Bone dry finish. Really more a Meerts maybe, dry and sour but not so much body or complexity. Still tasty, fun and a nice modern twist on gueuze (which it really isn't). Good stuff nonetheless.
Zlotta (9906) reviewed Petite Gueuze Tilquin from Gueuzerie Tilquin 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
0.33 l can from 'Etre Gourmet', best before October 2026. Hazy, golden orange with a thin, slightly fluffy, slowly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, sourish, quite fruity and gently funky aroma of overripe lemon, grapefruit, apple, some horse blanket and a touch of white pepper. Slightly sweetish, quite sour, rather fruity and gently funky taste of overripe lemon, rhubarb, grapefruit, apple, some horse blanket and hints of white pepper, followed by a short, quite tart, gently woody-dry finish. Almost medium-bodied, fairly astringent and gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very refreshing, but also more acidic than the more refined Gueuzes from Tilquin.
EvNa (5983) reviewed Petite Gueuze Tilquin from Gueuzerie Tilquin 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
First Gueuze in can. Color: Hazy golden, fast diminishing white head. Aroma: A lot of stable-like funk, some fruity tartness. Taste: Over moderate to medium tartness, astringent mouthfeel, a lot of stable-like funk, fruity gooseberry, oak wood and some hay and minerals. Nice, easy drinkable, refreshing Gueuze but lacking some complexity compared with 'the real thing'.
Scopey (25061) reviewed Petite Gueuze Tilquin from Gueuzerie Tilquin 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Can from Raynville Superstore. It pours clear pale yellow - gold with a dissipating fizzy white head. The aroma is damp hay, cereal, biscuit, oatcake, zingy, tangy, emon peel, gooseberry, white currant, white grape, touch of white wine vinegar and damp oak. The taste is crisp, dry, snappy, puckering, dry oak, bright acidity, slightly chalky/some minerality, zingy citrus, sherbet, fizzy cola bottles, hint of lactic acidity, gooseberry, white wine, muted funk and hay with a bone dry finale. Average body and moderate, fizzy carbonation. Doesn't have the depth of the oude gueuze, but it's very enjoyable nonetheless. Moreish.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Petite Gueuze Tilquin from Gueuzerie Tilquin 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tilquin, established in 2009, has surprised lambicophiles more than once before, but usually by applying unlikely fruit species - I remember experiments with lemon or mandarin, to name a few; this is something altogether different, however: the first canned geuze in history, seemingly a continuation of the idea of vatted geuze which Tilquin already introduced years ago. There is, however, some historical background to justify the idea of geuze from tap, something completely lacking for geuze from a can, of course. Jokes about this have been going around for quite some years, with the exploding popularity of cans in craft beer - yet geuze is just one of those beer styles that seemed immune to this trend, until now (and I have to admit that when I first read about this, I too though it was, again, a joke). There is no doubt in my mind that purists will vehemently resist the idea, I believe it very rarely happens that a beer is released with such a potential to spark controversy as this one - so I am really curious not just about the product itself, but about the debates it will probably trigger, and I think Pierre Tilquin himself, not shy to some controversy, will be too... But let us all relax: first of all, a can is able to withstand up to 6 bars of pressure, which is about the amount of pressure in the average geuze bottle, so we do not have to fear exploding cans. Secondly, we all know the enormous ageing potential of a traditional geuze, but this one - even though ageing beer in cans is perfectly possible - was never intended to be tucked away in a cellar, as Sébastien already pointed out below: it is a kind of light-footed, sessionable beer for this summer, to be enjoyed young. And thirdly: it is not technically an 'oude' geuze at all, but a blend of meerts with 2 year old lambic - which is why it has been classified here as 'unblended': though not literally unblended, this category seems to convey the true nature of this "Petite Gueuze" perhaps a bit more accurately than the 'real' geuze category, though admittedly the lines are a bit blurry (but then this can be said of e.g. Boon's Mono Blends too). So, on to this 'little' beer then, coming from a 33 cl can (it is worth noting that the canning was done at Minne). Medium sized, egg-white, tiny-bubbled, slowly breaking but generally well-retaining head on a hazed yellow golden blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge and strings of fine but enthusiastic sparkling. Aroma of Granny Smith apple, considerable farmland and even manure (which lingers for a long time much more so than I am used to even from this genre), lime juice, overripe lemon, wet hay, sorrel, raw rhubarb, some background wood, unripe nectarine, wild berrries, ultra-dry white wine, dried moss, vague note of chalk. Lemony-sour, puckering onset, lime juice, green apple, sour unripe grapes and raw rhubarb - but smooth and refreshing, with minerally effervescence, very finely tingling; slick core, white-bready, dried by this lemony effect, reinforced by lactic acidity and some tannic effects from the wood in the background (subtle as expected). An odd chalky, even somewhat gypsum-like effect runs through it all, a feature I remember to have encountered in some of those Meerts editions Tilquin did a couple of years ago; the finish reprises green apple, lime and unripe grape effects but holds everything together well. Retronasally, quite a lot of that persistent 'freshly fermented farmland' lingers - I guess some consumers would consider this 'funk', but it is more down to earth than that, in a manner of speech. Purely flavour-wise, it does what it promises: a kind of quick, light-bodied, summery but in all respects 'credible' lambic experience - with the meerts being prevalent and indeed very reminiscent of that (fruited) Meerts series of 2022. Nothing to be shocked or spooked about, but I personally still prefer a fully developed, aged, corked and bottled geuze, for complexity and maturity alone.
Sebletitje (15832) reviewed Petite Gueuze Tilquin from Gueuzerie Tilquin 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Draft @ Tilquin.
Toute nouvelle sortie, et une qui risque de faire grand bruit ou du moins de diviser les puristes. Le sacrilège de mettre une gueuze en cannette - bon techniquement ce n'est pas une gueuze vu que c'est un assemblage de meerts encore jeune et pas de lambic de 3 ans. Pour le moment un 'one-shot' pour la saison chaude et une bière qui n'est pas conçue pour un vieillissement en cave.
Bref - belle robe dorée, sur un col blanc qui tient bien.
Arôme est frais oscillant entre un léger fruité citrique et un apport plus grains concassés tout en ayant ce bouquet déjà marqué de lambic.
Palais est super frais, ça se laisse descendre rapidement le tout sans tomber dans les travers d'une bière sans alcool, celle-ci se veut tout de même sans quasi aucune trace de sucre. Note délicate qui allie un lambic de deux ans avec un apport plus céréalier de meerts, le tout est finement sec, bien pétillant sans avoir trop de caractère de funk.
Une cannette que Pierre continue à surveiller et à tester en laboratoire (à grands frais) du fait des possibles réactions entre l'acidité des lambics et le produit de protection qui se trouve à l'intérieur des cannettes - tests qui restent dans les normes acceptables. Cependant, cette version n'est pas vouée à un vieillissement en cave de plusieurs années.
gave a cheers!