3 Fonteinen Hommage

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

Graciously sampled courtesy of the Indy crew, who brought it hard at Footie. 2007 bottle, with a huge vibrant pour, carbonation whipping up the pale pink body and releasing all the wonderfully complex aromas - woody, super dry fruits, champagne. Not much bite to it, as it’s surprisingly easy drinking. Lovely complexity, the kind of thing you could drink forever.

Bottle @ GBBF 2007, London. Hazy light to medium red color with virtually none, fair lacing, off-white, head. Aroma is moderate berry, (raspberry). Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a long duration. Dry finish. ;o)) Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.

Taste @ BA Release thanks to John (wetherel) Pours pink red with a bright white ring. The nose was huge, big spicy razy goodness. The taste was tart, sour, and weird something spicy herbal on the end. Damn good.

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.

pours a reddish pink white head aroma raspberry kool aid vinegar. flavor is rasp berry medicine wet dog mold acidic sourness lemon funk. good sour.

Bottle from Spuyten Duyvil. I was super excited to get to try this beer! Pours a dark red/pink with a beautiful light pink head. Aroma of oak, raspberry, and tartness. Flavor of sweet raspberries, tartness, sugar. Initially this was very sweet but got more sour as I drank it. Quite delicious but it doesn’t beat Schaerbeekse for me.

Pours red/amber with a soft pink head. Tart raspberry and dose of funk to the aroma. Darn, there was a great quote tonight about the funk in this, but I can’t quite remember it. The berry flavor was very fresh, like a not quite rip raspberry, sort of tart and very mildly sour. Not very acidic, but a good dry earthiness.

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.