Established in 1953
Molenstraat 47 Lot 1651
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Pours cmear amber with a slight red glow. Small layer of foam stays surprisingly long. Scent is strongly tart, strawberry, tad acetic, wood, less cherry forward. Taste is full, very tart (acidic, slightly acetic) and very dry. Strong wood presence (bit of a bite) mild velpon like aroma. Strawberry takes the lead in terms of fruit, but is lower than anticipated (at this point, might be due to age) Cherry seems hidden but delivers some pit-aroma (marzepan/almond touch) Light body with medium high carbo. Ends dry, puckering, and tart. Overall a very decent beer at this point in time, I prefered the one I had fresh though.
Bottle from a trade. Thanks Matt! Pours a mostly clear ruby with light orange, amber highlights and a small head that dissipates quickly. Lovely notes of cherry skin, stone and tart cherry flesh with oak, must and cobwebs all present. Rich tart cherry notes on the palate with lingering fruit flesh and skin notes. Drying finish. Stellar.
Pours darker blonde, small white head. Scent is very mushroomy, oak. Very funky . Lovely ! Taste is funky, tart, dry, oaky, mild mushroomy, pretty amazing, one of the better A&G blends !
0,75l bottle at home. Blend #26 20/21. Deep red color, small white head. smells leathery, cherries, grapes, subtle tannins. Nice to very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes cherry notes, cherry pits, grape notes, leathery, peppery. finishes dry and light to medium sour with notes of cherries, leathery and grape notes. Very good one
8, 7.5, 7.5, 7, 7.5
How: Bottle.
Where: Systembolaget.
Appearance: Amber colour with a small white head.
Aroma: Some fruit, sour, honey, a bit acidic.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Some fruit, a bit acidic, honey.
15 October 2023. At In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst. Cheers to Kim, Tim & Shmupi for sharing!
°87, season 17/18, bottled: 18/10/2018.
Hazy red, small, foamy, pinkish/off-white head. Aroma of blackcurrant, unripe raspberry, yoghurt, sour cream, lemon peel, artisan fruit jam, marzipan, attic, vague speculoos even. Taste has very sour blackcurrant, some blueberry and cherry flesh wrapped into a sweetish malt profile of sourdough, yoghurt & almond; funky lemon & lactic acid notes around it. Very tart finish of red fruit & berries, a bit spicy, vaguely peppery almost, but mostly fruity and eventually woody-tannic too. Medium body, moussy texture, average carbonation. Very intense, deep, layered fruited Lambic; lovely!
Clear amber beer with a beige head. Aroma of sour reddish malt, red grapes, wood, vinegar. Taste of sour grapes, cherries, brett, red apples, sulfur.
0,75l bottle at home. yellow clear color, small white head. smells piney, funky, earthy. full body, soft carbonation. tastes pines, funky, grassy, earthy. finishes lightly dry and light sour with notes of grassy, funky and piney notes. Very nice one
8, 8, 8.5, 8, 8.5
Special edition of 3 Fonteinen geuze, created from lambics that were aged on various sherry barrels with – quote the brewery – ‘highly peated characteristics’, backblended with ‘normal’ lambic. Bottle under high pressure, but no gushing. Thick and frothy, egg-white, slowly breaking head over a hazy beige-hued peach blonde robe. Aroma indeed reminiscent of very dry sherry (and strongly so), toasted pine nuts, walnut skin, some dry peat indeed but nothing like the iodine-like effects you get from a peated whisky barrel aged beer, lots of old wood, dusty attic, wet leather, peach kernels, dried lemon zest, straw, old dried fenugreek leaf, very dry cider, unripe peach. Crisp, tart onset, dry and vividly carbonated (as befits any geuze of course); dried lemon peel, unripe nectarine and light gooseberry effects but somewhat less estery than I am used to from the style, with drying lemony lactic sourness round a bready core as well as something vaguely sweet-nutty (walnut comes the closest) clearly derived from the sherry. This nutty aspect, along with a dry, sour-grape-like fruitiness and drying woody tannins, eventually gets accompanied by indeed a touch of smoky peat (yet again: nothing like the peatiness of e.g. an Islay whisky barrel aged stout or something like that) and by odd but interesting herbaceous elements (fenugreek, tea leaf). The sherry, however generally dry, provides a gracious vinosity to the finish – a kind of juiciness almost, keeping everything colourful, supple and elegant. The highly coveted Zenne y Frontera series peeps around the corner here – quite a unique 3 Fonteinen product again, not the most accessible one perhaps, but no doubt immediately appealing to the true lambic head. I had a couple of recent ‘peaty’ lambics by new experimenters Angerik and Publitasting, but those made use of actual peated whisky barrels whereas here, the ‘peated’ moniker can be a bit misleading, as I did not have a real ‘peaty’ experience here and no peated whisky was involved in the first place; instead I got a brilliant 3 Fonteinen lambic soaked in dry sherry, with a kaleidoscopic shift in flavours that can entertain me for hours on end.
Weicher, hopfig-säuerlicher Beginn, sehr weich. Spritzig, feine Karbonisierung, milde Zitrusnoten. Süß-säuerlich, spritzig bleibend, intensiv. Langer, fein säuerlicher Abgang, etwas holzig, langer Abgang. Gut! 11/12/11/11/9/11