3 Fonteinen Hommage

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

My Bottom Line:
Spicy, herbal ideas are rooted in bursting raspberries, leading to gum-licking sour goodness and the perfect dose of fruity sweetness. Drie Fonteinen have crafted another masterpiece of a lambic which should be phenomenal a few years from now.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-There is no ring of foam to crowns the murky deep red.
-The body is sturdy and carbonation suitably lively (yet it never impedes on the flavor profile).
-These wild herbal notes within the fruitiness are almost coniferous at times.
-When paired with its predecessor, 1999 Framboos, we could notice many similarities in the aroma, yet this Hommage was not as mature and cohesive flavor wise.
-The juicy raspberry tartness makes you imagine a few seeds going by.
Addendum:
-This is already getting better and better. The nose is simply stunning and the flavor profile seems to be following now. A year or two from now, it could very well be as orgasmic as the Framboos.

Bottles. And more bottles. God this is good.

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.

Bottle, sampled at Tria Fermentation school on 3/15/08. Pours hazy red-purple, with a moderate-sized pink head. Intense raspberry aroma, with hints of leather, sour cherry, and wild yeast. Moderate lactic flavor is nicely complimented by raspberry. Wild yeast, cherry pie flavor and oaky notes add to the complexity. The raspberry works exceedingly well in this lambic; when it hit my palate it tasted and felt like i was eating fresh raspberries. This was definitely the highlight of the evening for me. I can’t wait to try this again!

750 bottle thanks to Yves Panneels at In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst. Beautiful light purple color heavily filtered. Nose of fruity raspberries, tart, woody-sharp and distinct. Taste comes off somewhat woody, very tart, with a nice mix of cherries and raspberries. Very light body with nice carbonation-even after 2 years in the bottle. Not an overwhelming fruity taste but the tartness and tanginess and evervescence make this a wonderful drink. Way too easy to put down. The best of it’s kind.

Bottle @ Ölbloggarprovning syd. Ruby color with light pink head. Red berries cherry raspberry sweet and sour nice balance. taste sweet red beeries raspberries sour citrus well balanced.

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.

[1461-20080531] 750mL bottle. Tart raspberry aroma has lots of wood barrel sourness. Murky, dark red brown body with a medium-lasting foamy light pink head. Sour cherry flavour has some raspberry tartness a bit of pleasant dry acidity. Medium body is sour. Wonderful beverage, lovely balance, perfect state of sourness.
(Post-Mondial Tasting)

This was a really nice bright pink color with a tenacious head that was only slightly less colorful. The smell was delicious raspberries with a hint of lambic. The flavor was really outstanding like eating raspberry jam with huge chunks of raspberries. The fruit component was fantastic. i didn’t detect much funkiness and it was only slightly tart but overall I was very impressed. This is probably the best fruit lambic I have had if not a close second to Cantillon Fou Foune. Amazing beer. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 09-22-2009 01:17:57