4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
750 ml. 2007 bottle. Thanks Kai! Pours a somewhat cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma of sour apples, lemon, funk, hay, and spice. Taste is sour apples, lemon peel, funk, hay, spice, grass, and oak. Amazing!
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Søernes Ølbar. Cloudy orange with a frothy white head. Horseyblanet, barnyard, citric, very dry, woody, gooseberries, pink grape fruits, leathery, bretty. Extremely dry, crisp, peppery finish. Average to lively carbonation. Tart, lovely.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle share thanks to Jared, light amber orange pour with a nice white head. Aroma of lemon and some yeast funk. Taste is big lemon and funk, bubbly mouth feel.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
2002 Vintage. 375mL bottle at Akkurat, pours a cloudy golden orange with a medium white head. Aroma of classic 3F barnyard funk, some horse blanket and more barnyard notes. Flavour brings out a very dry palate, with classic notes of 3F barnyard funk, lots of horse blanket, wild yeast and lightly tart notes. Extremely funky, even more so than the regular 3F Oude Geuze. Extremely complex and full of flavour. What a fantastic gueuze.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
375mL brought back from Belgium. 15-4-2003 bottle date.
A: Cloudy orange with a thin fizz of white head. Leaves some gunk and yeast on the glass.
N: Green apple, lemon zest, barnyard hay smells, and loads of oak. Lots of funk - reminds me of being in an attic space. There’s some lavender and coriander here. Incredibly nice.
T: A very balanced sournesss. Has a touch of bitterness and there’s plenty of cheesy funkiness and yeast. The age has done some wonderful things to this.
M: Well carbonated with a touch of sharpenss. Lighter body - very quaffable.
O: One of the best beers I’ve ever had. Can’t wait to see what another 5 years does to this. Get it.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
2003, 37,5 cl bottle split by bill , thnx dude !
pours amber, fuzzy. white foam .
smell is very intence 3f oude geuze, taste is also a more intence version of the ’basebeer’ . very good indeed !
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle a hazy orange yellow colored beer with a white head aroma apple lemon sourness and white fruits flavor lemon apple white fruits and a fresh sourness finish
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
2007. Traditional gueuze funk, strong barnyard hay and grass. Dry, prickly carbonation. Crisp and easy to drink, but not memorable in any way.
My friends all gushed over how good this was, which further reinforces that I'm just not that into 3F's gueuze -- regular or vintage. Or maybe I'm just spoiled by Blauw.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
2005 Vintage Red Label. Pours a ripe copper color with a finger of fizzy foam. On the nose its musty dank lemon, grapefruit, basement funk, old wood, trace of orchard pollen. The palate is lighter than I expected with a wet wooden minerality that is subtle slightly watery but opens up into a nice herbal tea, tart lemon and lots of barnyard funk lingering in the background. Traces of leather linger in the finish.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Tasted @ RBBWG 2013 - thanks travlr! 2003 Vintage.
Pours cloudy bright orange with a nice off white head. My nose is twisted with funk, sour and tartness. The taste is - Wow! So well integrated -tart, sour and funky..really great stuff. Body is light with active carbonation. A real treat - I wish this bee was readily available!
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