Meerts au Cassis
Gueuzerie Tilquin in Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Series|
Score
7.75
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle from the 'Meerts' box, from Hopduvel. Vintage 2020-2021. Clear red, thin, off-white head. Aroma of blackcurrant, blueberry, passion fruit, crème de cassis, sour cream, red fruit jam, barnyard, musty grape. Taste has very sour blackcurrant, passion fruit flesh and blueberry juice surrounded by sour cream-like lactic acid and funky notes against a sourdough malt body. Tart finish offers musty hay, berries and tannic wood & berry skin. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Pretty intense, not bad for 'second-hand' fruit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from a 375 ml, 2020 / 2022 vintage bottle. Aroma is moderately fruity with nice cassis notes. Medium light earthy, herbal mustiness with a bit of tannins and a slightly peppery note. Light cherry notes as well. Faint oak and light grain and alcohol notes. Pours a hazy, copper-red with a large, thick, frothy, slightly pink head that recedes quickly to the edges before disappearing. No lacing and faint legs. Flavor is slightly sweet with a medium light, slightly sharp acidity and light grain notes. Low bitterness and light alcohol notes. Moderately strong cassis notes with lighter cherry notes and hints of lemon. Light earthy, herbal mustiness. Faint oak notes and light tannins. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium high carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid meerts, but another one that is fairly fruity despite being second use fruit. This might be the fruitiest of them all, and it's hard to believe this is second use fruit. Light lambic notes poke through in the background.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
5/IV/24 - 37.5cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ Barjac (FR), BB: 22/VI/31, 20-21 version (2024-208)
Clear copper red beer, fizzy off-white head, unstable, dissipates immediately. Aroma: nice, very fruity, berries, a little funky, wood notes, more funky, red wine notes. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: a little bitter, no - wait. Very bitter, tannins, a bit woody, very dry, fruity, a bit spicy. Aftertaste: very acidic, lemon juice, dry, some tannins, fruity, cassis, more bitterness, some red grapes, decent!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
--Sample, thanks fonefan! -- Almost clear red, small head. Citric nose with hay and black currant. Mildly citric with medium body and clean, crisp mouthfeel. Citric with old hay, stone fruit and mild black currant. Mid bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample (20/21, thanks fonefan!). Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is tart floral, fruity, some mild acidic and funky wooden tones. Flavour is black currant, some floral, wooden, mild acidic, funky and tartish tones. Funny how these Meerts beers from Tilquin have such a similar aroma, but flavour is clearly of the flavourant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 375ml. corked @ home. 🏡🇩🇰 💻👀
[ As Tilquin Meerts au Cassis 2020/2021 ].
ABV: 5.6%. Clear medium to light red amber (orange) colour with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly to fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, moderate heavy yeasty, barnyard, leather, funk, grapes, cassis - blackcurrant, wood, oak. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, blackcurrant, grapes, barnyard, leather, funky, wood - oak, tart - sour, medium dry to dry. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20240207]
8-3-8-4-16
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. An unclear red beer with a pinkish head. The aroma has notes of black currant, funk, wood, and brettanomyces. The flaovr is sour with notes of black currant, brettanomyces, funk, and wood, leading to a tart finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bouteille 37.5cl, BB 22/06/2036.
Couleur léger acajou/ambre, col fin crémeux rosâtre - plus tenace que sur d'autres versions Meerts.
Arôme sur une base assez classique de Tilquin et de l'apport du lambic, cassis frais, finement fleuri et sensation de haies sans trop avoir le côté du deuxième pressage du moût. Fleuri ressort plutôt bien et confère ce côté frais.
Palais sur un léger funk assez classique de cette série et de lambics. Cassis marqué sans être surchargé en acidité. Je retrouve un côté un peu malté avec un accompagnement léger de purée de cassis. Epaisseur en fin de bouche avec un léger fini râpeux, le tout reste bien frais et finement acidulé sur la fin.