3 Fonteinen Hommage

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

Thanks Sliffy. Nice sour cherry aroma, not over the top, but balanced nicely with a hint of oak. Red body with a thin head. The palate is spot on with perfect carbonation. Perfect sourness level in the taste. Mostly cherries for me, even though there are more raspberries in this. Hard to find many faults with this brew.

New batch @ GBBF, the sole reason I attended.The epitome of framboise, a bit young as far as lambics go but none the less amazing still. Hazy reddish-orange with a thin pink head. Fantastic sour raspberry and lambic nose. Very tasty with lots of real raspberry flavour, well balanced sweet and sour ratio (for me anyway as I prefer sour) Dry and quite fizzy with a looooong finish. Can’t wait till it gains some age and due to my lack of patience it’s a good thing I brought 2 bottles home.
It’s about time I re-vamped this rate, theres so much more to this than I noted in my drunken GBBF stupor.
Pours an opaque blood red, slightly orange around the edges where the light penetrates. The nose is sherbert raspberries, juicy cherries and strawberries with yeast and hay notes. Taste is yeasty and tart with so many fruit flavours, all the berries aforementioned and also, lime, kiwi and lemon. I can liken it to several things, raspberry lemonade, sour cherry candy and berry sorbet just to name a few. The finish is dry, so long and tasty you just want to smack your mouth and enjoy for a while. Even though it had only been a couple of months there was definitely some change, it’s gonna be really interesting to see what some real age may yield. I’m so glad I’ve managed to pick up a few more bottles as I knew those two wouldn’t last...

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

750ml bottle. Bright, pink-red colour with a medium white head that vanishes quickly-this looks like desert in a glass. Intense fresh red raspberry aroma with notes of sour cherries, barnyard, and a nice hint of oak. The flavor of this beer is a tour de force of balance and intensity: sweet red raspberries, sour cherries, and barnyard funk. The finish is sour and well controlled, leaving a pleasant sour cherry aftertaste that complements the initial sweetness. I would love to try this again after a couple of years in the cellar. A world class beer!

(3/14/08) After looking for this one everywhere during my 3-week Belgium & Amsterdam trip, turning down one in Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst early in my trip in hope I could find it easily elsewhere, and disappointed by the fact that the guy in Moeder Lambic couldn’t find any more bottles (for 25E) in the cellar, I was thrilled to find this one for 11.5E (!!!) at De Bierkoning in Amsterdam.
Bottle drank at a friends’ house in Amsterdam. Deep red color with a small pinkish head. Magnificent raspberry aroma with some earth and barnyard. Wonderfully tart berries flavor with some citric notes, wood and earth. Great mouthfeel. Amazing.

Pours out redish with huge pink head, which rapidly dimnished. Smells fruity. Taste is tart with the raspberries shining through. Great sour finish. Funky and dry with a little acid.

Bottle at Spuyten Duyvil. Wow! Gorgeous earthy red pour. Aroma luscious lambic juice, wheat, sour raspberry, strawberry, cherry, earth, funk, but all in glorious, full-flavor, full-body balance. Flavor, well, what more can I say after the aroma but that it all just continues in wonderful harmony. A lambic that’s at once splendidly tart, flooringly fruity, and superbly refreshing. My note-taking skills may have eroded over the course of many hours in 95 degree heat, but this one was a thing of beauty.

[Bottle] from ygtbsm94. Thanks Brad!! Pours a clear deep pink with a small, effervescent pink head. I can smell raspberry jam from about two feet away, and undeniable sharpness that hints at the tart lactic acidity. As it warms, the brett character becomes evident as well. The flavor is absolutely amazing. Loads of juicy raspberries, crazy acidity and tartness, just enough funk, and a touch of dry oakiness. Crazy, crazy delicious, and one that I can see aging really well.