3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Pours pale orange with a quickly disappearing head. Aroma is of leather, light wood, green apple, and some basement. Very interesting. Lively carbonation. The flavor is initially very tart with notes of sour apple and lemon mixed with a clean funk (if there is such a thing). The finish is long and a little bready with some soft oakiness. This is very much like a good complex chmpagne. Excellent.

Very pale, hazy amber with white head. Aroma of leather, sour citrus, mild funk, and faint wood. Flavor sour apple, lemon citrus, mild grapefruit, wood, lightest of vanilla, and funk. Aroma is fairly bold. Flavor has great initial impact with a ultra-clean finish and only mild to moderate citrus/acidic finish, which makes this beer even easier to drink. Impressed with the overall picture.

Very complex flavor profile, fruity sourness followed by a little bit of funk and finishes off dry with sour lemon, cherry and a bit of mustiness. I really like the dustiness of this beer.

26/05/2011 Brasserie 4:20 (2006 vintage bottle). Dorata intensa, appena torbida e un po’ opalescente, con lieve schiuma bianca poco persistente. Al naso risulta molto intensa, selvatica, con forti note agrumate, erbacee, pinose. In bocca è acida senza compromessi, resinosa, con note balsamiche, poco astringente, secca. Corpo medio, carbonazione soft. Senza dubbio una delle migliori gueuze mai bevute.

Bottle from Beer Engine. Gold pour with a fizzy white head. Nice sour apple aroma. Medium palate, plenty of carbonation. Taste is fantastic - rich sour apple, yet very drinkable. Definitely champagne-like. Excellent.

The first couple of flutes yielded a medium golden to orange clear body, while the final glass was quite hazy. A large, fizzy, white head that soon reduces to a long-lived very thin layer. The aroma is apple cider and champagne: fermented apples, oak and leather. The taste is very acidic with tart flavours of apple and lemon, along with this wild oak/leather/barnyard stuff. Very dry texture. I couldn’t finish the bootle because of the violent acidity, but due to the lively carbonation it was still refreshing (in it’s fizzy champage w/lemon way) and drinkable the next day. A fun beer, but I don’t quite get this beer style…
[37.5 cl bottle, enjoyed 2 years after bottling, from Vinmonopolet Storo, Oslo]

Little head, cloudy golden. Heavy Nose with sour apple, vinegar, sulphur.Medium body with high carb, some length. Very fresh (just released) and unevolved with apple and grape notes. Promising but hard to taste due to the high carb,

Bottle. Pours orange with no head, not even after a vigorous pour. I’ll be honest here, I don’t much about the style, so my comments will be fairly vague, so I apologize. Smells sour, as a lambic should with lots of fruit in the aroma. Not a sour as I was expecting. The sourness is pleasant, but there’s a slight astringency in the finish and I’m honestly not sure if it’s supposed to be there or not. It’s subtle enough that I feel like it’s part of the style, but I don’t really care for it. I’m trying to judge the style and not let my personal preference interfere, but I’d have to say this one is different than other lambics I’ve had, so maybe it’s just that I haven’t tried enough lambics. Perhaps I’ll get another bottle and see how it does after a couple years of aging.

UPDATED: MAR 4, 2012 Slightly hazy yellow with champagne-like bubbles and a thick, lacy, white head. Smells of sweet tarts and vinegar. Rates sour and tangy, like vinegar, citrus, and a rubber-like flavor (in a good way). Dry and bubbly, but very smooth.

had the Zomer right before this one which was a mistake as the zomer blew this out of the water. still a great gueze though!