3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

The aroma is rather sour with notes of wood and metal. The color is a slightly hazy orange and it has a beutiful lasting white head. The flavor is a goor sour one with strong notes of lemon, and milder notes of wood and grapegfruit. A really good geuze.

Bottled. Hazy golden colour. Acidic lemony aroma. Clean maltiness. Firm, drinkable and refreshing with balanced acidity. Perhaps less complex than Girardin and Cantillon, but still a great beer.

(Bottle 75 cl) This version simply called "3 Fonteinen Geuze" at 5% ABV - bottled 011297. Hazy, dark golden/amber with a fine, white head. Very classical, traditional gueuze - dry and very vinegary nose. Earthy, notes of over-ripe apples. Sour indeed, but far from the most extreme example. 140499

Cantillon is the beer lover’s gueuze; Girardin is the gueuze lover’s gueuze; Hanssens in the thinking man’s gueuze; Cuvee Rene is a really screwed-up gueuze; but Drie Fonteinen is the session gueuze. Yes, it’s expensive in the US and quite strong, but the combination of hardcore, funky, sour gueuze with smooth maltiness and hint of sweetness in the finish makes this the most emminently quaffable of the ’oude’ gueuzes.

37.5 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange and with a fizzy and fully diminished off-white head. Aroma is dry, woody and with a subtle brett note. Flavour is orange fruity and dry. Nice dry and mild.