7

Hapu, funky, tsitrus, happeline, nisune, veits vesine. Ok, pigem mahe.

8

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

Panda courtesy of Theydon_Bois, cheers Colin! Golden colour, white foam head and aroma of bretty funk, sour fruit, citric rind. Taste is sour, funky, pale malt, biscuit, tart fruity, with citrus rind, some acidity and bitterness. Medium bodied, light carbonation, drying soured finish. Nicely drinkable.

8.3

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

Great stuff, grassy, low funk, dried citrus, woody twang. Solid.

8.3

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

8.3

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

Bottle shared a t craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. A light hazed golden orange coloured pour with a a halo of white head. Aroma is sour. Wet grass, light dung, dry white wine vinous funk. Flavour is composed of sour tangy white grape, s
Mellow sour, crisp, sour tangy, dry white wine. Palate is super crisp tart sour, highish carbonation. Good.

7.8

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

Pours a clear, slightly darker blonde with a medium foam of medium low stability. Scent is very full and robust, mineral, tocuh smokey almost (oak char?), woody and brett. Taste is full, very brett and funk forward, but also woody. Medium acidity. Very dry. Citrussy acidity, which is a great balance towards all the more 'heavy' aroma's, it's lifting up the geuze to be a bit more fresh. Medium body with a high (slightly too high for me) carbonation. Overall, a pretty damn solid geuze - but (appart from the cool concept!) not going beyond that. For my personal taste slightly to dry as well - but than again some others will love it exactly because of this.

9

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

Bottle. Caves Ermitage. Hazed glowing rich gold. Slim sturdy semi lacing glossy topped white foam. Nose has super juicy tart dessert apple. Sweet citrus with notes of ripe orange and lemon. Bit of zested lime. Then there’s the new leather bretty oaky funk. Buggy and twangy. Taste is semi sweet with a tart and tangy juicy folllow up. Overall unputdownable with more juicy tartness to finish. Loads of flavour, minimal acidity and huge drinkability. Class.

8.1

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

750ml at Moeder Lambic Original shared with Travis.
Nice funk, horse blanket, smooth, light sweetness and fruitiness. Taste is very smooth, has nice minerals. Nice one, maybe less prominent than Arthur, but also may be a bit more sophisticated.
9☆4☆8☆4☆16

9

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

One of the last set of Tilquin "family tree" geuzes, honouring Pierre Tilquin's great-grandmother; of all the family tree geuzes made so far, this one contains the highest proportion of two year old geuze, the same proportion that is normally - in the 'average' geuze - reserved for one year old lambiek. Medium thick, snow white, dense, lightly lacing, somewhat irregularly edged but initially well-retaining head, eventually dissipating over a misty warm peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge and steady, very fine-bubbled, dense and fairly 'calmly' moving sparkling throughout. Aroma of halfripe apricot, oxidized green apple slices, yellow plum, some 'nutty' dry sherry, dusty attic, a dried rose bouquet, hints of wet leather, grass silage, old dried lemon peel, tarragon vinegar, moss, rainwater, vague chlorine faraway in the background (a feature I most typically associate with aged Boon lambic). Crisp onset, spritzy effervescence but in a fine-bubbled, lambrusco-like way, accentuating underlying minerality, while estery fruity notes develop, tart in a 'malse' way and reminiscent of oxidized green apple, green plum and gooseberry - but also a softer, almost sweeter hint in its core, apricot-like. Supple, vinous body, ongoing minerality and a long stretch of lactic sourness in a very 'vivid', fruity way, piercing through a smoothly bready backbone carrying the tart fruitiness onwards as well as that apricot-like touch. A very light sherry-like nuttiness appears at the back, along with tannic woodiness and leathery Brett effects, all comined into general dryness, but somehow a 'juiciness' is retained to balance it - probably that (only halfripe) apricot element again. Lemon juice-like flavours remain after all this has passed, most refreshingly so, while retronasally, this lovely 'sherry nuttiness' pops up one last time before fading. Not that I was expecting anything different considering the consistently high quality level of these family tree geuzes - I had all those which preceded this one and literally all of them were great examples of the style - but this is again a masterpiece in geuze blending, showcasing the aged, but still supple and lively, juicy character of the two year old lambic, the star of the show. This geuze is distinguished by a more pronounced minerality, a softer apricot-like accent and sherry-like nutty elegance in comparison with the others, and the overall result is stunning. For me, this one is certainly among the best so far - the best of the best, one should say in this case. Impressive.

8.3

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

Bottle, directly from Tilquin. Color: Lightly hazy orangish golden, dense and stable white head. Aroma: Funky, white berries, hay, wood. Taste: Moderate tart white berries and lime, rural and lightly leathery funk, oak wood. Some old hop. Lightly creamy mouthfeel. Dry-ish finish. Very nice!