Cassis Rullquin (bottled)
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brasserie Artisanale de RullesStout - Sour Special
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Score
7.62
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This time we have fermented blackcurrant berries in Rullquin for 4 months. The final concentration is 160gr per litre. The beer matured for 9 months in the bottle.
The result is a very drinkable beer with some roasted malt notes and a strong fruity aroma.
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Scopey (25115) reviewed Cassis Rullquin (bottled) from Gueuzerie Tilquin 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750ml bottle from Raynville Superstore. It pours hazy deepest brown with a thick, fluffy light tan head. The aroma is sweet - sour, juicy, jammy, tangy, ripe fresh blackcurrant, blackberry, funky, barnyard, nutty, roasted malt, coffee grounds, victoria sponge cake, sherbet, refreshers, purple chewits, vinous vibes and roasty vibes. The taste is sweet - sour, tart, tangy, vinous, light acidity, light tannin, juicy blackcurrant, blackberry, jammy, granny smith apple, musty, damp, oak, light toffee, toasty brown bread, hint of cacao, dried fruits, toasted fruit cake and light charred notes with a drying, toasty finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Great depth of flavour, but importantly also balance. Very quaffable stuff.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Cassis Rullquin (bottled) from Gueuzerie Tilquin 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Dark brown with thin head. The elements all merge together well. Nice funky aroma with a touch of red berries. Full bodied, solid malty sweetness combines well with the tartness of the blackcurrants.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
1/V/22 - 75cl bottle, shared @ Toer de Geuze, Tilquin brewery, BB: n/a (2022-467)
Clear deep brown beer, small creamy off-white to beige head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: earthy, good roast, caramel, fruity, nice, bit roasted, some raw clams (oysters or mussels). MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice roast, bitter, fruity notes, sourish, some tannins. Aftertaste: sourish, bitter, dry, some berries, tannins, coffee notes, nice stuff!
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
New blend of Tilquin’s own blackcurrant lambic with La Rulles Brune, a dubbel by the befriended Rulles brewery in the southeastern part of Belgium; like most Tilquin products, this one existed in unblended draft form before it was backblended and bottled into the present form I am rating here. From a 75 cl bottle with cork, opening with a ‘bang’ and gunsmoke… Thickly moussy, dense, frothy, pale beige-white, stable head, misty deep purplish-tinged burgundy robe with ruddy-brownish hue. Aroma of clear cassis and fresh blackcurrant berries as well as green blackcurrant bush leaves, brown bread dough, blackberries, dried prunes, tea, dry soil, Roosvicée, fermenting apple peel, hints of caramel, bitter green weeds, sweet Jonagold apple flesh. Fruity-sour onset, lively but gentle blackcurrant acidity with a touch of fructose sweetness hidden within, also this ‘green’, weedy spiciness I associate with this fruit in ‘farm fresh form’; high effervescence, cava-like, pushing up other fruity associations of sour apple, blackberry and prune. Full, bready malty middle, brown bread and sourdough, even a vague walnutty hint, under a construction of ongoing green leaf or green weed impressions, fruity juiciness, yoghurty lactic tartness and woody and earthy accents; the fresh blackcurrant effect lasts till deep into the finish, which is predominanty dry, but still shows late bready malt sweetishness of the Rulles Brune peeping through. This ale has a softening, mitigating effect on the fruit lambic, making the latter more ‘accessible’ to a larger audience I reckon; as a whole, this ‘dark fruit version’ of the classic Stout Rullquin performs very well as a bready, earthy, juicy, spicy Belgian beer, complex and very pleasant thanks to the balanced and efficient interaction of the spongy, softening Rulles ale on the one hand and the sharp and pungent Tilquin lambic on the other hand. The overall effect also evokes associations with ‘oud bruin’ – in fruited form. A very successful ‘versnijbier’ or ‘bière de coupage’ for me, I thoroughly enjoyed every drop of it.