3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage (all from 2002-*)

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

37.5 cL bottle, thanks to Jeppe. Pours hazy orange with a slowly diminishing off-white head. Aroma is barnyard and orange fruity. Light wood note. Flavour starts solid citric before a dry wooden note appears. Light orange fruity finish with a that classic brett/yeasty tartness. Dry and wooden yet smooth and fruity too - nice balance.

Thanks to JoeMcPhee for sharing - 2002 vintage) - hazy, glowing orange beer - smells of fruit, cork, blue cheese, musty/earthy notes - bracing tartness up front - some phenolics and light cheesy character - a lot of cork and woody flavor - I can almost taste the cellar this was aged in - long, tongue-curling dryness - I enjoyed the strong earthiness of this one.

Bottle 16/04/2002. Deep hazy orange-golden beer with a thick creamy white head. Aroma is very rich and lovely. Soft funky character and a fairly prominent musty/corky aroma. Some strong funkiness and a nice soft fruitiness as well. Flavour is quite earthy and musty. There is a great sweet vanilla and mint aroma that comes up as the beer starts to warm as well. Not terribly sour, but has a great earthy funkiness. I definitely prefer the regular Oude Geuze though.

Bottle (2002). Large, rocky, white, diminishing head with fair lacing. A sparkling, lightly cloudy, light yellow body. Heavy yeast aroma of earth and musty. Aroma of apple and cask wood. Medium body, thin texture, lively carbonation and a bitter finish - to bitter if you ask me. The flavor is moderate sweet, heavy acidic and moderate bitter. Not my favourite gueze because of the bitter finish - and not acidic finish. But the beer is still well balanced and good

2008-04-04. Bright hazy orange body with a big white head that fades. (3+) Aroma is quite musty, modest sweet and sour lemon citrus notes. (7+). Flavour is quite sour, with the sourness seeming to increase in proportion to the size and frequency of your sips. Astringent lemons and citrus seeds. Average palate is just a touch thin but suits it, effervescent. Zippy and complex but pleasantly drinkable in modest quantities. Bottle labeled 2004 Vintage from Bier Tempel, Brugge

Vintage version, 2004, bottle shared with and courtesy of Jerc and Mabel from their recent Belgium trip. Nice dark, hazy, fiery yellow, small white head. Aroma is really sour and really funky - almost spicy. Intense sourness in taste, very acidic. Just tad thin in the body - makes it a little too acidic. Otherwise complex mouth puckering loveliness.

75cL bottle, bottled on 2/2/07. I’m a 3 Fonteinen whore, the only thing "bad" I can say about this particular bottle is that the aroma was just a little off. Aside from that, this expensive ass bottle is ~almost~ reason enough to move to Beersel and become a bum hoping to lick the empty barrels as they are cleaning them.

(3/11/08) Bottle at Le Poechenellekelder in Brussels. 2004 vintage. Hazy orange with medium white head. Aroma of barnyard and a lot of citrus. Dry flavor full of citric-like sourness and nice bretty funk. Medium-bodied with lively carbonation. Excellent.