Gueuzerie Tilquin
Microbrewery
in Rebecq,
Walloon Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Gueuzerie Tilquin
Established in 2009
The Gueuzerie Tilquin is the first gueuze blendery in Wallonia. The company is located in Bierghes (Rebecq), 200 meters from the linguistic border, and is directed by Pierre Tilquin. Pierre is bio-engineer and holder of a PhD in statistical genetics. He then followed an intensive course in brewing science in Leuven, and he had his experience at the brewery Huyghe (Melle), 3 Fonteinen (Beersel) and Cantillon (Anderlecht).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
375ml from De Bierschuur shared with Alex @ Ryan's deck enjoying a finally arrived warm days.
Aroma: nice funk and horse blanket, some sweetness and minerals.
Taste: along the same lines, kinda more on the mineral side than Tilquin usually is.
Overall: nice one. More preferable for me than 60-40 as it's more intense and prominent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 375mL bottle (bb 16/01/2034; side by side with 60-40). Clear-ish gold with small white head. Dry-ish, more Tilquin tartness than compared to the 60-40, actually get less barnyard character on this bottle. Decent. Blended the last little bit of each and came out with the most balanced version.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 375mL bottle (bb 07/02/2034; side by side with 40-60; louder cork pop of the two beers). Clear-ish bright gold with small white head, more carbonation bubbles. Citrusy funk with some barnyard character, balanced Tilquin tartness. Decent. Blended the last little bit of each and came out with the most balanced version.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Towering pink-purplish head, stable; fully opaque, almost black purple beer. Horseblanket, dark fruit & berries, violets, purple gooseberry, (unripe) elderberries. Cassis juice, elderberry, elderberry syrup thinned, ink. Warming up, the elderberry gets more obvious, gumming the cassis flavour. Feels better bodied, oiler than most real lambics. Very well-carbonated. Special.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Hazed glowing orange. Slim ring of white. Tons of peach here. Fleshy fresh and tinned. Soft wheaty background. Light funk. Light clean oak. Taste is tart super juicy and peachy. Clean lean and very refreshing with fine crisp fizz. Juicy peach tartness to finish. Lovely.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the roost pours a lightly hazy gold with some cloudy white head. Nose does have the stone fruit. Reads more peach than apricot. White berry. Lemon. Light candy. Neutral wood. Green grape. Flavor has apricot and natural wine, floral, perhaps some tart rhubarb sneaking in otherwise it's confirmation bias. Medium full, tart finish.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Petite Gueuze Tilquin from Gueuzerie Tilquin 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tilquin, established in 2009, has surprised lambicophiles more than once before, but usually by applying unlikely fruit species - I remember experiments with lemon or mandarin, to name a few; this is something altogether different, however: the first canned geuze in history, seemingly a continuation of the idea of vatted geuze which Tilquin already introduced years ago. There is, however, some historical background to justify the idea of geuze from tap, something completely lacking for geuze from a can, of course. Jokes about this have been going around for quite some years, with the exploding popularity of cans in craft beer - yet geuze is just one of those beer styles that seemed immune to this trend, until now (and I have to admit that when I first read about this, I too though it was, again, a joke). There is no doubt in my mind that purists will vehemently resist the idea, I believe it very rarely happens that a beer is released with such a potential to spark controversy as this one - so I am really curious not just about the product itself, but about the debates it will probably trigger, and I think Pierre Tilquin himself, not shy to some controversy, will be too... But let us all relax: first of all, a can is able to withstand up to 6 bars of pressure, which is about the amount of pressure in the average geuze bottle, so we do not have to fear exploding cans. Secondly, we all know the enormous ageing potential of a traditional geuze, but this one - even though ageing beer in cans is perfectly possible - was never intended to be tucked away in a cellar, as Sébastien already pointed out below: it is a kind of light-footed, sessionable beer for this summer, to be enjoyed young. And thirdly: it is not technically an 'oude' geuze at all, but a blend of meerts with 2 year old lambic - which is why it has been classified here as 'unblended': though not literally unblended, this category seems to convey the true nature of this "Petite Gueuze" perhaps a bit more accurately than the 'real' geuze category, though admittedly the lines are a bit blurry (but then this can be said of e.g. Boon's Mono Blends too). So, on to this 'little' beer then, coming from a 33 cl can (it is worth noting that the canning was done at Minne). Medium sized, egg-white, tiny-bubbled, slowly breaking but generally well-retaining head on a hazed yellow golden blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge and strings of fine but enthusiastic sparkling. Aroma of Granny Smith apple, considerable farmland and even manure (which lingers for a long time much more so than I am used to even from this genre), lime juice, overripe lemon, wet hay, sorrel, raw rhubarb, some background wood, unripe nectarine, wild berrries, ultra-dry white wine, dried moss, vague note of chalk. Lemony-sour, puckering onset, lime juice, green apple, sour unripe grapes and raw rhubarb - but smooth and refreshing, with minerally effervescence, very finely tingling; slick core, white-bready, dried by this lemony effect, reinforced by lactic acidity and some tannic effects from the wood in the background (subtle as expected). An odd chalky, even somewhat gypsum-like effect runs through it all, a feature I remember to have encountered in some of those Meerts editions Tilquin did a couple of years ago; the finish reprises green apple, lime and unripe grape effects but holds everything together well. Retronasally, quite a lot of that persistent 'freshly fermented farmland' lingers - I guess some consumers would consider this 'funk', but it is more down to earth than that, in a manner of speech. Purely flavour-wise, it does what it promises: a kind of quick, light-bodied, summery but in all respects 'credible' lambic experience - with the meerts being prevalent and indeed very reminiscent of that (fruited) Meerts series of 2022. Nothing to be shocked or spooked about, but I personally still prefer a fully developed, aged, corked and bottled geuze, for complexity and maturity alone.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Bottle from De Bierliefhebber. Almost clear orange without head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity, wood and barnyard. Flavor is medium sweet and rather acidic. Dry and rather acidic finish. 270625
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bouteille 37.5cl dégustée en parallèle avec la version 60/40. BB 16/01/2034.
Dorée sur un léger voile que je trouve un tantinet plus foncé que la version 60/40, col peu teance sur la blanc-cassé.
Arôme reprend un peu de ce que j'ai trouvé sur la version 60/40 mais ici, je trouve un côté malts/céréales plus présents avec une pointe sur le caramel. Je note aussi ce côté abricot - noyaux, voire amande.
Palais sur un acarctère cliarement différent de sa consoeur. Le lambic de deux ans se démrquent, je trouve le tout plus balancé, et fruité aussi. Effet boisé qui ressort plus, plus fleuri, notes agrumes-citron, pamplemousse rose voire pointe d'orange sanguine avec une fine minéralité de fin de bouche. Fruité renforcé qui vient rappelet l'abricot et la reine claude.
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