3 Fonteinen Beersel Bio

3 Fonteinen
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Belgian Ale
Beersel, Belgium

Metalic nose with some yeast and grass. Hazy orange color with a huge fluffy head. Soft apple-y malt, sugar sweet middle, light spice end that is gritty at times. Think body, chewy even, but fairly reserved overall. Nice.

Small layer of head on this orange colored brew. Intense metallic nose - like copper. Weird yeast and cellery taste.

A Mes rate Very heavy yeast and sediment. A little too much for my liking. Head vanished almost instantly. Thick, cloudy and oily. Slight hint of honey in there but to be honest I am far too overwhelmed with the yeast. Not great.

Bottle. Sweet apple/peach aroma. Orange yellow color - cloudy with tiny head. Sweet apple malt flavor with slight acidic finish. Fruity and enjoyable.

Bottle provided by Olivier at the 4/17/05 Montreal tasting. HEAVILY sedimented and unfiltered, chunky, hazy golden-yellow beer, with an initially small white head that immediately recedes to ring then nothing. Aroma of wheat, vanilla, pils malt (honey, light corn), husky malt shells, bland nectarines, spongecake, more wheat and tons of drying, bland yeast. Flavor starts out with yeast chewiness, tons of wheat, light hints of lemon and honey. Some notes of corn-like lager flavors and a touch of cream. But take all that and add about a gallon of water to it. Horribly watery, flat body, perhaps the most watery Belgian beer I can remember drinking. This can’t be a good sample. . .It’s funny though, I kept remarking how this, taken as a blond ale, or a pale lager, would get a tremendously high rating. Unfortunately this is a tarwebok or some version of that, not a pale lager or blond ale. . .

750 ml bottle imbibed immoderately with beerbuzzmontreal, ClarkVV, MartinT, tiggmtl, olivier, Rastacouere and Simon at the Farmhouse Ales and More! tasting in Montreal. Ridiculously yeasty-chunky oily blonde body scares me...little head to speak of....in the nose, more interest with near-cloying honey, heavy yeast, bandaids, butter and sour mashed grains...body reminiscent of a premium lager, grainy-sweet, with little hop presence and almost no Belgian yeastiness...bit of late pepper and honey helps keep it from being a total bore, but hardly worth an effort to get...

The Lure:
Kiln-dried hay and obvious wheat wafts exit the creaminess in hordes. Humongous chunks of harsh yeast fly through the urine suggestions.

The Festivities:
Quenching wheat character is straightforward and dictatorial, and oversees the light citrus and dry hay interplay. Simple and redundant.

Transcendence:
Choking on a haystack.

Grainy, raw wheat aroma. Fairly clear golden colour with shy white ring of head that leaves some lace. Plenty of clumps of yeast that refuse to settle. Fairly sweet in flavour with some cardboard tones, plenty of raw wheat and grainy flavours. Seems very dry and over-attenuated despite the sweetness. Medium body with fair carbonation. Bottle enjoyed with beerbuzzmontreal, ClarkVV, MartinT, muzzlehatch, olivier, Rastacouere and Simon.