Oude Quetsche à l'Ancienne
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
7.83
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The Quetsche Tilquin à l’ancienne is a spontaneous fermentation beer obtained from the fermentation of destoned fresh purple plums (Quetsche véritable d’Alsace, close to the Damson) in a blend of 1 and 2 years old lambics for a period of 4 months. Unfiltered and unpasteurized, it is re-fermented in the bottle for a minimum period of 3 months. The lambics used were fermented and matured in our own oak barrels at the blendery. They are made from worts brewed by Boon, Lindemans, Girardin and Cantillon.
The taste is slightly tart but also fruity and round which makes this Quetsche à l’ancienne may be more accessible for non-experts or less sophisticated palates. It also has a slight dryness from the skin of the plums. The nose perceives a plum brandy perfume.
The taste is slightly tart but also fruity and round which makes this Quetsche à l’ancienne may be more accessible for non-experts or less sophisticated palates. It also has a slight dryness from the skin of the plums. The nose perceives a plum brandy perfume.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cellar dwellar i've been keeping myself since release. Finally relieved from its corked existance in 2026... pours dark alber, quite a big and stable white head! Scent is dusty, funky lambic, oak, mild fruityness, still. taste is surprisingly vibrant. very matruee, citrussy, yet complex acidity. Damp cellar (in a good wayà) loads of oak, very dry, mild fruityness still rpesent. Aged gracefully, old in the best ways a lambic can get old, let alone a fruit lambic. Still a good, even relatively high carbonation. This held up incredibly well, and is nowhere near the drainpour I feared it to be. Perhaps slightly less fruity, but I like it more now, than I remember I ever liked it fresh !
Tried
on 19 Jan 2026
at 18:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home in BGY on Christmas eve. Szoki, a gyumolcs kicsit hatterben de csereben nagyon szep funky, kellemesen szaraz.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2025
at 13:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 75cl partagée avec Isaac, Sergi, Costa, Bernat, Tavo, Iñaki, Nacho, Trota - El Birrot & Basque region friends mega tasting. Merci!
Toujours bien vivace même avec plus de 10 ans.
Fruité de prune encore là tant au nez que en bouche - funk assumé avec une belle effervescence en fin de bouche - assemblage des lambics reste complexe.
Toujours bien vivace même avec plus de 10 ans.
Fruité de prune encore là tant au nez que en bouche - funk assumé avec une belle effervescence en fin de bouche - assemblage des lambics reste complexe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2025
at 17:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Bottle @ SKAAL Sønderborg, shared by Henrik. Pours murky orangeish with small off-white head. Clear aroma of Lambic yeast, with dusty and fruity notes. Dry flavour of wild yeast, with rough and dusty botes amd touches of malt and berries. Dry aftertaste with dusty touches. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2025
at 20:58
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2025
at 23:50
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, from Ambasada. cloudy orange with small white head. Plums, funk, some barrel. Medium sourness.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Ambasada.
on 25 Apr 2025
at 22:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour at Beerselection. A szilva a hatterben marad, ahogy arra szamitani is lehetett, de a vibralo, kellemes savassag, a komplex brett karakter es a fas jegyek elviszik a hatukon igy is kenyelmesen
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
biottle at cask days 2018. Purple pour, with a small pinkish head. Aroma is plums, sour plums. General fruitness, wet hay, and solid funk notes. lively mouth feel, lively carb. Finish is sour, but with a subtle fruity sweetenss, and some ripe plum rounds it out.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:58
8.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Orange colour, no head, as expected; aroma of vinegar, acetone, vinous, unripe green apple, yeasty and woody notes; taste is the sam with citric acidy notes; great one
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2025
at 17:14
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at ZBF’13, Leuven: Opaque purple/orange coloured brew with an sour taste of grapefruits and hints of plums.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:37