3 Fonteinen Akkurats Oude Geuze 50/50

Formerly brewed at 3 Fonteinen
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Beersel, Belgium

Bottle 75cl. [ Vintage 2003 ].
Unclear light to light medium yellow orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grapefruit, acidc lemon, barnyard notes, wood. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet, moderate acidic, and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. [250908]

0.75 bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm (according to my notes this was 50/50 mix of Drie Fonteinen and De Cam, but I was pretty loaded at midnight after a day at the beer Festival). Thanks oh6gdx and tbone_! Hazy yellow brown color. Strogn acidic lemony and grapefruity aroma. Lemony and grapefruity flavor with wild yeast bitterness.

Bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm Beer Festival 2007, after festival RB night
Hazy golden color; creamy head. Amazing aroma: malt, wet wool, brie cheese, light leather, cork oak, dust, light grapefruit, mushrooms… Aggressive, extremely astringent, some sourness, with a light mix of citrus fruits (tangerine and grapefruit mostly). Very bitter.
Complex and dreamy.

(Bottle) Pours amber. Citric acid aroma with tones of mould and wood. Some diesel is notable. Citric, lemon and light grapefruit flavour with tones of mould and wood. Medium acid, rather tart and very dry. Medium bodied. Nice.

Bottle at Akkurat - again Thanks Jens. Cloudy yellow - white head. Horsey, dusty, earthy, grape, gooseberries, citrus, high dryness. It is beginning to shop its age !!

Bottled
Orange color, small white head. Fruity, sour nose. Very sour grapefruity flavor. Simple, a bit bitter alcoholic. Earthy. Quite alcoholic gueuze.

Bottled@Akkurat. Orange colour, white head. Aroma is really sour and apricotty. Flavour is sour fruits with some yeast, grass and wood. Really pleasantly balanced.

Bottle, Akkurat - does this place have any rooms? A cloudy deep golden coloured brew that offers a fairly small white head that mostly lasts. The drie fonteinen character cannot necessarily be rezognized upfront, it is indeed rather cheesy, basementy, almost earthy, certainly mushroomy cellar-like flavors that coexist beside the more typical citrus heaven. In mouth, the smooth champaign carbonation and soft medium fullness feel more typical while the funkiness seems a bit diminished or under control. This means that it’s mostly about wooden citrus, pretty much all of them, though lemon ould be the winner of the lot. Grows quite dry indeed and fairly acidic, but never agressive. Not 3F’s most interesting effort, but to call it minor would be an inconceivable overstatement. Still very fresh and bright.