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% 1-year-old lambic, 30% 2-year-old lambic, and 20% 3-year old lambic. However, the first season of bottling was 60% 1-year-old lambic and 40% 2-year-old lambic as there was no 3-year-old lambic available for the blend. It is available in 375 mL and 750 mL bottles and 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
Label Log
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U.S. label, 750 mL
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U.S. label, back
References
- ↑ TTB Label Approval, Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne, 2011