3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze 1998 (50th Anniversary)

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

RBESG2008: 75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a slowy collapsing white head. Aroma is dry wooden and orange fruity. Flavour is smooth orange fruity and nicely acidic with a light yeasty touch towards the finish. Nice wooden base to a delicate orange citric flavour into the finish. Nice lingering dry and light sulphorish into the far finish. Very smooth and balanced.

Bottle. Very tart, sour and dry, farmyard, hay, lemon rind, very long bone-dry finish, it is a real shame they don’t make this one anymore, very tasty stuff.

Bottle shared with very good friends (drank in 2008): Poured a light orangey color gueuze with a huge pure white bubbly head with good retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of funky barnyard notes mix with some well balance tart/sour notes. Light touch of oak is noticeable as well. Taste is a wonderful mix between some funky barnyard –like notes with some medium sour notes with light oak. Easily drinkable with almost no acidity and some great carbonation. Very well balance overall and it is aged gracefully but I can’t help tot hint that it is slightly less gracious then the 1999 vintage drank a year or two ago.

Bottle 75 cl, bottled November 28, 1998. Bottled opens with a big bang, as the beer is really gratefull to be able to get out of the bottle after almost 10 years of being in that dusty green bottle. Pours an orange yellow with a big white and noisy sparkling head that fades pretty quick. An aroma of citrus and frozen sour apples, fresh hay and sawdust. The flavor is really, really good, mildly sour with notes of citrus, apples and sour white grapes and and bitter notes like in bitter lemon soda. A great bitter and sour finish makes this the best beer I ever had.

Smells like spider web, fermented wheatgrass juice, stale carrots, musty horse hooves. Looks and feels like it was frozen in the Canadian tundra for 12 hours or even in someone’s freezer. Tastes like it was stuck in a rotting pit of crab apple cores, gooseberries, and unripe olives doused with salad dressing.

Cloudy, peachy colour. Pear in the smell. Really sour, acidic taste. Almost like in unsweetened peche. I could drink this. A lot. and then another.

Bottle (Bager) at ØLklubben. Unclear yellow - white head. Fruity, gooseberries, light dusty, very smooth, mint, citrus zest, light woody, strawberries, light earthy, dirt. Very nice & smooth.

Tak til Bager. Drukket i Ølklubben. Lys orange og uklar med hvidt skum. Lav kulsyre. det sødlige dominerer i forhold til det sure. Citrusskal, træ, mynte og jordbær.det er frugtet og lidt bolcheagtigt. smager virkelig godt. godt det ikke altid skal være så gummerne hviner.