3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

12.7oz bottle, bottled on 22 January 2004. Poured a deeper and cloudy golden color with a fizzy off white head. Aromas of green apples with a light oakiness and lemon to it. Tastes follow the same. Nice pucker at the finish (but not over powering). 8 4 8 4 16 Had a 1999 vintage in Jan ’07 and increased the #s.

Bottle, shared with blankboy and hogtown harry. Courtesy of harry. Lovely sour aroma - not overwhelming - can an aroma be balanced? Not nose hair singeing, but back of the nostrils, yeast, and some lemon and malt too. Gold pour, decent sized head. Pungent (thanks Harry) taste. tart, dry, yeast - very well put together. Maybe jus a tad thin. More sour than the aroma. Easy to drink. Tons of flavour. A complex yet easy to drink Gueuze.

Rating #950. From Boutip (Secret Santa). 01/28/2003 bottle. The beer pours to a glowing, lightly hazy 22k golden body with a huge foamy white head. Tons of visible carbonation in the body. The aroma is very strong but is also very balanced and delicate. Acidic apples and balsamic vinegar. Also, complex leathers. The last gueuze I had that I remember was much stronger in flavor. It had that face cringing/melting sourness (gueuzyness). This beer, however, is much more subtle. Delicate and not pungent. Still, a nice light tartness, sweet balsamic vinegar, cherries, and leather. Very easy drinking since the palate isn’t "obscenely" overcarbonated/acidic/sour. Girardin kicked my ass, and I liked that. Lou Pepe Gueuze was also "strong". The palate on this is too smooth. It’s great, but light and not in my face like I feel the style. Doesn’t dry out my mouth as much as I think it should. Thanks VERY much for this brew Mr. B.

Rerate: 1/22/2004 vintage at Falling Rock. Pours to an orange hazy body with a thin sheen white head. The aroma is leather, lightly tart, some light funkiness. Mellow and well blended. The flavor is tart, but the oak barrel really brings this one down to earth. Light oaken leathers. Really balanced. The palate is tart but not puckering. Smooth, slick mouthfeel.

First rating
Tried this on a bottle from 2004.
Acid scent, but not violently so, more gentle. A bit cloudy and no visible yeast, I might have disturbed it too much before I poured it. Clear but still gentle sour/acid taste, but still balanced and nice.
8/4/8/4/16=4.0

Second rating
(75 cl bottle at The Rover, Göteborg)
Bottled 22-02-2003.
On April 6, 2008.
Shady orange color, medium big white head. Very sour scent, makes my throat pucker up. Acidic, apple, sour, mineral taste. Smooth yet spritzy mouthfeel. No bitterness.
8/4/8/3/16=3.9

2004 Bottle in a gueuze tasting. This is one of the masterpieces we had. Dominative hay. Typical Barnyard/horseblanket, citrus/apple aroma and taste. More intense then the average gueuze. But not as complex and impressive then the Belle-vue, Girardin, and Cantillon 96 we also had. (yeah, it was a hard day!) Overall restrained funkiness. Dusty feeling that I’ve come to expect from gueuze. The mouth feel is impressive, body is full (well, as full as a gueuze can be) and leads to an astringency that is.. hum.. very sexy.

Cloudy gold with a thin off-white head. Nose has lemon, oak, balsamic vinegar, yeast, cherries. Lots of lemon up front with woody funk, a toastier malt presence than I’m used to in Geuzes, yeast. As expected this is quite acidic. I can’t place something below the funk - meaty or fruity? Interesting.

Large and frothy white head on a gold and orange body. Not as bitter as I feared, this is a well-blended geuze. It felt very fresh an fruity, and I am ready to taste it again any time. It gets smmother as you drink it. The sourness is well worth a try !

Bottle. Slightly hazy golden straw color with big white head. Aroma is acidic and sour with grapefruit and other cirtrus. Taste is very sour, lightly sweet, barnyard, citrus, dry but malty. Oh man, don’t tell me I’m starting to like lambics.