3 Fonteinen Hommage

Formerly brewed at 3 Fonteinen
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Beersel, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Stem glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Reddish coloured and unclear. Has a white head, mostly diminishing. Heavy acidic aroma and flavor. Raspberries, fermented raspberries. Astringent too.

Thanks to travlr for sharing the bottle! This would have been an extremely enjoyable beer to drink, except for the fact that fuckin bee flew into my ear while I was sipping my glass and made me spill a bunch of it! Serious funk on the nose. You can smell the sourness of the cherries. One finger head that leaves beautiful lacing. Tastes of straw, barnyard, and especially ripe red fruits. Taste lasts for days. Med-heavy carb, but with nice fine champagne-like bubbles. One hell of a beer!

Bottle. Frothy white fair mostly lasting head. Red amber colour. Powerfull raspberry aroma. Moderate bitter powerfull raspberry flavor. long powerfull raspberry finish. Creamy palate. Wonderfull.

Bottle. Unclear dark amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, cherries, raspberries, tart and little almond. Flavour is malt, cherries, wood, raspberries, tart, barnyard, little sweet, light acid and a light acetone.

Bottle from Mikkeller Bar @ HenrikSoegaard tasting. Hazy orange with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, raspberry and wood. Flavor is medium sweet and rather acidic. Dry and rather acidic finish. 280912

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich raspberries, cherries, brett, vinegar, wood, stable and malt. Superb beer. It feels like im in love with a beer. The aroma beats the scent of a woman.

Bottle @ DHVL. The pour’s deep hazy blood red with a medium reddish-white head that takes its time to settle. The nose is huge, bright raspberry jam. Soft and sweet, inviting. Notes of sugary bubblegum and fruit by the foot. Some woody acidity. I could’ve sat at my table smelling this beer all day, though I’d probably have looked like a bit of a pervert! The taste is hugely satisfying meaty raspberry and cherry fruits, light acidic wood. Some hints of green apple skin and twigs. The body’s very light and soft. This beer’s wonderfully drinkable. Overall, a phenomenal beer and excellent homage to Gaston Debelder. Worth every penny.

UPDATED: SEP 6, 2012 Brought this to our mini Sunday whale tasting. Sampled side by side with the newest vintage of Framboos. Pours a murky purple, brownish red with little head formation on the pours. It’s rather "dirty" looking in comparison to Framboos. Nose is surprisingly full of raspberry still, some very light vinegar, and slightly phenolic. Raspberries are prominent in the flavor as well, with a little bit of plastic peaking through as well. There is less funk than usual 3F of this vintage, but I am actually ok with it considering how much fruit is still showing. Moderate mouthfeel, heavy acidity, light carbonation, and a long finish. I think a lot of the slack this beer gets is unwarranted. It holds up very well to Framboos and despite having some plastic character to it, it doesn’t detract much from the beer. It’s an incredibly good lambic and one I look forward to having again.

UPDATED: AUG 24, 2012 11/VIII/2012 - 75cl bottle @ RBBSG - BB: n/a - 2007 vintage (2012-879) Thanks to Travlr for sharing the bottle!

Partly cloudy rustbrown beer, no head. Aroma: very fruity, raspberries, bit cheesy, little metallic. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, raspberries, very sour, quite cheesy as well. Aftertaste: burning sourness, bit cheesy, little dirty, raspberry jam, bit metallic. Not bad, but overhyped if you ask me... Maybe the age is catching up on this. Still worth drinking though.

thx. to Gene for another awesome whale // 2007 Vintage (only one) // 75 cl. bottle sampled @ RBBSG 2012 // murky dark brown / berry red with little in the way of a white head // nose is loaded with tart raspberries, hint of kriek’s, blended with delicious horse blanket, tad raspberry juice, small touch acid, damn rich for a fruit lambic this age // taste is insane amount of raspberries, like they just pounded them and tried to fit as many as possible into this bottle, even more than the fruit, this tastes heavily of raspberry pits, lots, some berries, tad cherries, freaking jam, real fruits overall, finishing with some sourness blended into the whole, funk, light barnyard, tad lemon, light acid // body is like raspberry pits and creamed raspberries // damn and people keep telling me that this used to better younger and that this is nothing compared to Framboos // man