3 Fonteinen Armand’4 Oude Geuze Herfst

Brewed by 3 Fonteinen
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Beersel, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Sampled at STLWill’s 30th b-day tasting. Love this seasons series. Pours bronze / brown with a large white head. The aroma has nuttiness, nectar fruits, dark fruits, musty, mild sourness and plenty of wild bugginess. Medium / light crisp body with sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with rustic woodiness, big lactic/citric tartness that’s not on the aroma, mild fruitiness and some dark malt taste hiding behind the sourness. The finish has the funky bugginess come to the forefront in a massive way. There is a lingering super sharpness that stays with the finish that wasn’t on the original taste. Great lambic.

Bottle @ Sour & Bitter 2012. Pours a hazy dark orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity funky yeasty tart aroma with hints of citrus. Fruity sour tart woody flavor. Has a fruity sour funky woody finish.

Bottle at Sour & Bitter 2012. Cloudy amber - white head. Nice sourness, wooden notes, light cheese, light oxidation, sulfor notes, sharpness, sharp sour finish, ok barnyard.

Bottle at Sour & Bitter. Pours hazy golden with a bubbly white head. The aroma is citrus, grape fruit, leather and oak. The flavour is very tart and rough with notes of leather, oak and acid. Tart sourish fruity finish.

Pours hazy amber with a fluffy beige head. Aroma is huge brett, bacteria, grapefruit, barnyard, citrus, sour berries, mouldy oak and pretty earthy. Taste is brett, grapefruit, dry wood, sour berries, leather, barnyardy notes, citrus fruits, pretty tart and overall pretty "clean".

Sour & Bitter Festival CPH 2012. Armand’4 side by side. Cloudy orange with a lasting off-white head. Funky and wooden aroma with a distinct earthy autumn note. Dry and rather mild tart flavour with wooden and mild funky character

Bottle shared at my 30:th birthday tasting on May 5 (30 år av Surt). Bottle bought @ Etre Gourmet. Pours deep reddish and yellowish brown with a huge creamy and frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is sour with ripe grapes, grapefruit juice, orange zest, lemon zest, hay, barnyard, horse blanket, pineapple, leather, ripe apples, wood and hints of sweat. Taste is very sour with leather, grapefruit juice, lemon zest, ornge zest, hay, horse blanket and wood. Mouthfeel is tart, dry and medium to full bodied. Finish is our and tart with wood, grapefruit juice, lemon zest and horse blanket.

This is an excellent gueuze in its own right, but just a hair behind the Zomer. It looks about the same, opaque orange with a full white head. Not quite as our as the Zomer, but still sour enough that it does not disapoint. Some citrus. Dry yeast finish.

Bottle @ S&B. Hazy golden pour with huge off white head. Aroma is nice brett forward, grapefruit, zesty citrus, nice barnyard, some nice farmhouse rustic malt presence, nice musty oak. Taste has a lot of the same qualities, nice sweetness to balance out the sourness - very balanced. Not as fruity tasting as the aroma would suggest. Clean, balanced and delicate - very good.

Bottle. @ sour bitter, hazy yellow, small head, Aroma: very woody, musty, stable, funk, ammonia, dandelion, oak, very subtle, mellow, Taste: nice balance between sweetness & acid, woody, sweet vinegar, tart, brett, funk very dry, lemon, bile, grape

Bottle at yespr. Hazy orange coloured with a huge off-white ehad. Fruity and light acidic aroma of barnyard and oak. Fruity and light acidic flavour of oak and barnyard. Tart finish.