Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen Strenge Winter (Season 19|20) Blend No. 53

Strenge Winter (Season 19|20) Blend No. 53
(Batch of Strenge Winter)

 

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Lambic Style - Faro Special
Score
7.59
ABV: 7.1% IBU: - Ticks: 8
Strenge Winter – previously known under a slightly different name – is a special brew and blend. On January 19th 2018, we brewed a full barley malt beer wort, with pilsner, amber and munich malt (but no raw wheat). Whilst on the coolship, we added brown candi sugar. We left this beer to age for over two years on both barrels and small foeders. Prior to bottling, we blended the beer with some young 3 Fonteinen lambic and added a tad more candi sugar. This beer is brewed to Armand’s original recipe! (but #notlambic)
 

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Säuerlicher, dennoch ausgesprochen weicher Beginn. Süffig, angenehm holzig, minimal Karamell. Holzig-säuerlich bleibend mit Nuancen von Beeren, weich, geringe Bitterkeit. Langer weicher Abgang und Nachgeschmack. 10/12/12/12/11/12

Tried on 22 Apr 2022 at 20:33


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared. Clear amber to mahogany, small beige head. Quite some funk, oak, caramel, indeed some candi sugar but it’s more citrussy and mineral than sweet. Lots of cellar funk, leathery too. Medium sweet and a bit more sour. Also some not-lambic bitterness. Over medium bodied. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2022 at 19:47


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

No head but off-white rim over veiled copper-orange-ochre beer. Wood, lactic acid, lemon, farmyard, milkchocolate, swimming pool, spunk. Weird - but good. Dry lemony lambic, hints of caramel syrup, but no real sweetness. Old wet wood. Refreshing, if less than classical gueuze/lambic. Sharp acidburning, long dry finish. Great, if slightly less than Straffe Winter.

Tried from Bottle at Beerlovers Bar on 12 Apr 2021 at 09:00


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Pours a warm amber. No real head. Scent is intense, malty, light funk. Taste is full, medium tart. Full on malty, like rye bread almost. A slight hint of smoke, almost. Amber malty, light Carbo. Bit sharp. Very nice, but not as good as straffe winter was.

Tried on 20 Mar 2021 at 16:09


7

Hapu, puuviljane, sidrun, tamm, linnased, happeline suht, veits herbaalne, linnased. Hea.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Feb 2021 at 21:44


8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Semi-hazy ruby-brown pour with a thin off-white head. Tons of oak, grape vinegar, apple cider vinegar, bitter cherries, lambic funk. A really enjoyable beer, probably the first faro I actually like. A beautiful winter beer.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jan 2021 at 19:17



7

Slodowo-dzikie, pozytywne zaskoczenie w sumie. Dosc ciezkie. Ale ryli fajniuchne

Tried from Bottle at Kamienica Hoża 41 on 21 Dec 2020 at 19:40