Flaska från SB. Guldorange, lätt disig med vit krona. Rejäl ton av honungs- och sesamkaka, mer än vanliga OG. Funk, bra djup, något skarp, lägre syra på ytan och bra med kärnbeska från druvkärnor. Ett snäpp upp i komplexitet och djup/fyllighet än vanliga OG.

Nose: bright apple, hay, peach. Palate: soft, peach, pineapple

Bottle at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Pours a cloudy orange gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is strong funk, oak, earth, apple skin. Light body, funky, wood, apple, nice tartness, enjoyed this.

750ml bottle. Funky, sour and mineraly with some earthy notes, tart berries, farmyard and leather. Quite nicely balanced and aged lambic.

Medium white head, rather stable, over hazy golden beer, finely carbonated. Lemony lambic, buttermilk, horseblanket, sour exotic fruit, ever so slightly sulphury nose. Sour, lemony if with a fine honeyish touch, (Citrus)flower, lactic acid, barnyard flavours. Very spritzy carbonation, light body and refreshing. Top gueuze.

Pierre Tilquin has been celebrating the ten years of existence of his ‘gueuzerie’ throughout the month of May and one of the ‘birthday surprises’ he came up with, is this celebration geuze, limitedly produced in a way that is, in a sense and not taken too literally, ‘reversed’ in terms of the proportions of old and young lambics – more specifically, this one contains 20% lambic of one year, 40% lambic of two years and 40% lambic of three years. Bottle under high pressure, but no true gushing or anything like that. Medium sized, snow white, thinning and open head, dissipating further to a waferthin ring of bubbles over an initially near-clear, warm orange blonde beer with peachy hue, quickly turning misty. Lively lambic bouquet of dry haystacks, dried old lemon peel, wild apples, dusty attic, a funky ‘stale sweat’ note, lemonbalm from a herbarium, old bread crust, straw bale, hard unripe peach. Crisp, fizzy onset, lots of cava-like, ‘crystalline’ carbonation, sour apple, green gooseberry and wood sorrel acidity with a stonefruity core, but generally very dry, continuing in a lactic, bread-crusty and lightly lemony middle; the sharpest, lemony aspect of the sourness fades after that, into a more ‘sedate’, noble, rustic and herbal finish, offering quite some ‘Bretty’ funkiness (stale sweat and ‘horseblanket’) as well. A crisp, green-fruity lactic sourness lingers over tannic woodiness, ‘dustiness’ and dried herbal aspects with a typical note of very old dry sherry reminding you of the high proportional age of the lambics in this blend. A late and deep earthy ‘old’ hop bitterness rounds things off. Very pleasant, mature geuze, indeed distinct from the regular version but still very Tilquin; I wonder what an ‘injection’ with four year old lambic would give, though, perhaps an idea for the next birthday celebration?

Bottle @ the brewery. Hazy golden colour, white creamy foam. Incredibly complex nose: citrus, barnyard, notes of stone fruit, ripe plums, wood. Very well balanced. Great geuze!