3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

Thanks to TheCheeseMan for this one! Pours a cloudy gold color with lots of bubbles and a thick foamy white head. Aroma is funky, barnyard, and tart. Taste is funky, some green apple, and dry. Tastes great but the palate finishes a bit flat and bitter. Awesome, but I prefer the Cantillon Gueuze over this.

Bottle (375 ml) from Biertempel, Brussels, Belgium. Deep hazy golden with a short-lived white head. Cidery aroma with green apples and grapefruit, and some very faint oak and leather notes. Very dry with firm acidity, albeit more restrained than in Cantillon brews, and a mild grapefruit-like bitterness.

Bottle, split with after4ever. Pours clear warm amber with a lacy white head. Seriously funky nose. But the funk doesn’t carry over into the taste so much as I expected. I get some cherries but not a lot of the barnyard - which is completely OK with me. Light body, active carbonation. Lightly sour taste with a tart finish.

Thanks to Geuzelover for this aged sample, bottle reads- 1/22/2004 Cloudy orange color with very little head (maybe to due age of this sample). Smells tart with some spice and horseblanket. Leathery spicy horseblanket, sour lemon, lactic acid taste/feel. One of the more complex geuzes I’ve sampled, but not sure how much is due to age as I’ve yet to try a fresh sample.

2006 bottle sampled at a hotel in Beersel since I went there on a Tuesday because of poor planning I didn’t get to go to 3 Fontenien. Aromas were sour, funky, woody, musty, and all around rustic. Beer poured a cloudy golden color with a white head that dissipates rather quickly. Flavor is sour, with must, lemon, and grapefruit, and pretty dry. Seems a little less edgy and lemony than Cantillon’s Gueze. Mothfeel is lightly carbonated . Very good

Bottle courtesy of geuzelover.
Pours golden with no head. Smell is musty, funky, and fairly standard, I thought. Generally unappealing to me. Taste is tart but less so than the Cantillon Classic Geuze. Somewhat musty, dirty, but with a sharp oaky sourness.

Pours hazy golden-orange with off white head. Classic gueze aroma of citrus, funky yeast, vanilla, sour notes. Nice sourness compliments the prickly carbonation. Notes of citrus, apple, white wine, funk, and dried fruit in the flavor. A solid take on a proven style, but it doesn’t really jump out at me as anything special. I need to sample some more of this style to really put this into perspective.

2005. Gorgeous amber, sunrise color, with a nice off white head. Aroma is a nice citrus sourness, oak, vanilla, vinegar. Taste is a nice sourness, oak, horse-blanket, citrus. I need to buy more.