3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

750 ml bottle picked up from Greens Liquor store in Atlanta. This is a bottle from February 02, 2007. I think this is my first lambic - gueuze. Smells a wee bit like some charred wood, with some funky fruit. Yeast aroma is pungent. This is a very nice nuanced pungent beer. Slight bread, and little sour as well. Very nice nuanced aroma. Nice fluffy head that fades away only slightly. Nice haze dark orange color. Funky sour flavor with some yeast. Nice flavor is you ask me. I am just starting to like the sour-type beers. Slight charred wood flavor in there as well. For $20 it is a little expensive, but having it aged 2 years without having to do it myself is ok with me. Overall, pretty damn good beer.

375 ml bottle - February 2006 bottling; cloudy, straw gold; aromas of funky cheese, lemons, barnyard funk and fruit; texture is soft and delightful; mild flavors across the palate that aren’t as harsh as the nose would suggest; tasty, soft, smooth, subtle and yummy

Golden amber pour with nice white head. Great aroma. Tart lemony wood, great funkiness. Smooth and delicious. Better than the vintage from nearly the same time. Smooth and tart.

Bottle.Pours light yellow with a big foamy head.Lovely aroma of funky cellar sour and barnyard.Sour citrus flavor with some residual sweetness .Lot’s of nice funk.Thin body ,lively carbonation.Very nice and enjoyable

hazy yellow color with a big white head that quickly dissipates. aroma is funky citrus. flavor is sour citrus and tart with a little funkiness.

(bottle, dated 12/04/2008) pours a lightly hazy golden-orange colour with a tall frothy white head, great lacing. aroma has heaps of sweaty funk and dry spices, with lots of citrus and mild cheese. flavour is mostly the same, very funky and spicy, with a sour sweet-bready finish. medium body with lively carbonation.

Bottle shared at Where the Wild Beers Are NYC 2009. The aroma is barnyard, a little tart lemon in the background. Very nice! The appearance is an ornage/yellow, white head. The flavor is earthy, leather, lemons, other tart and sour fruits. The finish is a tart lemon, like a sour lemon drop. Beautiful. A classic beer.

Bottled Feb. 01, 2008, good for at least ten years. Pours after the pop of the champagne cork with a mostly clear, gold color, lots of effervescence, and a head which is mostly full, fluffy, foamy, white, fully lasting and leaves some frothy lace at the bottom of the glass. Nose is typical oude with a lot of earthy, tart, funkiness going on; tartness is lemons and lime peel, tannic and wet oak notes, horse blanket, wet earth, mushrooms, even some sharp cheese notes. Flavor is still young with more tartness and sour notes than expected; puckering sour lemon notes dominating with also wet oak (almost cork-like), faint horse blanket, light sour apple, very tannic, bread yeast, and some drying bitterness into the finish. Palate is puckering, fizzy, light to medium, dry finishing, and refreshing. Finishes very dry, still sour with lemons, wet wood, and some earth and faint sharp cheese on the tongue. Still somewhat of a hard style for me to rate with so many differences from most beers I am used to drinking. However, it is a dying style that is refreshing change from the norm. This one was a bit more sour than I normally like but the nose was more than complex and I did find myself drinking it very easily. Still a marvel in brewing.