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 - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
0.75l with Tomo Š & Ogi, at Ambasada, thx T! Hazy golden body pierced by lively carbonation, tiny head gone soon. Fresh, tart aroma, light rhubarb, distinct. Lean, dry taste, rhubarb, low glue-like funk, bitterish, fresh, appley. Nice in a way!
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 10
Bottle from Raynville Superstore. It pours clear golden - blonde with a thick, fluffy head. The aroma is exquisite, bright, zingy, tangy, crunchy granny smith apple, apple crumble, grape must, lime sherbet, dry wood, deep funk, barnyard, vanilla custard, heady notes of fruity whisky, pain aux raisin, dried fruits and fruit pudding. The taste is crisp, bone dry, tart, puckering, minerality, lemon-lime, sherbet, candied lemon, gooseberry, crunchy white grape, raisin, sultana, whisky-soaked fruit cake, vanilla custard, pain aux raisin, nip of acidity, fruity whisky, dry wood, funk, dull barnyard and a touch of acidity with a none dry, whisky finale. Medium body and prickly, effervescent carbonation. Astounding. As a lover of both lambic and whisky, I feel this brings the two together in perfect harmony. Exquisite. Lovely balance. Hard to fault.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Aus der Flasche (bbe 21.01.2031) im 2025-08 getrunken. Dieses trübe, gelbe Ale kombiniert hervoragend den Mirabellen Einfluss mit klassischen Gueuze und Farmhaouse-Aromen miteinander. Der Säuregehalt ist sehr gut ausbalanciert und mit dem kräftigen Körper bekommt man ein wunderbares Ale ins Glas!
Scopey (25061) reviewed Gueuze 60-40 from Gueuzerie Tilquin 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
375ml bottle at home with Mrs Scopey. It opens with a pop which kicks up the sediment. Pour is hazy depe golden with a fluffy white head. The aroma is dry oak, minerality, chalky, floral, damp hay, tangy citrus, gooseberry, lime peel, margarita, dirty funk and white grape skin. The taste is crisp, firmly dry, touch of bitterness, decent nip of acidity, white grape, gooseberry, citrus peel, salty lime, margarita, minerality, chalky, dry funk, barnyard and sherbet with a drying, chalky finish. Average body and moderate+ foamy carbonation. Really enjoyable. You definitely get a younger lambic element to this. Tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Aus der Flasche (bbe 16.02.2031) im 2025-08 getrunken. Dieses violette Hollunder-Lambik kommt wie schon andere aus der "Oude à l'Ancienne"-Serie in einer wundervollen Harmonie zwischen Frucht, Säuregehalt und Körper daher. Hier macht sich ein deutliches Eichen-Aroma von der Fassreifung bemerkbar. Wieder ein wunderbares Frucht-Lambik!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Aus der Flasche (bbe 26.01.2031) im 2025-08 getrunken. Dieses purpurne Brombeer-Lambik kommt mit einer perfekten Kombination aus Frucht- und leichten Farmhouse Aroma daher. Der Säuregehalt ist gut balanciert. Klasse Arbeit am Braukessel!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
One of the two 'whisky geuzes' released by Tilquin a while ago and apparently the less rare of the two, but also the more 'daring', in using a peated whisky - we all know how smokiness and sourness are not typically best friends, so this must be a bit of a challenge, I suspect... Shared with Craftmember and Goedele. Off-white, cobweb-lacing, coarse and thick, stable head over a hazy apricot blonde robe with ochre hue. Aroma of dried lemon peel, clear iodine-like peat piercing through (a bit 'clinical' even but that was to be expected), preserved apricots, dry old wood, green gooseberry, wild apples, old cracked leather, some barnyard and a peppery note probably coming from the whisky. Tart, estery onset, rounded sour apple, gooseberry, redcurrant and rhubarb notes, medium carb - a tad less effervescent than is typical for a geuze perhaps, but lovely soft, smooth mouthfeel; a bready base is pierced by fruity lactic acidity, yoghurty and lemony, meeting with tannic woody effects and Bretty funkiness (wet leather). The latter is enhanced by the peated whisky, with a pronounced iodine-like retronasal effect, yet somehow it does not overpower the subtleties of the lambic - it is rather another layer of flavour carefully draped on top of it. The whisky adds a whiff of sweetness in the end as it tends to do, but not to the point that the lambic features are lost (as was the case in some preceding 'whisky geuzes' by other producers), so that all ends as complex, elegant, drying and funky as any good Tilquin lambic. Granted, 'peated' geuze is a very narrow segment in the lambic world, even narrower than 'whisky geuze' in general, but the very few that preceded this one are no match for Tilquin's mastery of balance and elegance. The best of a very select group of very specific beers - it took me a while to appreciate that iodine-like character of 'peatedness', but that was years ago, and now that I mastered it, I can honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed this inaccessible but very well made blend, just as much as I enjoyed it non-peated congener.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Keg at Grove, Huddersfield - Cloudy golden body, thin white top. Tart and acidic white grape kick, lots of citrus, funky sourness, little woody aftertaste. Propper cheek puckerer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
0,75l bottle shared at home. Vintage 20/21. Deep red cloudy color, small white head. smells berry notes, jammy, funky, oak, earthy. Very nice smell. full body soft carbonation. tastes berry notes, jammy, earthy, funky, bit leathery, grassy, citric, salty. finishes dry and light to medium sour with notes of berries, funk and citrus. Very nice one, lovely balance between funk and berry notes. Great balance.
8, 8, 9, 8, 9
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