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BXL beerfest 2017

8.8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Opaque purple color. Prickly carbonation, bit no head. Aroma does have plum, yeast, some earth. This is quite sour. It is not comparable to a cantillon or 3F in that regard, bit still quite soir. Fruit in the flavor, yeast, acidic, but I harsh. Some hoeseblanket. Excellent.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

@ BXLfest 2017. Merci à Pierre pour avoir intégrer une autre de mes idées, parfois un peu farfelues, des assemblages Tilquin en l'occasion de ma 10,000ième sur le site. Unique fût ayant déjà plus de 6 mois. La couleur est entre l'orange et couleur prune/acajou, le col est blanc retombant assez rapidement. Arôme offre un bouquet fruité mélangeant bien les deux - mûre et quetsche - fruits avec de fines effluves de prunes arrivant plus en dominance. Retrouve des pointes de funk, et de fines notes de boisé. Palais reste assez sec avec une effervescence moyenne sur faible sans que cela soit trop dérangeant. Note bien fruité avec une prune plus dominante en avant plan et un caractère de mûre arrivant plus en fin de bouche, relevant de ce fait l'effet acidulé. Je note un léger picotement en fin de bouche avec un caractère des divers assemblages qui ressort bien, donnant ce gout typique de Tilquin entre, funk, léger citrique, boisé, cuire.

8.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Clear salmon colour, white head. Aroma of blackberries, prunes, very fruity, citrus, funk. Sour fruity flavour, prunes. Finish blackberry. Lovely beer!
Cheers Seba!
(from draught @ BXL Beer Fest, Brussels. Thanks for sharing today's beers, rb crew!!)

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

BXLBeerfest. Pours hazy red. Aroma is sour, fruity, funky. Flavor is sour, acidic, fruit, some prunes. Finish is sour and bit funky. Overall: very good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Cuvée du familier - Quetsche-Mûre Tilquin - Draft Version on 10 Jul 2018 at 17:35. Original review text: bl

7.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5

Pierre Tilquin’s tribute to his ’familier’ Sebastien Jadot, known as sebletitje here, and the latter’s 10,000th rating on this very site; blend of half Oude Quetsche and half Oude M�re. Enjoyed in the company of sebletitje himself at BXL Beerfest, cheers Sebastien! Moussy, irregular, off-pinkish head, quickly dissolving in the middle, over a cloudy-murky ’brownish dirty’ purplish beer with dark pink tinge. Aroma of sour brambleberries, unripe plums, plum skin, stale sweat, wet leather, berry seeds, unsugared yoghurt, old raspberry vinegar, sourdough, lemon zest. Crisp, sour onset, puckering and lemony, with lots and lots of stonefruit (plum) wryness and wild berry sourness, presumably reflecting the Quetsche and the M�re respectively but tightly interwoven with each other, soft lambrusco-like fizz, cereally and bready basis underneath the ’wave’ of sour and wry fruit with a yoghurty lactic dryness throughout; very dry ending, estery, Bretty hayish and leathery, ongoing sourness, tannin-rich due to fruit seeds and skins in combination with the wood. A blend of two brilliant fruit lambics - there was no way this could go wrong, though I suspect longer conditioning could create something truly epic here. Perhaps sebletitje should try and convince Tilquin to bottle this...?

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Big cheers to Sebletitje! Thank you for sharing RB crew! Sampled draft @ BXLBeerFest 2017. Bright red fruit appearance with no head. Blend is 50/50 but it seemed to me like Mûre dominated a bit. Nose is basic vinegar acidic sour berries, puckering oak. Taste is straightforward acidic vinegar red berries, hugely puckering, lemon… Very nice,… it lacks some carbonation feels a bit watery, a bottle version would totally rock but that isn’t going to happen. Still really nice beer.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Tilquin Cuvée du Familier - Quetsche-Mûre Tilquin - Draft Version (by Gueuzerie Tilquin):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5

27/VIII/17 - on tap @ BXL Beer Fest - BB: n/a (2017-1375) Thanks to the (Belgian) RB crew for sharing today's beers!

Congratz to Seb on his 10K beer!
Bit cloudy orange beer, no head. Aroma: fruity, plums, pretty nice stuff! MF: no carbon, medium body. Taste: very tart start, fruity, bit metallic, plums, bit smoky, lots of tannins, very sour. Aftertaste: dry, mouth puckering acidity, lemon juice, bitter, some more tannins.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

From tap. Pours hazy red. Small pink head. Aroma is wooden, sourish. Dry, sourish, citric. Dry and sourish. Lingering citric and smooth dry fruity. Citric dry far finish.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

@ Brussels Beer Festival. Hazy red/orange colour, white foam. Nose of unripe fruit (plums, berries). Taste is tart, lemony, barnyard. Well balanced. Nice!