UPDATED: JUL 7, 2023 Hazy amber body with lasting ivory foam. Classic Gueze aromas with dry wood, dry hay, dandelion, fresh spring meadow, cobwebs, mild barnyard. Medium bodied with average co2. Pale wheat, cobwebs musty, dusty, dry hay, spring meadows, barnyard flavors with a medium sourness throughout __ excellent ( Long lost note transcribed verbatim from a May 16, 2014 Red River trailer park tasting )

UPDATED: MAY 13, 2023 Poured from 750mL bottle. Opaque medium orange gold with white head. Vinous funk, excellent balance.

UPDATED: MAY 13, 2023 750ml shared with Ryan and a Pittsburgh gang. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: amazing sweet red wine barrel sophisticatedly accompanied by funk and sweetness. Taste: along the same lines, super sophisticated and complex - moderate and balanced funk, wine barrel, light sweetness. Overall: amazing integration, incredible product!

UPDATED: APR 18, 2023 Bottle shared at the source. Kozvetlen a tavasz utan pukkantva, igy az osszehasonlitas elkerulhetetlen. Fuszeresebb es kevesbe kesernyes mint a Lente, ugyanakkor ezeket leszakitva meglehetosen hasonlo is. Citrusos, erett, oxidalt szolos jellegu, nemi tolgyes melyseggel.

UPDATED: SEP 10, 2022 Unlabelled bottle at da Droom. Lively on opening. Pours bronze gold. Huge creamy white head settles to a soft mousse. Nose has aged sodden wood. Some raisin like fruit. Missus is eating a Madeleine with this and it smells very similar. Some leathery funky fusty farmyard character. Taste is sweet and nearly caramel like with soft funky wet leather tartness. No acidity just a soft foamy feel to it. Light oaky finish. Wonderful.

UPDATED: AUG 17, 2021 Golden color with a small white head that left nice lacing on the glass. Oaky, wood, lacto, lime, hay, and a sour finish.

UPDATED: AUG 10, 2021 Bottle, 750 ml at Lambikodroom. Shared with Miro B, Hrvoje, Gerardo, Miro and Kris. Hazy deep orange with medium white head. Fruity, some nuts, Tad sweet, caramel, chewy, funky, medium sourness. Seems less funky and complex than Lente, but still very nice and gentle.

UPDATED: AUG 3, 2021 The summer version in this highly coveted series of ‘seasonal geuzes’ by 3 Fonteinen’s Armand Debelder, one of the last to contain lambic brewed by Debelder himself before the ‘thermostat incident’ that put an end to brewing. I never had this version when it was released as a one-off back in 2011 and it has become increasingly difficult (and expensive) to find them as vintage bottles, so I was ecstatic to learn that Lambik-o-Droom is now selling a remainder of these ten year old vintage bottles for on-site consumption. Dusty bottle – complete with cobwebs and even a shriveled dead spider on it – without label, but I will assume that the guy who served it, picked the right one from their stock. Thick, dense, off-white, thickly plaster-like lacing, very stable head remaining closed for a very long time, on a misty deep ‘honeyish’ orange blonde beer with amber tinge, turning darker as the bottle gets emptied – and showing a lively swirl of sparkling, so apparently carbon dioxide levels have not suffered from ten years of storage, on the contrary. Utterly refined, delicate bouquet: a lot of medium dry sherry from oxidation, but matching remarkably well with the ‘original’ lambic features which are largely intact, though in a softened way; impressions, apart from that old sherry effect, include old wet wood, dried apricot, roses, dried thyme, old straw, dusty cellar, mandarin peel, hints of grass silage, purple gooseberry, very old dry white wine. Fruity onset, very lively and convincingly so even, with a lot of old wrinkled apple, dried apricot, gooseberry and yellow-green plum, bathing in a finely tingling carbonation effect lifting up the flavours rather than interfering with them, thanks to all these minute bubbles; a sweetish peachy core is there too, but soft tartness prevails. Soft, almost velvety mouthfeel, soft bread-crusty, fluffy malt core gently dried by lactic tartness, wet-woody tannins and strong ‘old sherry’ oxidation, while all the estery complexity, refreshing apple and gooseberry sourness and, eventually, moldy orange-like Bretty funkiness add further layers of flavour. This whole flavour structure remains remarkably soft, elegant and even juicy, a bit orange-like even in the end, while a thyme- and dried lemon peel-like, earthy, ‘deep’ bitterness closes things off in a most delicate way. I unfortunately missed this one when it was young, but this bottle is clearly ‘graced with age’, having matured perfectly with a layer of old sherry that matches the rest of the flavours, which have remained lively and intricate as ever. An absolutely beautiful, very ‘malse’ geuze – compared with a strongly oxidized and therefore rather disappointing bottle of Horal Mega Blend of the same age that I got a sample from later the same day, it is clear that this Armand’4 series is a very powerful one, one which can stand the test of time like only the greatest geuzes can. Bafflingly beautiful and sophisticated.

UPDATED: JUL 1, 2020 Rami Rami is drinking an Armand'4 Zomer (Summer) by Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen at Artezan - craft beer pub Mocno owocowe, dosc juz czuc wiek, tak papierowo nie piwnicznie, w uscie jest nieco kwasnosci, nieco slodyczy, grzecznie dosc, te owoce takie morele jakby? Slodkie, suszone? Ocet? Moze mini w posmakach. Pyszka, unikalne, ale... za stare kapke

UPDATED: APR 3, 2020 (Bottle, purchased ar De Bier Tempel, Brussels, a couple of years ago) Pale amber colour, slightly hazy, with frothy off-white head. Fruity, sourish nose with cellar, grapefruit, sour grapes, unripe apricots, barnyard and funk. Fruity, tart taste with pink grapefruit, wood, cellar, unripe fruit, tart apples, apricots, grapes and a solid, but balanced, barnyard tartness in the finish. Medium body, dry. Tart and funky, still elegant and very nicely balanced. Decent lockdown consolation beer. Ridiculously good.