Experimental Fruit Series #3 - Reine Claude
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Series|
Score
7.04
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled at Max's Belgian fest 2024. Pours a murky orange, no head. Nose has sour orange mojo, lemon, funky barrel. Flavor has lemon and horse, natural wine. High acid finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tørst draught, 4/29/23. Light haze, white head to cover. Soft and yet tart with really interesting plum notes showing candy (smartees) and with a bit of lacto-acetic culture behind it. Lovely, leathery fruit with skin, light flesh and heavy acid in the finish (lactic, malic). Good funk, good tartness up front. Lotta acid in the finish but compelling fruit.
Billie’s craft beerfest 2021
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught @ Billie's Craft Beer Festival 2021. Funky, farmyardy and heavy with juicy plums, some sourness and vinous grapey notes. Good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Experimental Fruit Series #3 - Reine-Claude Tilquin - Draft Version on 12 Nov 2021 at 21:06 - Score: 8
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2021. A hazy yellow golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of sour yellow fruits, yeast. Taste of funky peach, brett, wood.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft @ Tilquin. Hazy orange blond colour, white foam. Fruity nose of unripe plums. Fruity, dry and woody. Well balanced. Good!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
New plum lambic in the third round of experimental fruit lambics, not with the Altesse Simple variety that is used in the (now) classic Oude Quetsche, but with a more familiar variety, the Reine Claude (probably the one you’ll find the most frequently in Belgian and Dutch supermarkets). Thin and open, small-bubbled, snow white head on a hazy, pale orangey apricot blonde robe. Aroma of unripe green plum and plum skin rather than the fleshy sweetness of ripe Reine Claude I was expecting, lemon rind, grass silage, old bread crust, old dry wood, dust, sour apple, kefir, gooseberry. Tart onset, very softly carbonated (but actually unexpectedly carbonated at all, considering this is unblended lambic), lots of green gooseberry and sour apple effects sourly surrounding a more wry and astringent green plum aspect; supple body, lots of drying lactic tartness and tannic ‘old’ woodiness, rustic, with a dash of plum sweetness peeping through faraway at the back – mitigating the overall rather sharp sourness and adding balance and complexity, without becoming pronounced in any way. Compared with the unblended Quetsche lambic that serves as the basis for the bottled Oude Quetsche and which I had years ago but still vividly remember, this one is far less fruity and much more lambic-forward, whereas I was actually expecting the opposite. I think a bit more Reine Claude sweetness and fleshiness could turn out lovely, but in this form, it is still a complex, dry, bit funky and overall refined lambic.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft @ Tilquin 10ième Anniversaire - 2ième wknd.
Couleur dorée pâle oscillant vers l'ambre, col fin blanc-crémeux.
Arôme offre un bouquet lambic marqué, funk, pointe acidulée, vieille cave, le fruité et discret et vient s’immiscer en rétro-nasal - dur de mettre le doigt ou le nez sur la reine-claude.
Palais offre un caractère acidulé marqué sur une bonne effervescence très sec en bouche avec un côté de barrique modéré. Le fruité est plutôt minimaliste dans son approche, petite pointe de fleuri. Sans le savoir, il est quasi impossible de détecter de la reine-claude et ce malgré la teneur sucrée de ce fruit. A contrario, retrouve un léger côté prune verte pas encore mûre qui s'entremêle avec le citrique.
Ma moins préférée du jour sur les 4 nouvelles.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
8/V/21 - on tap @ Tilquin brewery (Rebecq), BB: n/a (2021-364) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the beers!
Pretty cloudy deep orange beer, small creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of brett, nice and funky, sweet ripe fruits, some apples and pears, good stuff! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty funky, bitter, dry and spicy, bit herbal, lemony, some orange juice, good but the fruit is very subtle! Aftertaste: some bitter fruit skin and pits, tannins, very acidic, lemon juice, herbal, spicy, mouth puckering dryness, decent beer, but the Reine Claude is very very very subtle!