Bottled 375ml. -at Ambasada Zagreb. Unclear golden coloured, small white head, funky and light grapes in the nose. Fruity, yeasty, funky, notes of apricot, lemon and light wood with sourish sweetish finish. Low carbonation, bit sweeter than 40-60.

Grainy. Full. Mild funk. Soft tannins. Rounded.

Bottle. Side by side 60-40 (60% 1 year old, 40% 2 year old Lambic blend) and 40-60 (40% 1 year old, 60% 2 year old Lambic blend). Color: Both hazy golden to amber, thin white head. 40-60 looking slightly darker when standing next to each other. Aroma: Fruity, hay, subtle funky. 40-60 definitely more intense. Taste: 60-40 Fruity notes of lemon, unripe apricots and gooseberry, some wood, hints of hay, subtle funky, stable-like and light hints of leather. Moderate tartness. 40-60 Again more intense flavors. More wood and funk. Some more tartness. More complexity compared with 60-40. Not surprisingly given the older average age, but nice to compare them side by side. Overall score: 60-40 8 4 8 4 15 =3.9. 40-60 8 4 8 4 17 = 4.1.

One of two new Tilquin geuze variations, mirroring each other in that one contains the opposite composition of the other, both with only one and two year old lambics - no three year old lambic is used and the proportions do not match the legal definition of geuze, which I suppose is why the word "oude" (or, as Tilquin translates it into French, "à l'ancienne") is nowhere to be seen on the label. From a 37.5 cl bottle with cork and muselet, sporting the blue label that distinguishes it from its 'mirror image', which has a yellow label. Quite thick and frothy, briefly crackling, largely regular and very stable, eggshell-white head on a hazy apricot blonde robe with vaguely ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of dried lemon peel, pickled apricots, green plum, wood sorrel, stale sweat, musty old wood, sourdough, kefir, wild apples, hard unripe nectarine, hint of farmland in the end. Crisp, lemony onset, quite some fruity acidity of unripe berries, green apples and green plums round a subtly softer, slightly peachy core - yet firmly sour, the sourness accentuated by a very fizzy, even more than 'champenoise' effervescence. Supple mouthfeel, sourdoughy and bread-crusty but in a lean way, remaining very highly carbonated even for a geuze, and fruity-tart, with additional notes of raw rhubarb and sorrel, as well as an early touch of 'deep' bitterness from old hops, joining with moderately tannic woodiness to constitute a dry finish, in which that crisp, tangy, sharpish, green-fruity acidity still prevails as it did in the beginning. Young still (these two were only released two weeks ago) but refreshingly 'youthful' at that, also because the deeper structures and noble maturity of the three year old lambic are lacking; some will find this a flaw, I think, but of course the whole idea of this set of two is to work with one and two year old lambic alone and there is no denying that this 'little' geuze reflects Tilquin's mastery of the art of lambic blending as well as any other of his blends. Enjoyed it, in all its spritziness, lemony crispness and green-fruity brightness - and surely a side-by-side comparison with its twin is recommended here.