Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne

Description

Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne is a gueuze blended from Boon, Lindemans, Girardin, and Cantillon lambic. It is typically comprised of 50% one-year old lambic, 30% two-year old lambic, and 20% three-year old lambic. However, the first season of bottling was 60% one-year old lambic and 40% two-year old lambic as there was no three-year old lambic available for the blend. It is available in 375ml and 750ml bottles and is labeled as 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
02/02/2021	2010-2011	750mL	Japanese import label
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
16/03/2022	2011-2012	375ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
21/03/2022	2011-2012	375ml	12% Imports, USA
26/03/2022	2011-2012	375ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
29/03/2022	2011-2012	750ml	Imported by Phoenix Beers, Australia	N/A
14/12/2022	2012-2013	750ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
12/02/2023	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
16/01/2024	2013-2014	750ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
21/02/2024	2013-2014	375ml	European bottling -- "REF C 1314" Cork	N/A
20/03/2024	2013-2014	750ml	12% Imports, USA, neck sticker reading "Open carefully. Contents under high pressure"	N/A
10/11/2024	2014-2015	375ml	European bottling -- "REF A 1415" Cork	N/A
17/11/2024	2014-2015	375ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
20/11/2024	2014-2015	750ml	European bottling -- "REF A 1415" Cork	N/A
24/02/2025	2014-2015	750ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
04/03/2025	2014-2015	375ml	12% Imports, USA -- "DIAM C 1415" Cork	N/A
19/03/2025	2014-2015	750ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
17/11/2025	2015-2016	375ml	European bottling -- "DIAM A 1516" cork	N/A
17/11/2025	2015-2016	375ml	12% Imports, USA
14/12/2025	2015-2016	750ml	European label, Canada import -- "DIAM B 1516" cork	N/A
16/02/2026	2015-2016	750ml	12% Imports, USA -- "DIAM C 1516" cork	N/A
25/02/2026	2015-2016	375ml	12% Imports, USA -- "DIAM C 1516" cork	N/A
09/03/2026	2015-2016	750ml	12% Imports, USA -- "DIAM C 1516" cork	N/A
09/11/2026	2015-2015	750ml	12% Imports, USA
17/11/2026	2016-2017	750ml	12% Imports, USA -- "DIAM A 1617" cork
23/11/2026	2016-2017	375ml	European label
30/11/2026	2016-2017	375ml	12% Imports, USA
16/03/2027	2016-2017	375ml	12% Imports, USA
22/03/2027	2016-2017	750ml	European bottling -- "DIAM E 1617" cork
19/12/2027	2017-2018	750ml	12% Imports, USA	N/A
09/03/2018	2017-2018	750ml	12% Imports, USA
19/03/2028	2017-2018	1.5L	European label
22/03/2028	2017-2018	750ml	European label
07/11/2018	2018-2019	750ml	12% Imports, USA