3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20Thanks to MaxxDaddy on RB for bringing this bottle to Campground Brewdown. Yet another Drie Fonteinen off the list.
A - Pours murky brown with a small one finger tall off-white head leaving very small trails of lace down parts of the glass.
S - Smells of very light funk, dark candied sugar, dark fruits, oak, caramel and a light mineral quality. This one isn’t as funky as I was expecting.
T - Starts off with some sweet caramel malt and plenty of dark candied sugar that never really go away. Hints of dark fruits, oak, light musty funk and some minerals help to break up the sweetness. Finish is pretty dry, lingering on the palate long after the finish.
M - Medium body with moderate carbonation. Kinda sweet with some lingering dryness.
O - I enjoyed this one for what it is. It definitely sports some interesting flavors but it really isn’t my style. Fun to try but I wouldn’t actively seek it out.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
For what it is it’s a great beer. Not a favourite style of mine. Still another stable good beer from Armand.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750mL bottle at Grote Dorst, pours a beautiful opaque dark orange amber with a medium off-white head.
Aroma of the traditional 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze qualities with a subtlety of candied sugar -- with loads of barnyard funk, leather and a hint of candied sugar. Flavour is similar -- probably the least sweet faro I’ve had. There are notes of barnyard funk, leather and a subtle use of candied sugar. Very complex and highly drinkable. Delicious stuff, though not in the most elite calibre of 3 Fonteinen beers.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
75cl green glass bottle that is gold foiled, caged and corked with a bottled on date of 25/01/2008 and best by date of 01/2012. I’m drinking this March 18, 2013 so it has had time to funk right up, hopefully. It pours copper with a slight haze and supporting a light tan colored head of foam. The aroma is a mix of aged cherries and wet old wood with a good dose of earthy moldy basement every now and then. A few more tugs and I get an additional light note of sweet something, malts maybe. This smells like a slightly soured barleywine, I like it. The taste is woody tart aged cherries that leans into a blunted basement wet plank of wood like sensation. It is smooth and blunted and blended and a little thin on the palate. Nice stuff.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Botella @ Mikkeller Bar with KingCecil and matey Jack. Hazy deep golden, short bubbly head. Lovely tart berry fruity funky sweet like aroma. Good filling mouthfeel indeed. Flavour: fruits and berries and just so lovely tart, sweet like and salty bit like too, lovely acid, dry,
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
75 cl bottle.
Originally rated on 20101126.
Pours murky amber color with a medium head. Aroma of sweet and ripe fruits, citrus fruits also, some yeast and spices. Flavor of lots of fruits, some berry notes, yeast and spices. Surprisingly sour for a faro. Excellent.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 2008 vintage. Thanks a bunch Theis. Pours murky brownish red. Minimal head. You get a lot of grain, sour dough, rye bread notes, herbal and spicy notes, lacto, vinegar notes, green apples. A bit oxidised. Taste is like sultana raisin juice with hits of dry lemon and loads of lacto. Dried fruits, and apple cider vinegar. Really nice!
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Poured from a 750ml bottle. A very balanced sour. Notes of peach, cherry, sweet, lactose, sour apple, malty. This is very easy to drink.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
This was a treat, nice to finally see the top of the faro ladder! .. . pours a murky tan .. medium foam .. . trodden prune, clumpy sugar, barn bucket, and rope funk .. . slick mouth .. . pretty tasty . . .. Well, I could be wrong, but I believe, uh, diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2009 bottle. Not much in the appearance and hardly any carbonation. The scent is a tad funky. I picked up on a nice fruit scent. There is primarily sour grapes in the flavor. Overall a fine drink for its style. The palate isn’t hit hard and the tartiness fades nicely.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Very sessionable gueze due to the big caramel flavour. Very strange, even for a belgian lambic. Thanks Jack for a good couple of hours on the verandah.
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