3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

375ml bottle. Hazy amber/orange color with a smallish head. Aroma of lemon and orange citrus and funky horse-blanket. Tangy/sour texture that finishes with a taste of fruity/apple sweetness.

Bottle marked November 30, 2005. Pours with a large, rocky, off-white head covering a cloudy orange body. Aroma of pineapple, melon, orange, horseblanket and a buttery note. Taste is really, really, sour, with lots of citrus. Sourness gets a bit more tolerable after a couple of sips, and there is even a nice, light sweetness towards the end of the taste at the end of the glass. Duration is a bit short. Lightly fizzy and very very dry.

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A live experience: I’m setting here at my desk with a cooled down edition of 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze. Slowly I pour the geuze into my glass... There is aboslutely no head and the colour is hazy orange. My first impression of the aroma is a bit of surprise. I expected sourness in the style of Cantillon, but it is actually quite balanced with notes of apple, melon, pear and metal - very nice. Accompanied by Michael Nyman’s soundtrack to A Zed and Two Noughts, I take my first sip... Immediately I’m hit by an aggressive acidness as if biting into a unripe apple. The sensation is that of very dry champagne or grape fruit. Perhaps the flavours die away a bit too quick in the ending, but the initial feeling is really great and not too extreme. A further plus is the lack of sour eruptions one can sometimes experience drinking geuze. I am actually blown away by this one - it’s so perfectly balanced, dry and fruity that I am in beer heaven. For the first time I truly understand the bliss of a lambic - geuze.

2006 Bottle from Beerlando. Pours gold-brown with a whirlpool of carbonation hurrying up to a huge head that leaves thick bubbly lacing. The aroma is a deep barnyard sourness with peppery notes underneath, and behind that there are apples, peaches, and with a deep swirl of the glass some caramel. The flavor is a strong musky sourness, complex and hard to pin down, balanced by a fruit-tartness that folds in and out. Smooth if slightly puckering with strong carbonation.

Bottle. Hazy light yellow with white head. Quite sweet after taste after the sour beginning. Quite simple otherwize.

RateBeer Rating, Style and Glass: 99, Lambic - Gueuze, flute, tumbler ABV, Volume & Calories: 6% in 12.7 fl oz. estimated at 150 C Purchased at: OakTree in South Plainsfield, NJ for $7.99 Aroma: strong, sour, sharp, and bitter. 8 out of 10. Visuals: foggy, bronze, cloudy, golden, wispy white head, present. 4 out of 5. Taste: mostly sour, strong, well crafted. 8 out of 10. Palate: puckering, silt, silky, longer finish. 4 out of 5. Overall: Very mindful of other lambics, and it’s done well, but it is definitely not a preferred style for me. I would not seek it out again, but it was very well crafted, and highly respectable. 17 out of 20.

Pours out cloudy light orange. Fruity and sweet, but tart. Not to tart. Nice funky, woody and sour flavors. Tasty with a meal or before.Great gueze!