3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

Bottles sampled with Beerded-one. Pours hazy orange\golden with a gigantic off-white head. Aroma of citrus, fermented fruit, sourness, oak, and yeast. The flavor is carbonated, yeast, fermented fruit, sour, citrus, and oak. Good body, decent brew for a style i don’t care for.

Hazy peach-golden with a large white head. To me the aroma is the most evocative feature of this celebrated beer, its musty, dusty, yeasty, cobwebby scent redolent of brasseries artisanales hidden in grimy backwaters of la Belge profonde where the uneven brick floors have soaked up decades of spilt fruits and lambics. Taste combines tartness with grapefruit bitterness to make a memorable drinking experience.

Bottle courtesy of Bob on 08/01/2009. Bottled on 02 February 2007. Slightly hazy orange body with a small fizzy off-white head. Fairly tart aroma with some fruity hints. Good tart flavor, light fruit. Medium light body with moderate carbonation. 8/3/8/4/17 - 4.0 07/17/2006: Sampled at RBSG06. 1999 Bottle. Hazy orange body with a small off-white head. Sour aroma. Nice sour flavor. 8/3/9/3/16 - 3.9

Bottle. Nice hazy dark gold body with average carbonation and a thin but lasting white foamy head. Typical Gueuze sour aroma that hides the alcohol very well. Very sharp sour taste with oaky and herbal hints. Ends with a long and robust sour, dry finish. Excellent example of the Gueuze style.

Bottle. Rating #3000. Hoo ra. Pops with a light fizz, very light carbonation, near unblended... The color is golden orange. The nose is beautiful; a multifacetted tart/sweet funky dream. Lots of fruit and sweet malts; clashing tart, sour, funk, whoa. The flavor is...damn, near perfect. A light sweet malt is up at bat first followed by the growing tartness that peaks with a light floral and tickling mouthfeel. Finishes balanced and woody. Awesome geuze.

2004 bottle. My first from this brewery, and much thanks to Tom (oldgrowth) I was able to try this fantastic brew. Pours out a cloudy orange color, not much carbonation. Sweet citrus in the nose, and a nice upfront sourness on the first taste. As that fades it leaves way to oakey flavors, wood, and the ever present sourness. Awesome. Probably the best geuze ive had to date, glad I have another bottle of this, to last me for a while.

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden colour with a big white head. Aroma of barnyard with some citrus hints. Sweet malty flavor with nice sourness and hints of citrus. Sweet malty finish.

Re-Rate. Bottle dated Apr. 2, 2001. Different label than the picture; it seems like a vintage, but the vintage rating is only for 2002 and after. Hazy grapefruit color in the glass, large fizzy head dissipates quickly. Lemony and skunky smell, yeasty things going on. Strong carbonation on a light body; acidity is stiff but slow burning, takes two seconds to emerge in lemony goodness. This is awesome, but the palate seems a bit weak; I dropped it one point, but I also raised the smell one point from the original rating.

Original Rating. 37.5 cl bottle into tumbler, Bier Circus. After having my Drie Fonteinen Framboos order ripped away from me (the lady said they didn’t have any more, but I have my doubts), this was the fall back, and it was a good choice. Hazy brown gold in the glass with a peach frothy head. The smell doesn’t give much, pretty much just some bitter brett and not much fruit character at all. The taste is a sour bomb at first, it takes over the whole mouth in a rush; however strong the sourness is, it can’t keep back an insistent brett, which forces its dry way up through the middle; only to be replaced by a resurgent sourness right before the swallow. The finish blends the two nicely, tasting of a very dry blending of muscat and proseco (it retains a tiny bit of the sweetness of the former); in the middle of the finish, some hops push through with a very un-citrus bitter and become the dominant feature, although there’s still sourness lingering strongly on top of it (it’s an amazing flavor, each layer well-defined and coexisting while being almost exactly complimentary); after a long ass time (30 seconds or so), the finish mellows and tastes distinctly of apples. Decidedly dope.