Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne

Description
Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne is a gueuze blended from Boon, Lindemans, Girardin, and Cantillon lambic at 6.4% ABV.
History / Other Notes
Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne was first made commercially available in May of 2011, and it received label approval for distribution in the United States on May 24, 2011.[1] It comes with a best-by date in dd/mm/yyyy format as well as a neck label with the vintage season. The first round of bottles were released with a 2010-2011 neck label and subsequent batches have followed a similar pattern.
It can be deduced that the date on the reverse label is designed to be read as a bottling date as well. The first batch, labeled as 1er soutirage or "first racking' has a best by date on 10/12/2020 and a neck label of 2010-2011. This would mean that it was bottled on December 10, 2010. Oude Geuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne is released yearly in several batches/bottlings. The 1er soutirage bottling was initially given to friends of Tilquin and was later available to purchase online for a short period of time.
All Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne bottles with a 2010-2011 neck label are a blend of one- and two-year old lambics, with the brewery having received their first batch of wort in 2009.
Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne is currently the only commercial gueuze on the market to contain lambic from Cantillon.
Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne Bottle Log
| Best-by Date
(dd/mm/yyyy) |
Neck Label | Bottle Size | Label / Notes | Image Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/12/2020 | 2010-2011 | 750ml | European bottling, Label says "1er Soutirage" (first racking) and is numbered | N/A |
| 11/12/2020 | 2010-2011 | 750ml | European bottling | N/A |
| 22/01/2021 | 2010-2011 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF A 1011" Cork | N/A |
| 10/02/2021 | 2010-2011 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF A 1011" Cork | N/A |
| 15/02/2021 | 2010-2011 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF B 1011" Cork | N/A |
| 18/02/2021 | 2010-2011 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF B 1011" Cork | N/A |
| 01/03/2021 | 2010-2011 | 375ml | N/A | |
| 02/03/2021 | 2010-2011 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF B 1011" Cork | N/A |
| 04/03/2021 | 2010-2011 | 375ml | European bottling, sold in Canda "REF B 1011" Cork | N/A |
| 05/03/2021 | 2010-2011 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 15/04/2021 | 2010-2011 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF C 2011" Cork | N/A |
| 15/12/2021 | 2011-2012 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 03/01/2022 | 2011-2012 | 375ml | European bottling | N/A |
| 18/01/2022 | 2011-2012 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF B 1112" Cork | N/A |
| 31/01/2022 | 2011-2012 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA -- "REF A 1112" Cork | N/A |
| 09/02/2022 | 2011-2012 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 31/02/2022 | 2011-2012 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 05/03/2022 | 2011-2012 | 375ml | Imported by Phoenix Beers, Australia | N/A |
| 21/03/2022 | 2011-2012 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 26/03/2022 | 2011-2012 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 29/03/2022 | 2011-2012 | 750ml | Imported by Phoenix Beers, Australia | N/A |
| 02/12/2023 | 2012-2013 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 22/03/2023 | 2012-2013 | 750ml | European bottling, some with neck sticker reading "Open carefully. Contents under high pressure" | N/A |
| 16/01/2024 | 2013-2014 | 750ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
| 08/01/2024 | 2013-2014 | 375ml | 12% Imports, USA | N/A |
Label Log
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U.S. label, 750ml
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U.S. label, back
References
- ↑ TTB Label Approval, Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne, 2011