TILQUIN (GUEUZERIE)

The Ancient Gueuze, The Ancient Quetsche, Gueuze in the front shaft, Stout Rulgin

Small event in the world of spontaneous fermentation in spring 2011: the first gueuzery is open in the Brabant Walloon , more precisely.in Bierghes  Although, this town is only a few kilometres from Brussels and a few hundred meters from Flandre, but the reason of this success is due to the connection of different regions and its location which is close to the Pajottenland so that the newcomer of this area of gueuze will have more opportunities to expand the production of wild yeasts unique to the valley of Senne.

Originating in Wépion but he lived in Brussels, Pierre Tilquin, forty-something, a young training bio-engineer, who loves this anchoring Walloon. Indeed, he likes to present his " Gueuze Tilquin in the old-fashioned way" as "a perfect example of Flemish collaboration , Wallonne and Brussels ways with lambics of Pajottenland and Brussels matured and assembled in Wallonie". In fact, if there's no activity of mixing is currently undertaken in the facilities of Bierghes, Pierre Tilquin orders various musts from Boon, Lindemans, Girardin and Cantillon in order to ferment those in its 260 barrels of oak tree.

Two years after running out of his first bottles of gueuze, Pierre Tilquin presented his first try and it was successful, having simplicity since it's made of quetsches, a variety of very popular plums in the region of its production. Nevertheless the quantities of quetsches plums was limited in the region in recent years, the gueuze producer travelled in Alsace in order to obtain supplies.

After this successful experience, this guy plans to do other profits from his products. Meanwhile, Stout Rulquin get noticed in autumn 2014. To achieve this, Pierre prepared the 7/8th with one of his favorite brunes, Rulles brune, and 1/8th of a combining of lambics. And then he left the overall eight month in the barrels of oak tree. The annual production of the gueuzery is estimated at 600 hectolitres. Twenty percent are sold in Belgium and the remaining was placed abroad, the majority is (40%) in the United States.