3 Fonteinen Hommage

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

Courtesy of AllAboutStout

Bottle: The aroma consists of musty raspberries, moderate woodiness, and mild tartness. It pours a transparent reddish-orange and a small pink head. The flavor starts with a quick sweet raspberries. The flavor turns to moderately tart raspberry in the finish with some faint woodiness. The woodiness lingers in the aftertaste. Light-medium bodied with somewhat lively carbonation.

This is a great 07 bottle thanks to ygtbsm94! Bright hazy red with orange tinge with thin white head. Loads of raspberries, very juicy, cherries, oak barrels, barnyard funk, leather, sour, bread, and musty hops. Complex and tasty. Not for the faint of heart however.

750ml bottle thanks to ygtbsm94, cheers Brad! Aroma has notes of cherries, raspberries, leather, and barnyard funk. Deep medium cherry red hue with a small pink head that nearly diminished and left no lace. Flavor is sweet and really sour with a short finish. Palate is medium bodied and lively. I was no fan of sours but lately it’s all I’ve been craving and this beer is the best I’ve had to date. Very complex and fun with a pucker factor of 10.

March Houston Tasting. Thanks to MaltOMeal for his bottle. Pours a bright red color with no head. Nose of cherries, raspberries and tartness. Flavor is sour, tart cherries. Efferficent and clean...very tasty.

750ml bottle thanks to Sprinkle. Shared at March Houston Tasting. Pours a cloudy rose with a thin white head. Nose of cherries. Taste is of sour cherries. Mouthfeel is tart with some pucker factor. Nice

750ml bottle consumed August 2007 (?). Pours a luminous dark red with a small white/pink head. Seriously seedy, fresh, juicy rapsberries in the nose, vibrant, sticky, hugely forward and intense in the aroma. Musty, sour seedy raspberries, and not just sour from the lambic yeast, but actual sourness from the raspberries, very much an under-ripe, seedy, hugely fruity and juicy. Amazingly complex, juicy, fruity, tart, sour, everything I want in framboise. (4.2)

2007 750ml bottle consumed March 2009. Clean first pour reveals cola-like carbonation that fizzles dead quickly on top of a clear and bright ruby red body. Lactic acid melds exquisitely with the raspberries, but this clean pour seems to lack depth and comes across as plain and subtle. Subsequent pours with some yeast mixed in reveals significantly more depth in the nose. Body is spritzy, there’s some medicinal notes in there, some aspirin, etc. Good but not mind-blowing. Decent balance of lactic acid and acetic acid (resembles Flemish red, actually) which seems to stem from the raspberries themselves. Nice, but somewhat underwhelming. Maybe this one truly does need a few more years, but I think it’s more to do with the base gueuze blend of 3F at the time they made this (look at 2006 and 2007 oude gueuze, it’s not exactly the best example of the beer they’ve made). (3.8)

Bottle from Belmont Station. Color is a darker pink with a bright cream head - fades fast. The star of the show is the aroma, which features a moldy berry nasty funk that could just stop a car. I find both flavor and aroma to be lacking in fruit, which is really only noticeable because of the fruit levels achieved in Schaerbaekse Kriek.

Ruby red brew topped by pink fading head and minimal head. The nose is acidic sour fruits (raspberrty and cherry), oak, hint of brett funk and urine. The taste is more of the same, very sour fruit and light handed funk. The mouth feel is minerally and woody, sprite and lively. It was you expected, nothing more. Seems to be neither funky enough nor earthy enough, perhaps need more age. This bottle is only 1+ year old. No where near the complexity levels of the Scharebeerse Kriek IMO.