3 Fonteinen Framboos (Framboise)

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

Serve in Flute, Stem glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Mega Tasting III, 1999 vintage, 750ml bottle. Words cannot express the huge awesomeness that this day has brought. Derek, you are the f’n man. Poured into RBSG 2010 tulip. A - Pours a muddled brownish color, white head, no lacing, and some spotty whisps on top here and there. S - Raspberry puree sweetness, nice funk, lactic acidic notes, some oak. The raspberry is so pronounced it’s unlike anything I’ve ever had. Not overly sour, just right, and very tart. The cheesey funk is there, but it doesn’t overpower or overtake the raspberry at all. T - Wow. Funky raspberry bomb! Nice sour/tart notes, moreso then the nose, which is excellent. The finish is funky with a tart bite on the end. Just amazing how the raspberry is still there after 12 years. M - Light, very soft carbonation, dry finish. D - Simply impressive. The raspberry is all over this one, which truthfully, I wasn’t expecting after all these years. Destroys all other sour raspberry beers with ease and just excellent. Will i ever have it again? Probably not...how sad.

Courtesy of hoppymeal

Bottle: The aroma is sweet raspberry, funk, faint sour raspberry, and cork. It pours a hazy orange with a minimal off-white ring for a head. The flavor starts with a quick dose of sweet raspberry. The finish has strong sourness, funk, and a touch of cork. Sourness is slightly mouth puckering. Light-medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Consumed at LCBS 2010 with great ratebeerians and members of BA Big thanks to henrik for letting me have the pleasure of prying this from his hands. A: Pours a nice reddish pink with a thin white head. Lite on the retention and a few spots of lace. S: Subtle yet wonderful aromas. Tart berry and oak. Hints of vinegar as well. T: Tart raspberry and hints of mulberry. Mild oak with a nice lactic quality. Sour without being too much, a mild vinegar note. No oxidation at all. M: Nice and crisp, perfect carbonation, with a nice tartness from the middle through the finish. Those who say this one is past its prime are wrong.

What a monster of a beer to rate. Thanks to Greg for helping land this whale! Pours out blood orange-red with white lacing into the glass. Foam dissipates before much head can form, but the thin layer of white retains fairly well. The aroma is raspberries, mild dark fruit, subtle barnyard and funk. This thing is fantastic, gotta say any rumor of this beer being over-the-hill are quite exaggerated at best . . . unless it was drinking like cherub tears 10 years ago! Wonderful amalgam of raspberries in the front palate, some lemony citrusiness, lactose sour soon follows. Back palate is a very complex yet well melded blend of earth and funk. Loved this beer!

LCBS 2010. Pours a nice reddish color with a very thin whitish head. Aroma starts with raspberries, leads to vinegar, wood, lactic notes and then finishes with more raspberries. Flavor is an amazing blend of lactic tartness, raspberry sweetness, funk...just a beautiful beer. I detected no oxidation to speak of.

3oz pour of a 1999’ vintage bottle procured by Greg for the LCBS 10. Somethings you just have to experience for yourself........

UPDATED: MAY 17, 2012 ReRate: Bottle at Sour & Bitter 2012 (New batch). Clear red/pink - light pink head. Fruity, ok sourness, super fresh raspberries, like eating fresh raspberries straight from the bush, tartness, fruity tartness, wooden notes, sweet notes, lovely sourish, light sharpness...... A bit more sourness and I would give it 5.0, but I still love it !!! Old Rating: Bottle (Vintage 1999) at Papsø’s - Thanks to Kim (Jeg skylder dig stadig 200kr.). Cloudy deep red/brown - white head. Nice high raspberries, lots of raspberries, acid, light oxidation, niec sourness, light marmelade, still lots of fresh raspberries, wooden, tartness, nice sweetness, light vinegar. Very nice !!! (8/5/8/4/18)

Bottle 750ml.

[ Vintage 1999 ]. Clear medium red orange color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting - diminishing, off-white with pink notes head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy latic raspberry, raspberry, tart, sour, light to moderate wood, vinegar notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and acidic with a long long duration, tart, rapsberry and raspberry, so dry dry.
Had it side by side with the 3 F Hommage that was just so thin, the aroma and flavor in the Hommage is just raspbeery and cherry stones compared to the framboos, so lovely ... sadly the only bottle i will get off this very very nice beer ;O)
Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. So deap bot in aroma and flavor that it is hard to explain .. Thx a lot for this lovely beer. [20100618]
9-4-9-5-20

Bottle 750ml.

[ Vintage 1999 ]. Unclear medium red amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy raspberry, so much berry in the aroma, latic raspberry, tart, sour, wood, vinegar notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and acidc with a long long duration, tart, dry dry, raspberry and raspberry. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. A very very beer sadly this will be last time to try it ... but very very happy thst i did manage to get it twice ;O)) [20100911]
9-3-9-5-20

Bottle at Papsø, thanks Kim. Hazy orange coloured with a small off -white head. Light acidic aroma of barnyard and raspberries. Acidic flavour of barnyard and raspberries with notes of oak and berries. Tart finish of berries.

UPDATED: JAN 15, 2012 sample from kim´s bottle. ’1999 hazy red-brown, almost no head. sweet aroma of fruits, marcipan, raspberries. vineagra backgrund. flavor is quite complex, nicely sour, bitter fruit peel, the fruits almost makes the lambic more sour, gives a nice fruit peely bitter balance. very refreshing.