3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is sour, yeast, apple. Flavour is sour, apple, yeast. Nice beer.

Bottle from 2003. A hazy gueuze with a lovable foamy top. Even though it has aged for a while it doesn’t have that peculiar cellary aroma most gueuzes tend to get. Another observation, because of the age, is that the carbonation is still very heavily present and also the familiar tart and sour flavor. An ejoyable and wonderful beer.

Bottle purchase at Delirium Cafe, Brussels. The classic recipe for a gueuze - something foreign to American brewers. Needless to say, it is also a very acquired taste in my opinion - and I also have very little experience with lambics. Big frothy head, mild carbonation. Intensely sour from start and finish. Coupled with yeast and hints of lemon. A great example of the style.

Bottle. Golden color with a foamy white head. Strong sour, wood, and emon aroma and flavors. Wonderfully tart and dry with an acidic and earthy finish. Cheers to Nuffield who I talked to on the phone while drinking this fine beer.

Poured with aplomb from a wicker basket (and a great height) at Pocchenellekelder, Brussels. Where do you begin? Hazy orange with an initially creamy head of suds. All the saliva-tickling lemon juice sharpness you’d expect, but combined with a depth of sodden, peaty malt whiskey woodiness and blue cheese dankness I’ve never encountered before. Lemony, meaty, tingly and slightly smoke-tinged. Mould and sherbet. Lingers with a distinctly creamy, blue-veined mouldiness. Brie-smeared cellar walls, sherbet lemons and whiskey. Didn’t necessarily understand why, but absolutely loved it. Sorry, Dave.

2004 bottle. Pours a slightly hazy orange with no head but lively carbonation. Aroma of spicy horse blanket, oak, lemon and grapefruit. Taste is citrusy wet barnyard with just a mild amount of sourness and spicy oak aftertaste. Thin spritzy mouthfeel. Very good.

An all around great Geuze. Very herbal and earthy. The first sip is full of spritz and tartness. The finish lasts long and is full of wet straw and intense lemony barnyard aromas and flavors. Delicious, it’s amazing all the many levels of flavor that this beer offers. Proper serving temperature is crucial.

bottle - Pours orange with no head and just a little fine carbonation. The aroma was funky and other than that I didn’t notice much else, but it was a good aroma. The flavor was kind of bitter and sour with lots of funk. Medium bodied with very low carbonation noticeable in the mouthfeel, this beer is a fine example of a gueuze, which is definitely not my favorite style.