3 Fonteinen Millennium Geuze

Formerly brewed at 3 Fonteinen
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Beersel, Belgium

750ml bottle, vintage 1998
Consumed at de Heeren van Lindekerke, Denderleeuw, May 2006 (8 years cellared)
Beautifully perfect glowing murky soft orange colored body, with a large puffed head and considerable lacing. Very fresh smelling, with a raw grain and wheat scent, a musty nose of wheat, horseblanket, straw, festive spices. Tremendously appetizing aroma. Flavor is juicy, fruity (sweet), tart, spicy, spirtzy. Finish is juicy, wet, salivating... tingling... this is like a liquid massage for the tongue. I don’t care how stupid that sounds, it’s true. Lingering aftertaste is oily and smooth... this geuze is not too aggressive, but it works without having to be... it’s incredibley delicious, and salivating - that’s the word that kept coming to mind... like I could never stop drinking this geuze because it makes me thirsty for more with each sip. One of the best.

Photograph of Bottle & Glass
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Bottle. Pours a bright orange body with a bready-airey off-white head and sticky lace sheets. The aroma is very dry and grassy, lemon, hay, and other such woody funk characteristics. Spritzy carbonated body. Flavour has more of a gritty, earthy feel and is brazen with oak flavours and less lemon citrus. Finishes tart minus the fruit character. Bready with some leather funk. Had this at Heeren van Liedekercke, what a wonderous place!

Bottle at Heeren van Liedekercke - thanks to Mike (mds) for sharing!
Off-white, rocky head. Good lace. Hazy, orange body. Aroma of apples, apricots, plums, oranges and other soft fruits. The fruitiness is very fresh. Heavily acidic, moderately bitter initial flavour. Moderately bitter, moderately bitter finish. Somewhat tart. Lightly to medium bodied. Fizzy carbonation. A typical Armand De Belder blend, with some more tartness than the ’regular’ oude gueuze. Somewhat late, but I like the beginning of this millennium..

Bottle at De Herren van Liedekercke. Hazy golden colour with a white head. Barnyard aroma with grapefruit and wood. Acidic flavor with grapefruits and some hints of wood. Long nice sourness in the aftertaste. Lovely.

[bottle at Kulminator] Orange colour with a big fluffy head. Complex aroma, grapefruit, yeast, wood, lots of acidity. full bodied and very very tart.

Bottled. Deep hazy orange coloured. Very complex aroma with wood, acidity, horseblanket and grapefruit. Loads of grapefruits in the flavour. Quite full bodied. Excellent.

Hazy orange, rich cotton-like foam. Grapefruit, brets, wood, cork, lemon and sour apricots in aroma. Acidic flavour of wood, lemon-peels, cork and brets. Lively carbonation. Sour grapefruity and woody aftertaste. Really nice.

No#80. Eh maybe i wasnt ready for this yet. Aroma is sour and salty. And taste is just sourness, way to sour for me. Up from 2.6 -4.9 Bottle in Da hearen, the 3rd last bottle in Belgium? Pours with still massive carbonation, big rocky head. Aroma is unmistakably drie fountainin, appley dry tartness, funky dusty yet clean balance of wheat malt and old hop. Taste is just as desirable. This was such a treat a one off special that i thought id never get to try again. Too bad this is most certainly the last.