3 Fonteinen Hommage

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

750ml bottle thanks to my friend Julien at Delirium Café. Pours red with a small head. Aroma is big raspberry with hints of cherries. Little tart. Taste is tart but not too much. Big cherries and some raspberries. A bit acidic but not much. The keyword here is balance. it really felt as a whole while having the raspberries and the cherries "fighting" for your palate and nose. Really dry finish. A really special brew dranked with great folks. Nice memories there.

Sampled again with the montreal crew (late May), and it is stilll getting better. The raspberry is coming out really nice- very jammy, red rasp fruit, cassis, and cherry on the nose. Body is smoothing out a bit, plasticy notes are all but gone. Acidity and extreme tartness need to come in, as well as more funk, but that will take time. I have a feeling this will age really well. Just sampled again with Armand, and it seems that the raw plasticyness that I got about 4 months ago has mellowed nicely- the fruit almost springs out a bit more now, and the raspberries seem more "real" to me. Lots of overall red fruits and even soem strawberry noticed int he aroma and flavor. I have decided to bump it up from 4.2 to a 4.4 now. Cant wait for this to come into the states. Should be real soon now!! 750 ml bottle. thanks to Eric for sharing. Pours a bright pinkish almost purple with red/bloody hints on the edges- good carbonation and a fizzy head which dissipates. Aroma of chlorine, and bromine with some funky off raspberry and cherry pie- pedio character and a dirty burning diesel fuel with ethyl and butyl esters but somehow it is still pleasant. Fruity lacto tartness upfront and more dirty sharp sour and acidic house character that most 3F beers have. More cherry and rasp tart fruit flavors in the middle and end with a bitter stomach acid sourness in the end with some light rubber hints and prickly finish. Crazy funky and off the wall lambic. I forgot how much I liked this until I checked my notes.

Thanks to beastiefan2K for bringing this treat. Poured a slightly hazy red color with a thin off-white head. The aroma...perfect! Tart with big leathery notes, horsey, fruity, woody and metallic like wet pennies. Complex and so nice to sniff. The flavor was mildly tart with a cherry finish. Mildly acidic. The body was light and the finish was dry leaving just a little acidity behind.

Brilliant aroma--sour, like parmesan on potatoes, and like licking Chewbacca’s armpits. Flavor might have been less than perfect due to the finish, like a fragrant candle, but the delight here is the sour finish, classic to the style, and about which I’ll make no complaints. Yum!

Bottled. Dark reddish coloured. Unclear. Light reddish head. Raspberries, sweetness, earth and some marcipan in the aroma. Flavour full of earth and raspberries. Acidic touch and sourness with a light sweetish touch. Has some light barnyard notes. Full bodied. Very dry. Sourish fruitsweetness in the end. Very very nice.

Red with a thin white head. Aroma is sour, vinegar, raspberries, cherries. Taste is a light red wine vinegar like character, raspberries, and cherries show with light funkiness, lightly acidic. Real nice stuff.

(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.