3 Fonteinen Doesjel

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

375, corked and baled. Thanks so much for bringing this home and cracking it, Skoi! This was definitely a good bit of a rare treat. Pours hazy, grainy light amber with pink overtones. No head or lace to speak of. Big green apple, lemon, and grapefruit nose. Lightish, fairly still body. Tons of sour fruit bouncing back and forth across the mid-palate. Very sharp and distinct and actively attacking flavor profile. Not a gueuze of infinite complexity, but a very bracing and refreshing one for sure. Delicious.

Sampled at Dickinsonbeer’s Hoboken gathering - hazy straw-colored beer - nice wild blue cheese funk in the aroma, with moderate acidity - some salty/briny character in the flavor, with cheese/funk/barnyard, and some phenolic character that I’ve come to expect from 3F - finishes with a little more salty/briny flavor - more acidic than sour, but still another quality offering from these folks.

Cloudy golden colour with a very small head. Malty, tart fruity aroma with yeasty and dusty notes. Malty, light sweet fruity flavor with a vague tart note. Yeasty, dusty finish.

Very smooth gueuze, maybe the lack of carbonation tames the acidity a bit, but a softer feel giving way to an unreal amount of flavors. Dry wild yeast flavors up front giving that barn/funky scent, citrus and cheesie hops, dried pineapple. Medium acidity, moderate sourness.

Bottle, shared by dickinsonbeer. Color is somewhere between straw yellow and gold. Aroma is sour and leathery, citrusy. The flavor is the same, very reminiscent of the oude geuze, but a little less sour overall.

Bottle at Paul’s Hoboken Gathering:Pours a headless hazy golden. Funked nose with some damp basement, sharp cheese and lemon juice acidity. Slick body with a tart flavor. Cleansing lemon acidity, vinegar and a bone dry finish. A solid Lambic, easy drinking.

Bottle Hazy, amber/golden body, with a good head, but this disappears quickly. Aroma of citrus, orange, yeast, dust, ... The aroma is not that great. Heavily sour, lightly bitter flavour. This is very great beer, quite balanced and has a nice complexity. It lacks indeed some carbonation in order to be a gueuze, but still it remains nice.

12.7oz bottle labeled Bottle Date Feb 23, 2006. Poured a deeper and hazy golden color with just a trace of a head. Aromas of wood, funkiness, citrus, green apples, and yeast. Tastes of funkiness, green apple sourness, with some vanilla.