3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

C&C 750 mL bottle courtesy of Bob! Thanks! Pours a slightly hazy lemon yellow color with a thin head. Decent head retention and lacing. Big citrus and peppery notes. Huge amount of pepper. Light slightly funky horseblanket note as well. Earthy notes as well. Taste is citrus, particularly grapefruit, pepper, funk. This is very dry, but also very smooth. Full bodied. Strongly carbonated. Very good.

2004 bottle, Pours blond with a big fat head, with big fat bubbles. The aroma is outstanding, lemony, peppery, funky with good floral and bubblegum notes that I have never seen in a Gueuze! I also love that ever-present horse blanket aroma lingering in the background. The flavor is earthy with some lemon rind, some nice but mild sourness, dry white oaky notes, plenty funky but not over the top, insanely drinkable.

April(?) 2008: Cloudy golden orange color + acidic aroma + tart and funky flavor = 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze. This beer is really good, but outside my area of expertise and appreciation!

1 pt. 9.4 fl. oz. bottle (Alc. 6% Vol.) shared by Tmoney99. Thanks Tom! Rating #636 for this beer.

Tap @ Stone Sour Fest 2009. hazy light orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, horse blanket, barnyard, wood, sour, skunk, apple tart. Flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic and bitter with a average to long duration and a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is moderate astringent.

2004 bottle sampled June 2009 to celebrate signing on our new home.

Sometimes when I’m about two bolts into a lead climb I decide that I’ve bitten off more than I can chew and I wonder why in the hell I go climbing in the first place and why anyone would do this one purpose and I wonder whether I’m man enough to do it, let alone enjoy it....and then I just let it flow and as I’m lowering off the anchors, I’ve got this happy glow. The aroma of this one, tart and aggressive, funky and balsamic, makes me feel that way. Yet after the second sip I’m loving it and I’ve got that lowering off glow now as the deep, dry brett lays across my tongue and I look longingly at the empty glass.

Shared this one and both of us commented on how wonderfully crisp and dry it was. I also liked the tartness. The color was a little too dark and made me wonder if it was still fresh - but it was.

Off brown gold pour with foamy head and lace. Tart with brown sugar aroma that hints of fruit. Big tart dry flavor with a hint of fruitiness and funk. Medium bodied with nice carbonation. A very nice beer.

Very funk oriented mild gueuze though not without tasty grape and lemon notes. Packed with hay and barnyard notes and finishes leaving a yummy brett blancet on your tongue.