3 Fonteinen Doesjel

Trade with Yespr. It’s a beautiful, hazy orange-golden beer with a small head. The aroma has sourness and notes of fruit, citrus and barnyard. The flavour is sour, sour with notes of citrus peel, cumquat and horse blanket. I admit that it’s not my style, but having said that, it could be much worse. So out of respect for this beer, that I clearly feel is well crafted, I give it a higher score, than I originally wanted to.

Bottle: Poured hazy amber/orange color lambic with a medium foamy head with some retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of funk and barnyard note are right on but I would still have appreciated some more granny smith notes. Taste is surprisingly quite watery with a thin body but there are sufficient funky and barnyard notes to keep things interesting. I am a big fan of this brewery but I must admit that I was slightly disappointed with the results of this one.

37.5 cl Bottle in Oud Arsenaal Antwerp. A very nice lambic with a good sour taste. Almost no head

33cl bottle: poured orange with no head at all and zero carbonation. Funk aroma with dirt, wood, and leftover ashtray cigarettes. A little pepper. Taste is flat, watery, a bit of funk and some sourness. Not 3F’s best offering.

Clear straw gold with no head and very sluggish carbonation. Lemony citric aroma. Big funk smell with apple, orange, plastic, grass, wet dog, and a nice earthiness. Pungent acidic with amazing lemon, apple, oak, and orange notes. Long, dry, tart, funk finish. Damn near still in the mouth, almost chewy. Super complex yet refreshing and drinkable. I’m sold!!

Bottle. Pours clear dark yellow with a spare, fizzy, white head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, hay, straw, meal), average hops (flowers, grass), heavy yeast (barnyard, earth) with notes of wood, pepper, and coriander. Medium bodied, thin texture, flat carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness. Toasted sesame notes.

Dark golden color, almost amber, no head. Nose is sour citrus and hay, some funky urea in the back. A little straightforward. Mouth is pretty flat and disappointing, almost watery. Acidic flavor and a little dusty, but very simple. Short lived palate, citrus outlasting the slightly creamy lactic notes and texture. Not very impressive in its lack of both complexity and aggression, but it’s still a lambic.

Just another part of a string of great beers. Pours orange with very little head. The aroma is very sour, funky yeast, citric, lactic, smooth and malty with a touch of sweetness balancing the sour and a is a touch lemony. Medium smooth lush body with no carbonation. The flavor starts with the balance of maltiness, funky wild yeast and sourness. All are apparent, but none overpowers. There is also some tangy citrus. The finish is very tart and refreshing. Another big winner from 3 Fonteinen.