On tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma reveals fairly subdued tropical mango, with tons of barnyard funk, leather and horse blanket. Flavour barely reveals any mango - it's mostly just barnyard funk, leather and gentle acidity. The fruit really takes the backstage. Acidic and barnyard-y. Fun stuff, but not my favourite from the series.

Next to the pineapple and fig versions, Tilquin experimented with a third exotic fruit in this second string of experimental fruit lambics, namely mango, which certainly hasn’t featured in any lambic so far (with the possible exception of one of those sweetened and filtered Chapeau beers by De Troch). No head at all, misty ochre-hued straw blonde robe. Aroma of only ‘green’ and unripe mango but hardly any of the familiar sweet mango odour most people would think of, canned tuna with peaches (weirdly!), grass silage, apple vinegar, white grape juice, strange hint of iron. Sour onset with a sweetish core from the mango, but this subtle sweetness ‘burns’ in quite harsh acidity; near to flat carb, funky grass silage and dirty floor aspects in the finish with the mango remaining hardly recognizable as such – again ‘canned tuna’ is a more realistic description of the retronasal aroma than mango… The lambic has done something really weird with the fruit here (as was also the case in the fig version), by itself a very interesting experiment, but I cannot say I truly enjoyed the result, though it kept fascinating me. One of the weirdest Tilquins ever for me (so far), at least in the sample I got.

07-12-19 // 125ml from tap shared with at Moeder Lambic Fontainas at the Tilquin Fruit Extravaganza Event #2. Has some sweet mango in the nose. But in the taste is more subtle and in the background. Sweetish in the end. Low carbonation. Good

Keg at 73 Enid Street, 29/05/19. Murky orange with little in the way of a head. Nose is big on funk, wood must, ripe citric flesh, stoned fruits, damp straw, light fecal trace. Taste carries big lambic funky licks, hay bale, light dung, damp wood, oak, stoned fruits, apricot tang, on the turn mango flesh. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close laced with balanced acidity. Solid work.