Intens Rood (Season 19|20) Blend No. 79
(Batch of Intens Rood Oude Kriek Geturfd (PX))
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.69
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While looking for old sherry barrels, we cannot get lucky all the time. While we will be sourcing barrels directly from bodegas to assure provenance and quality, we had a batch of Pedro Ximenez (PX) barrels that was on the peated side (albeit subdued). As a result, we decided not to use them for Zenne y Frontera, but to blend them with other (fruit) lambikken into geuze and fruit blends.
This is the first of such blends to be released. Sour cherries were macerated partly on young peated lambik and partly on two-year old straight lambik in a stainless steel tank. We blended with young and three-year old (!) lambik. 55% of the blend is old lambik and the final fruit intensity is 567 grams of sour cherries per litre.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
29/I/22 - 75cl bottle @ Alengrin’s place, BB: 26/X/40, bottled: 7/X/20 (2022-130) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Pretty cloudy deep red brown beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, lots of cherries, somewhat spicy, dry and dusty impression, some alcohol. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very dry start, lots and lots of cherries, bitter touch, dry, good stuff. Aftertaste: nice acidity, fruity, lots and lots of ripe cherries, overripe cherries, cherry pits, some almonds, very nice, lovely!
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
0,75l bottle at home shared by me. deep red color, small white head. smells of cherries, subtle smoke more like a leathery smell, marzipan, stone fruits, rather funky. nice to very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes of cherries, funky, cheesy, citric, subtle leather, subtle sweet sherry notes. finishes dry and light to medium sour with notes of cherries, funk and some lactic sourness. very nice one, peated notes are very very subtle, for me more noticeable in the smell with some leathery notes. had some sweet sherry notes at first, but cherries take over after a while, also gets more lactic sour with warmth. wishing for some more peated or sherry notes, cherries too dominant.
Hapu, puuviljane, kirss, nats sõnnikune, happeline, veits mineraalne. Hea, aga liialt happeline. 3.6
Very woody, intense cherries, hint of Sherry. Will be more amazing in a few years.
One of the things I was looking forward to was this sherry IR. And it paid off. Incredibly juicy cherries, rich and lightly tart, marred with sweet sherry and funky lambic. Super bright and intense flavours, absolutely lovely.