3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

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

Bottle. Poured a golden red color. Aroma is vinager and sour. Taste is sour with hints of lemon.

750 ml bottle dated 17 January 2006. Pours a hazy gold with a moderate linen white head that lasted through mid-glass and left some spotty lace. The haze eventually clears, revealing lots of tiny carbonation bubbles rising to the surface like a glass of champagne. Tart, funky aroma with lots of barnyard, old leather, and a few citrus notes struggling to be noticed. The flavor is less funky than the aroma, and is more about the fruit with lots of sweet and tart flavors swirling about. Effervescent and lively on the palate. This is a style that I have had some difficulty appreciating, although I must say I enjoyed this one.

Crazy lambic wow tart puckering even just in the nose!!! color is a yellowish orange that is nice and cloudy, very very bubbly. sour earthy barnyard nose and flavor but very refreshing at the same time. nice beer.

February 2004 bottle. Pours hazy golden color with white head. Funky barnyard aroma. Tart flavor with lots of funk. Medium body with average carbonation and a dry finish.

Bottle. Moderate aromas all around. Straw for the malt, herbs for the hops, cobwebs and cellar for the yeast, with a heavy background note of wood and a powerful solvent smell. Head is large, frothy, white with good lacing and is fully lasting. Color is hazy, but sparkling amber/tan. Flavor starts heavily acidic and sour then finishes the same way with loads of bitterness. Palate is medium, watery with a bit of slickness and has an extremely fizzy carbonation. It finishes heavily astringent. Like the Flemish Sours, how the hell does one drink this and say they enjoyed the experience? I’m done being daring with my tasting of the unknown.

bottle - hazy orange beer with almost no foam. Very sour aroma. Reminds on vine. The same for the flavour. Tastes very sour, like a brut cider. A little bit of "cellar" flavour. Very special beer but not my style.

Appearance: Dark orange. Lots of white head. Bottled 2008. Aroma: Sour, citrus fruit. Taste: Very sour. Quenching. Hint of fruit? Info: 375ml bottle, 2/11-2008, 187/300

Pours a slightly hazy pale golden-brown with no head to speak of. Aroma of sweet pineapple, vinigar, cider, quite pungent. First time I tried this was after a bunch of artificially-sweeneted lambics and my tastebuds were not happy. Re-corked it, left it in the fridge for nearly a month, and now I’m liking it a bit more. Very dry but with a lingering sweetness that balances nicely. Vinigar-cidery taste with a touch of spice, like cherry-pie (might be brett?) Thin body, barely carbonated. Not really my cup of tea, but complex enough to be interesting. Wouldn’t really want any great quantity of it, though. Many thanks to Boutip for the trade.