3 Fonteinen Schaarbeekse Kriek

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

Blood red pour, pinkish tints, with a minimal white head. Aroma holds incredibly sweet black cherry predominantly, along with upside-down pineapple cake, floral notes, and Chambord; awesome aroma for a fruit beer, so complex. Flavor has a lot more funk, brilliantly sharp as compared to the aroma. Cherry and liqueur aspects are still incredible and tasty, and balances the rudeness beautifully. Palate is certainly funky, but oh so welcome. This is one of my favorite lambics ever.

Robust blood-garnet pour with a frothy pink head that is slow to dissolve. Aroma is sweet cherry, black cherry, floral funk, orchid, and fruity perfume. Flavor is massively cherry oriented with gratuitous funk, acidic sour berry, and very slight dry oaken tannins. Palate is acidic, slick, lightly effervescent, and smackingly dry but not over attenuated. Can I get a goddamn...

Botle, 75 cl, alone :-) Dark red colour of cherries, starting with a little pink head disappearing fast, but although still a very decent presentation. The aroma is first light sour, but with cherries later on, making this beer have a good smell. The taste is "WOOW!" or "fantastic". If you really want to drink a real ’Kriek’, than you have to drink this one. You taste really good the ’Schaerbeekse Krieken’, but not sweet at all, and although there is lambic in it, also not sour at all. Very enjoyable beer to drink. It may cost 9 EUR per bottle, but it is certainly worth it, the champagne between the ’(Oude) Krieken-beers’!

Bottled at 3rd Brugs BF, as Oude Kriek. Light hazy deep red/burgundy colour, pink head. Aroma of cherry pits, funk, sourness, some wood. Flavour is sour, very sour with some cherries. Nothing more. Light to medium bodied. Not my style of beer.

Hazy red pour, thin quickly fading head. Bizarre aroma. Cherries, yes, but also hints of rubbing alcohol. wood, cinnamon, and lemon. It calms down a little with time, but still strange. A decently potent acidity first hits the tongue, followed by a drawn out cherry finish. Also a bit of wood, and perhaps smoke in the finish. A nice, subtle touch at the end. Ultimately good, but not entirely my style.

strong aroma of cherries, flavor is crisp and light, along with a a whispy palate. No sugarry sweetness- tastes natural. Kind og like a cherry vitamin water, but better. Bottle from Ryan Blanksi’s Sourfest- Hollywood, Florida.

Red pour. Pink head. Wow this one smells really nice. Cherries leap out of the glass followed by some lemon zest, vinegar, wood, but mostly dominated by tart cherries. Flavor is wonderfully tart and remarkable fruity. Really a wonderful beer. Damn good.

[Bottle] shared by timbeer for my birthday. Thanks! Once the cork comes out, the bubbles build and slowly creep toward the mouth of the bottle. Pours a lightly hazy deep ruby with a small, effervescent head that is just the faintest shade of pink. The aroma has lots of the typical 3F funky brettanomyces character, surprisingly subtle and well blended cherry, and obvious lactic and subtle acetic character. The first sip sends waves of puckering acidity rolling through my mouth that lingers for some time after swallowing. Once my palate gets ’used’ to the onslaught, the admittedly faded cherry flavor is apparent. The funk is definitely there, but this beer is just straight up sour cherries and intense acidity. Really, really great beer. It would be interesting to see what another 3 years does to it.