3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

Bottle.
Pours a dark orange body with a large foamy white head - receding to a small white creamy covering. Very dry aroma has some nice properties but remains mostly woody oak and earthy in most aspects. Flavour is quite smooth and not completely funky. Predominantly dry and woody flavour. Finishes with a slight grapefruit twang but it’s not overly complex. Pleasant and refreshing level of carbonation. I’ve had vintages that I’ve enjoyed more so perhaps I need to be a more diligent with my samplings.
Bottled November 2005, picked up at Premier Gourmet in Buffalo and drunk on November 30, 2007.

Garrafa. Coloração dourada, medianamente turva. Creme branco fraco, típico das Gueuze. Notas ácidas, azedas, salgadas e de vinagre.

In Nov 07 had a bottle which was bottled 2004. Very clean, but not exactly rich. I should try this again in a few years because it felt like fruity notes were trying to poke out but either I’m not advanced enough or the beer isn’t deep enough to get them through. Who bets the former?! As is: a remarkably clean and sour geuze with only the vaguest fruit undertones.

Bottle. Hazy orange pour with a yelllowed off white head. Aroma of funk, wood, and sour vinous fruits. Flavors of tart dark fruits, barnyard and funk, dry malt and yeast. Medium/light body, funky/dry/vinous with a dry finish.

37.5 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange and with a fizzy and fully diminished off-white head. Aroma is dry, woody and with a subtle brett note. Flavour is orange fruity and dry. Nice dry and mild.

I understand this is supposed to be an acquired taste, but it is one I certainly haven’t acquired yet. The aroma was like an earthy cheese. It looked quite nice and had nice champagne-like bubbly texture. The taste was mainly sour, with slight funky yeasty notes as well and just the slightest amount of hops. Considering it was $8 for a 375ml, I don’t think this is one taste I will ever acquire.

Huge offwhite coarse head. Deep hazy yellow body with carbonation. Dry sharpish barnyard and grain aroma with metallic acid notes. Thin dry acidic taste with grainy metallic background. Sharp and intense, but still somehow not unpleasant. Quite nice (0.75l bottle, 1999 vintage, RBNAG’07.)

Rerate, 375 ml "champagne" bottle, from Vinmonopolet. ABV is 6%. Unfiltered, bottled 10/03/2008. Pours very fizzy. Cloudy yellow colour, big white head. Lovely farmhouse aroma, notes of fermenting fruits and spices. The flavour is very sour and tart with notes of lemons and Bramley apples, hints of spices, some hops in the atertaste. Original rating: Sampled bottle, RBNAG 2007 in Grimstad, as 3 Fonteinen Beersel Oude Geuze 1999. Golden colour, large head. Funky aroma / mold, horseblanket. Nice sour flavour with oaky and farmhouse notes.