Bottle
Tilquin Oude Mûre à l'Ancienne
Gueuzerie Tilquin, Bierghes
Blackberries fermented in young lambic, blended with one- to three-year-old lambic.
Legend has it
Blackberries have a legend of their own, told across Britain and Ireland. When St Michael cast Lucifer out of heaven, the story goes, he landed straight in a bramble thicket. Ever since, on Michaelmas, 29 September, the Devil takes his revenge by spitting on the berries, and anyone who picks them after that day has only himself to blame. In some places he tramples them instead, or waves his club over them. Behind the tale lies country sense: by late autumn the berries turn mouldy and flyblown.
Beer stories travel from brewery to bar to guest, and rarely shrink on the way.
Interesting facts
- A Scottish berry
- Loch Ness is a thornless blackberry variety. Derek Jennings crossed it in 1978 at the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee, and it gives large, firm, deep black berries.
- The second batch
- In July 2015 Tilquin received 3,000 kilos of fresh blackberries from Germany. They were split across three tanks, 1,000 kilos in each, which were then topped up with lambic.
- First outside Flanders
- In 2012 Tilquin joined HORAL, the High Council for Artisanal Lambic Beers, as its first member outside Flanders.
Especially good with
Goat cheese salad, waffle with chocolate or Belgian truffle.