Score
7.71
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Psyched to have tried this one ! apparently, half of the bottles were dead flat, so it was taken from the menu. However, a forgotten bottle in the fridge was shared when I was there, on a moment i felt bad about missing out on this one. Sheer luck, right place, right time, and a right bottle. This was straight up awesomejuice. Pours clear blonde, no real head. Smell is quince, ina very citrussy, green way. Taste is full, sharp , acidic, dry. Clear quince, dry woody finish with loads of fruit. Doughy finish. love it ! enough funk and dryness to balance the strong fruit presence. Yet a delicate, yet clear tartness. One of the best 3 f beers to date to me !
A new line in the ongoing series of “Twists of Fate” experiments by 3F: a quince lambic, and the first one I encounter apart from a similar experiment by Tilquin last year. Only 79 bottles of this were made apparently, available only for on-site consumption at the Lambik-O-Droom. Refermentation and carbonation seems to have been a bit of an issue with this one, as about one in three bottles were undercarbonated, and not served to customers as a result – sadly, because I got a glass of an undercarbonated one and it was perfectly enjoyable, provided you are used to drinking ‘platte lambiek’… Anyway, this rating concerns the ‘correctly carbonated’ version, shared with Didier and Filip. Thick, even rocky, egg-white, dense and stable head, warm deep and pure yellow- to ‘old’ golden robe, initially clear, turning misty with sediment, with indeed a ‘storm’ of sparkling rushing through the glass like in a glass of sparkling wine. Aroma indeed quince, if interpreted as something in between green Granny Smith apple and hard Conference pear, next to hints of lemon peel, plum kernels, dry wood, unripe peach, whitecurrant, very dry cider, grape peel, minerals, hay, old bread crust. Spritzy, extremely crisp onset with a whole lot of ‘yellow-green’, very lightly sweetish fruitiness with a strong green apple and unripe pear character from the quince, spritzy in carbonation, plum-, lime- and grape-like sour accents and in all refreshingly acidic from the quince (so relatively ‘soft’ and nowhere unpleasantly puckering) connecting with the ‘deep’ lactic sourness that stretches through the whole. Supple bread-crusty core, lots of green apple-ness continuing till the finish, where a light bitter note appears, aided by dry-tannic effects from the wood as well as the quince (peel). This was an absolutely fantastic drinking experience again, complex and supple at the same time, with the crispness and astringent juiciness of biting into a Granny Smith apple. Bright, refreshing and profound, this is 3F fruit lambic mastery many – if not all – sour beer producers in the world should learn from. A masterpiece, too bad it was made so limitedly!