3 Fonteinen Akkurats Oude Geuze 50/50

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

A hazy orange beer with no head. The aroma is lovely sour. The flavor is sour with notes of grapefruit and wood and a dry finish.

Bottled. Cloudy pale orange. Citric barnyardy aroma. Lively, fresh and acidic with firm malt character. Complex and well balanced.

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]

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.

Moderate tan colour with a decent level of cloudiness. Woody gueuze with notes that remind me of Montgomery’s Cheddar. Funky, musty, actually somewhat light flavour.

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.

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

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.