3 Fonteinen Hommage

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

(750ml, Bottled 14/02/07) Pours a cloudy, glowing ruby red body with a spare light pinkish head. Aroma of earthiness, dried tartness of raspberries, cherry, and florals. Lightly acidic flavor of raspberries, florals, and apple with a soft mouthfeel and a dry finish. Not nearly as tart as expected for this young of a lambic from 3 Fonteinen.

750ml shared courtesy of egajdzis. Bottle labeled BB 14/02/2007. Poured a medium reddish color with an averaged sized pinkish head. Aromas of funkiness, leather, raspberries, cherries, berries, and wood. Tastes of cherries, raspberries, wood, and vanilla. Nice tart finish.

Pure raspberry red coloured and fully veiled. Light and natural white head. Purely extracted raspberry, savvy and full of vitality, yet nervously juicy. Growing cherry presence as it warms. Hard to decipher, the wild yeast brings up a cheesy and bready backing, but the main character might be the huge citrus backings: lemony, grapefruity. Elegant to the max. It unveils itself not as perfumey as the original Framboos at this point, but perhaps as vibrant, not as acidic, but more jammy and in its own way, almost as brilliant. Fleshy palate, pie-like, delicate in its character fullness. Champaigny body. Superb and to me easily one of the best new beers of the year.

Unlabled bottle from Duff, from the gbbf, had the day it arrived so yeast not settled. Pours beautiful, really deep pink, hazier the more i pout in naturally, but the head is also very pink, something that i havnt found before in a fruit beer. Aroma is super rasberry, like as soon as the bottl opened the rasberry filled the air, hint at tart berry fruit, very slight funky nuttyness. Taste is just outstanding, theres soo much berry fruit in here it could almost be fruit juice, the tartness off the rasberry, the dryness off the lambic base, i had the entire 750 to myself in about 20 mins, theres poissibly never been such a drinkable ale. Carbonation is very fine and gives it a great appearance. An experiance an one i want again asap! RERATE: Same score. Gee this has developed, the sourness has totally kicked in, the sweetness is not all gone but its alot sourer than what it was. Tart pluckering, very drinkable. The cherrys are noteable now too and the rasberry is tammed down somewhat. Its sharp and cleanses the mouth well. Carbonation doesnt seem as excessive but still ads an edge to it. Beautifully made and complex to a level i wasnt expecting.

Bottle... This beer rocks!... Cloudy, ruby-colored ale with orange highlights and a small, fizzy, off-white head. Smells like a marriage of New Glarus Raspberry Tart and an excellent, traditional, highly acidic Belgian framboise. Mild, smoky, meaty phenols and a note of raw leather. The flavor offers restrained sweetness, mild, aged hop bitterness along with lovely, biting, funky acidity. Fruity raspberry and modest cherry. Yum! Medium to full-bodied with a creamy, then abrasive mouthfeel and moderate carbonation. Fruity, wonderfully tart, Mojave-dry finish. Thanks to boboski for making it possible for me to try this new rendition of Framboos!

Bottle thanks to wetherel: Pours a hazy ruby amber with a thin ring of wispy-lacing off-white head. Aroma of lightly sweet pale malts and big sweaty leathery funky tart fruity rasperries. Body starts slightly oily and earthy sweet with nice tart fruity complexity and oaky balance. Finishes leathery and tart with mild sweetness. A nice fruit lambic.

courtesy of fiulijn - slightly hazy deep reddish colour, no foam; robust raspberry aroma, hay and vinegar; medium-bodied and highly sour, low carbonation, slightly oily; long and dry raspberry and cherry (I feel more than the 5% present) finish with notes of dust and hay - complex and marvelously executed

Shortlived dark pink head, fed by very good carbonation over deep red beer, varying from clear ruby over the colour of bloodorange juice to a muddier brownish red. Having rested the necessary months, here are the raspberries - superb! There’s an additional fruity smell, that was in the beginning clearly cherry. Little perfumey, but in the best way possible. Very perfumey flavours as well, a jumble of raspberry, cherry, lemon, sour apples, a tutti frutti of the best quality. Finish is still mainly sour cherries, very ripe. Aggressive acidity, the lactic, fruitacids and the carbonation confluent. Still, there is that much fruit, that no one could call this light. I did not believe the Master when I told him, after the first tasting, that I found too much cherry, he told me it would better with aging. Now the drinking accompanies humble pie - Armand was right. This is heaven and it is growing full of raspberries.