3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Golden Blend

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

Serve in Flute, Stem glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Two-year-old bottle, shared with VT. The cork exploded violently upon loosing. Lots of protein; hyper frothy; big bubbles. The smell is also powerfully intense. I had to pull back the first time I put my nose in the glass, before I could appreciate all the floral and fruity aromas radiating through the brettanomyces: berries, pear, peach, macintosh apple, cherry. The taste is sharply acidic, with flavors of wild fruits and plants (familiar to me, in Canada): wild raspberry and gooseberry, sweet clover, and lilac petal. It leaves a pleasant after-taste of grapefruit while the unending acidity cleans the enamel off your teeth. I’m not even half- joking here. This beer is an hyperbole.

pours almost clear golden with a decent white head, some retention. funk, fresh wheat and tropical lemons, wood, some apples, wine and apple wine, granny smith acidity, other fresh greeness - very refreshing. very few acetic notes. tad more fruit acidity than regular oude geuze. bright carbonation, light body - some texture thouh, very dry and astringent finish. very enjoyable.

Bottle. Clear orange liquid with a huge fluffy white head. Small bubbles and a high level of carbonation. Aroma: Funky, horseblanket, barnyard, citrus, slightly musty, apples, sour fruits, complex, funky, really nice! Taste: medium sourness with a balanced amount of funk, tart, sour apples, citrus, barnyard and hay, slightlymusty, earthy. Really nice geuze!

Apple jumps out at uncorking! Head is ginormous. Colour surprisingly amber tinted. Near perfect taste. Lovely

375ml corked bottle and served in my Ratebeer Old School Tulip (and paired with Roth Grand Cru cheese wedge) :

Beautiful golden hue with a mostly lasting fizzy head and okay lace. The aroma has moderate sweaty funk, cheese, oak, acidity, mineral, horsey, flowery and just a touch of herbs. The taste is so well balanced between the pale grains, oak barrels and wild yeasts, not overly sour’d nor overly funky but a great combination of the depth of palate. The mouth feel is lively and crisp with only moderate oak tannins. This is well done indeed, too bad it cost so much.

Smell is sour and a little funky. Very acidic/vinegar type smell. Oak flavor is very subtle. For a sour beer this is pretty drinkable.

Golden, slight haze, white head. Dry, grainy and biscuity malt, nice sourness with light acidity, apricots, apples, hay, citrus tartness, some lemon, dusty earthiness, nice lingering tartness in finish.

0.375l corked bottle from Etré. A little treat on a Thursday afternoon! This is a cloudy almost glowing honey-orange thing with a big massive almost fluffy off-white top. In the aroma I get a bretty woody acidity, lot’s of old rustic yellow sour apples that has been lying in a old dark cellar for ages. Earth and soil with a whiff of apple wine vinegar. Lovely aroma. It’s quite lively on the carbonation this - almost so that it kinda explodes a bit in the mouth. Quite different. Really dry this! Almost no sweetness what so ever. Fruity sour old green apples with brett, earth, wood, apple wine vinegar and some soft hints in the aftertaste that strongly reminds me of gastric acid. This was much dryer than I had imagined, not to mildwrenchingly sour actually and quite refreshing! Good stuff! 11.10.2012

375 ml caged and corked bottle, bottle date of 2011/02/17. Served in a Unibroue tulip, the beer pours a cloudy golden/orange color with a huge 3 inch off-white frothy head. The head sticks around a while, and there’s also a lot of lacing. It smells like funk, wood, lemon peel, green apples, and some apricots. The taste is similar to the aroma, but there’s also some green grapes, vinegar and a bit of leather noticeable too. Also, the flavors are more tart/sour compared to the aroma. This brew just gets better the longer I drink it! Mouthfeel/body is medium, it’s a bit slick with a good amount of soft, zingy carbonation. It’s very enjoyable and easy to drink. Good, but pricey at $21.99 a bottle.

Bottle 37,5 cl, bottled on 17/02/2011 and BBE 02/2021. Pours dark golden in color with a frothy head that gets smaller after awhile, but it’s yet staying on as a small cap for the whole time. Initial aroma was sour lemon, but that turns into some barnyard, funk and old, dry leather later on. Just like being in the countryside on a farm on a warm summerday. Something that is light fruity, perhaps some white grapes that is, is as well there. Dry and quite tart, still there’s that fruityness in the background as well. Light wooden oakiness, earthy funkiness and lemon in taste. Seems like this one is extremely well balanced. Tasty and delicious, there’s the mild fruityness, light sweetness and the sour notes of gueuze working well together and making this one quite remarkable. A real treat.