3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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375 ml bottled on Nov 18, 2010, purchased from Ledger’s a few months ago. Cork was chueco, and ready to go. Citrusy floral volatile aroma gives way to oak, dried apricot and damp linens (a refined barn yard, if you will). There’s quite good clarity here, and color is golden with a brassy orange hue topped with half-inch plush, persistent white head of tightly-packed tiny to medium bubbles with rising columns, leaving some lacing. Medium body and perky effervescence support a flavor profile rich with some triple cream soft French cheese, tropical fruit and fruit punch around a core of dried cantaloupe and honey that is then punctuated by quite tart lactic and red fruit sour, followed by a sweet lull then a blooming finish of fresh grapefruit that dries and sweetens. Lemon meringue flavors emerge as it warms. (Seems like you can taste oak in the dregs.) Here’s to Lucky!

Served on bottle at le bier circus. Barmans rec. pours pale gold. Frothy and long lasting head. Sweet vinegar on the nose. Sour green apple and white grapes. Tasty. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

375mL from warehouse beverage, 2009 bottled date.. Nice and bubbly big foamy white head, nose is ??? I can’t place it maybe oak and sour white wine? Taste is sharp and acidic with a bite in the back of the mouth.. I’m not getting the complexity and I much prefer a kriek or framboise

Bottled Dec 12th 2009. Pours a cloudy apple cider with very high carbonation! Aromas of sour apples, oak, slight cheese, earthiness, slight hay, and spice, and a mellowed out fruitiness. Flavors of light oak, mellowed aged sour apples, and cork. Yeasty, very sour, dry, crisp, refreshing, mostly clean finish. Great one to cellar!

75cl bottle for the first #FFdA. Pours cloudy amber with a fizzy sparkling head. The aroma is soft, really citric, like a fresh lemon, with a bit of vinegar and the classic barnyard geuze notes. The taste is pure acidity, but on the citric side more than on the vinegar side, with lots of fresh lemon and with a long aftertaste that turns sweet after a while. True to its style, no workarounds in this one. Doesn’t surprise, doesn’t need to :-).

375 ml bottle. Maybe the 5th time I had it. Pours a beautiful gold pour with frothy white head, a bit of lacing. Aroma is quite pungent, wet hay, quite cheesy, much more lactic than Cantillon, not as bretty, grass, etc. Taste is sour of course, with a grassy twist on the finish and a long lingering sourness in the aftertaste. Palate is heavier than some other gueuzes I’ve had, there is something about 3F that just makes the palate richer. Strong prickly carbonation. Delicious, a very nice go to.

375ml bottle, bottled in 2010. I have more of these in my cellar to age, but I had to crack this one right now so I could get a feel as to how it is doing, and the overall experience of the Oude geuze. Here goes: pours a beautiful cloudy orange color, like an orange julius (if you know what that it). An initial 5 finger head eventually dies down to a 1 finger head that sticks around for a while. Nose is pure bliss for any lambic lover: cheese, funk, dirty socks, citrus, hay, rotten crotch, sunshine warming up a damp meadow. Fucking amazing. An almost impossible act to follow, the taste delivers ever more. It is delicate where it needs to be, but can also deliver the knock out blow when you aren’t paying attention. Sour, funky, sunshine citrus puts your palate in its proper place. This is a beer that is better than you, you don’t deserve it, and you know it. Bow down.

10 cl sample @ Gastropub Tuulensuu Gueuze blind tasting. BBE 12/2019. Bottled 10.12.2009.
Originally rated on 20100925. (6+3+6+3+14)
Pours clear orange color with small head. Aroma of fruits, grapes and grass. Flavor of grapes, goose berries, fruits and yeast. Very sour and tangy palate.
Placed #10 of 15.

UPDATED: MAY 21, 2012 Tasted @ Gastropub Tuulensuu geuze blind tasting 2012. #3/15 overall rating

2009 vintage - Pours almost clear, light orange with a small foamy head. Aroma of earthy notes, currants, and ripe berries. Taste of currants, berries, some sourness, tart fruits, spices and hints of honey. Finish is medium bodied, slightly tart and fruity. Well balanced and tasty.

bottle @ Haand festival. We tried two different vintages, and they were years apart. One looked and smelled like a nice barley wine, put was very sour. (in the bad way) The other looked, smelled and tasted like a proper geuze. weird...

Bottle from wine warehouse. Pours dark golden with a lot of white head. Smells a bit like sweet tarts on the nose. Nice tartness on the tongue the feels rounded and mellowed. Theres a sharpness to the taste and a funkiness as well. Finishes clean. Notice example of style.