Meerts aux Fruits des Bois
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Series|
Score
7.65
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The Meerts Tilquin series was made by fermenting fruit that had already been used once. Five different forest fruits were fermented for a period of 4 months in a blend of 80% 1 year old Meerts and 20% of a blend of different 2 year old lambics. Meerts (or March Beer) is a low strength lambic, which was originally produced with the weaker wort obtained from the rinsing of the grains. Unfiltered and unpasteurized, they are refermented in the bottle.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
A taster shared with Josh, Matt, Phill, and Ryan during FHF with priceless Rachel's (yup, again!) help in organizing all the mess with glasses. Appearance: moderately hazy copper with a white head. Aroma: fun, currants. Taste: same. Overall: good one.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2023
at 21:54
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pale pink head, stable over (cold)hazed deep red beer. Farmyard, restrained horseblanket... and fruit... red fruit... but kill me if I could tell what exactly. Sour, red/pink berries, jumble of fruits, if - thankfully - never descending to the ubiquitous fruitflavouring for jam/soft drink alas too popular in Belgium. Refreshing, spritzy carbonation, slight acidthinning. I do not know if the impossibility to identify the fruits comprised ought to be recognized as fault, or as asset...
Tried
from Bottle
at
Café Pardaf
on 05 Aug 2023
at 08:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at 73 Enid Street. A hazed plummy red coloured pour with a lively lasting pink froth. Aroma is nice dirty funk, raspberry, blackberry, dusty berries, tart fruit, farmyard, horsey. Flavour is composed super tart, pithy drying berries, gooseberry, blackberry, drying funk, drying pithy finish. Palate is tart and prickly, uber drying finish, fine carbonation. Nice complexity.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jul 2023
at 17:22
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle from the 'Meerts box' from Hopduvel. Hazy red, quickly thinning, off-white head. Intense aroma of cassis, blueberry juice, unripe raspberry, yoghurt, sour cream, vinegar, lemon peel. Taste has very sour cassis, berry skin, redcurrant and some lemon acid balanced within a juicy, lactic-acidic, fruity-yoghurty profile. Very tart finish of red berries, berry skins, juice and seeds, offering a tannic and woody effect next to a funky vinegary note. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. A thoroughly juicy, fleshy, wild Fruit Lambic.
Tried
on 12 Jun 2023
at 14:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Red, a white rim briefly. Aroma of funky old lemons, Ribeena, oak. Dry. Not a lot of fruit and very woody but it's as much moody as sour. More compelling after a time.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2023
at 15:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
375mL bottle, pours a cloudy deep cherry red with a small white head. Aroma brings out pithy berry, gentle jammy currant, and subdued funk. Flavour has a full-on raspberry and blackberry character upfront, with jammy currant, moderate funk still poking through, and a touch of acidity. Jammy, berry-dominant and nicely tart. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2023
at 21:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a dark golden color lambic with a small foamy head with limited retention and no lacing. Aroma of fruity notes with some tart funky ester. Taste is a mix of fruity berry notes with some tart funky ester with light oak presence. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Nice drinkable fruited lambic with nice berry notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2023
at 01:47
8.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Again very clear, deep red this time. Nice dry cellar funk, wheat, quite some fruit sourness with a hint of tannins and aroma, though like others in the series it’s not very fruit forward. A bit more on the sour side, bit I love the brightness and funk here. Overall quite good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2023
at 21:01
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle with cork 2023-01-11 Göteborg (Moderskeppet) AR: berries from the Wood, thin body, sour. tart AP: wee pinkish, no head F: berries from the Wood, thin body, sour. tart
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2023
at 06:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml. bottle. @home, 17/11/2022 [#5.660 Global - #246 Belgium - #9 Gueuzerie Tilquin] Pours hazy pale red with a fizzy and pinkish head. Aroma: tart, funk, tangy blackberries and jam. Taste: dry, tart, puckering sourness and tons of red berries. Tart and sour mouthfeel. Next one please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2022
at 08:49