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

75 cl bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a deep orange glare. Small tan head. Aroma is fruity, sourish and toasted malty. Bitter, sourish and slight fruity. Dry and sourish. Fruity finsh.

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

Bottle shared at Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering ’17. Clear brown with a tan head. Aroma of dry cellar funk, citrus, chocolate, oak. Flavour is moderate sweet and sour with above light bitterness. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Special edition of the ’versnijbier’ of a dubbel (Rulles Brune) and a lambic known as Stout Rullquin, this one with higher alcohol content due to a second fermentation on oak barrels after a ’failed’ bottling, according to the same principle the ’squared geuze’ from the same blender was made, with exciting results. From a 75 cl bottle with cork bought at Tilquin’s own premises during Toer de Geuze. Highly pressurized but no gushing. Thick, frothy, regularly shaped, off-white, moussy head, lightly lacing, crowning an initially clear, deep but translucent burgundy coloured beer with coppery tinge, turning ever more clouded as emptying of the bottle progresses and becoming a bronze-tinged murky brown in the end. Aroma of dry hazelnuts, a peculiar and strong smell of Camembert cheese, hard butterscotch, dry sherry, ripe blueberries, dry forest floor, yoghurt with ’forest fruit’ but without the sugar, Merlot wine with lots of tannins, red wine vinegar somewhere even but subtly so, stale sweat, unripe pear, old blanket, wood, fermenting tree leaves, unripe blue plum, sour cherries, fainter hints of coffee grounds, sour apple peel, green walnuts, hay, touch of ’oude jenever’. Fruity and estery onset, very low and restrained in sweetness, much more dominated by a tartness reminiscent of blueberries, blackcurrant and hard unripe nectarine, wry-ish with a finely tingling, lambrusco-like effervescence, lively and spritzy but in a refined, crisp, ’crystalline’ kind of way; supple yet dry mouthfeel. The lively lambic esteriness and wryness of sour berries and hard stonefruit continues over a background of nutty and eventually even toasted maltiness, subdued in caramel sweetness, with even a mildly but unmistakably bittering touch in the end, reinforced by a dash of earthy, deeply situated hops; wood tannins add to a strong, appetizing dryness in the end and considering this beer was in barrels two times in total, seem to have a more profound effect than in the regular version. Ends with ongoing, very dry tartness and wryness, tannic dryness and juicy but equally dry and tart fruit flavours (grape peel, blueberry, sour cherry); alcohol, though significant at 8+%, is all but unnoticeable, though I feel a certain warmth going down after swallowing. Interesting beer, I am not the greatest fan of the regular Stout Rullquin but admittedly putting it back into the barrel for extended ageing proves an interesting experiment; this is - or has meanwhile become - a bone dry beer, a sour dubbel in certain ways (the term ’stout’ is neither appropriate for the regular version nor for this one), with all residual sweetness having been ’eaten’ by the lambic yeasts I suspect, and with the woody tannins having seeped into the beer to a higher degree, adding further dryness. The earthy, almost dry tree leaf-like qualities of Rulles Brune are significantly enlarged here - as is also the case in the regular version - resulting in something that will probably appeal most to those who are into ’oud bruin’, because the ultimate result comes very close to that. Dry, earthy, appetizing beer, a ’versnijbier’ pur sang in the most classical way like the regular one, just stronger (and therefore more aromatic), drier and more tannic, with a more expressive lambic character thanks to additional exposure to the lambic yeast strains, I assume. Not a beer to anybody’s liking I guess, but for me this works, though I already regret not having had the patience to cellar it for a long time...

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

Bottle - Great gueuze funk and just a touch of the dark malty roast. Deep brown with a nice beige head. Petroleum and citrus funk with just a hint of roast and earthiness. This is much better than the original, personally because the gueuze is much more dominant. Nicely done.

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

Bottle at tdg2017. Pours black, good and very stable, fluffy white head. Smell is dark grains, with a refreshing sour note. Taste is rather sour, dry. Black malt notes. Nice, especially since I usually don’t enjoy sour stouts that much.

Slodki, agresywny taki, dziki dosc mocno, owocowy, kwasnosc w posmakach glownie, alko czuc, jest tez ocet. Troche lepszy troche gorsze od 1 --- Beer merged from original tick of (Stout Rullquin)² (2012-2013) on 18 Feb 2021 at 09:15

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

Bottle. Dark nearly opaque brown color, scant head. Aroma of fruity coffee, subtle vanilla. Taste is sour coffee and dark fruit, Interesting combo.

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

Bouteille, que dire, nombreuses bouteilles partagées au fil du projet ² et de l’idée initiale. Merci Pierre. Offre une robe tirant sur la brun voire acajou, le col est fin légèrement beige et tirant vers le blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez complexe offrant la signature de Rullquin - avec encore pas mal de traces de malt chocolaté et de fines effluves de ’funk’ lambic arrivant en rétro. Ici, le tout est renforcé, quoique avec parcimonie, par de belles effluves de vin rouge qui renforce la sensation olfactive d’un assemblage montant en alcool. Le palais est tout autant complexe, retrouve une certaine épaisseur de bouche au niveau de la base stout de Rulles qui est magnifiée, ou vice versa, par l’ajout de lambic. Le palais conserve un solide caractère oscillant entre fruité noir et rouge des barriques fraiches sans que ces dernières ne viennent dominer le produit. Retrouve en fin de bouche une note grillée ponctuée par un apport chaleureux de vin/alcool qui s’immisce après chaque gorgée. Solide et curieux de voir comment tout cela va évoluer avec le temps.

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

[Thank you for sharing everyone!][750 ml. bottle sampled][Idea by Sebletitje] Bottle states 2013 - original brew date? Dark brown, little tanned head. Nose carries glue, lambic character comes across as being oddly glue-like, raisins, prunes & sugar. Rulles Brune dominates totally, it lacks all complexity, nuance here, syrupy fizzy prune & dark fruits beer with mocha, grainy artificial chocolate, lambiek seems almost oddly absent & this already has a lot of age. Overall this comes across as a sub-par Belgian Ale, lesser than the 2 beers used to make this & I actually quite like the regular Rullquin, far more than most but this did nothing for me. Body is bit lively, basic thin aged chocolate grainy Belgian Ale body.