3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

750 ml. shared with cbkschubert. Had a common yeasty and friut aroma. Cloudy yellow body with big white head. A tart fruity flavor with some sour. Body had a good amount of carbination with active bubbles in the the glass. Thanks to secret santa for sending me this one.

750ml bottle. Bottled on 2/28/04. Aroma: Lots of tart citrus, some green apples and grapes, brett, dusty/musty, leather, and some cheesy funk. Appearance: Light gold in color and just slightly hazed. Lots of champagne like bubbles. Off-white head was full and rocky, but didn’t last long. Some lacing. Flavor: Strong vinegar, lemon and orange, apples, rubber, leather, wood, dusty basement, horseblanket, sweat, and a slight cheesiness. Brett all over the place. Finishes fairly dry, but the flavors linger for awhile. Palate: Medium-light bodied. Medium-high carbonation. Overall: I’ve been holding this one for several months, and I’m glad I chose today to crack it open. Really nice.

Thanks to hopdog for opening this ’99 vintage bottle... Appears a hazy, light gold with a small white head that fades into a mild collar. Tiny speckles of lacing are left around the glass. Smell is of tart apple, grapes, rubber, melon, obvious brett. Taste is of the mentioned aromas with notes of vinegar that has been strained through a dusty horseblanket. Mouthfeel is zingy with a light body. Notes of tart apple, star fruit, & persimmons are lively along the palate. Not bad.

2004 vintage. Thanks to tjthresh for this bottle. Nose is pure heaven with a soured fruit-barnyard aroma that I now find irresistible. So much funky weirdness that I can’t always explain this flavor. It is wonderful

Thanks to hopdog for opening this bottle from 1999. Pours a hazy golden orange with a small off white bubbly head that left slight lacing. Aroma of mango, fruity, a tart funkiness, leathery, very well balanced and just an explosion of lambic awesomeness. Flavor was also tart funkiness, apples, melons, dry, woody. So far one of the best Lambics I have had to date. Thanks Steve.

From a 375mL Bottle, January 22, 2004. Pours a murky, orangish gold color with a thin layer of whitish head. Woody aromas of tart peach pits, mango skins, and green crabapple flesh that creates a tart, fruity bouquet. A nice leathery, cidery funk adds some welcome complexity. Light bodied, champagne-like effervescent mouthfeel. So simply in composition, yet so complex in flavor. Sour, acidic flavors of crababble skins skitter across the tongue initially, followed by some pithy lime rind and more leather. Final smack of a fine stilton cheese melted over baked pears.

750 ml bottle from Sam’s in Chicago, bottled February 28, 2004. By far the most attractive Gueuze I’ve encountered - hazy golden amber colour with a full lasting creamy, fizzy, and pillowy off-white head. Lemon, tart grapefruit, fruity, and lightly floral aroma to go with musty, earthy, yeasty, and cheesy funk with some barnyard notes. Lemon and grapefruit tartness lead the flavours, with a pithy grapefruit bitterness to balance the tartness and an underlying yeasty and soft cheese flavour bringing in additional complexity. Lingering tartness and yeasty and pithy bitterness to finish. Light bodied, bone dry, amazingly refreshing. I could drink this all day. A little unsure at first, this one blossomed into perhaps the best lambic I’ve had. Just delicious. Great choice for the last beer of 2006 and first of 2007.

corked and caged 750 mL bottle, what a sour way to inaugurate 2007! bubblegum yeast billow out of the bottle before i even poured it, and smelling the bottle brings along woody and acidic (lightly vinegary and ’light’ acids) aromas. highly carbonated, evidenced by the sharp foop of the cork as well as a head perpetually fed from several streams of bubbles that look like natural springs inside the glass. bright funky white fruits, with musty sour fermented flavors. the astringency provides balance to a stronger malt presence than i expected. despite the malt in the body, it’s a nice dry finish that leaves plenty of sour behind. an expensive treat, worth it once in a while!