3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek

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

Bottle at Aba Jour, Gent, 06-12-07 Pours almost blood red in colour, very tart as one would expect, nice sour cherry nose. Fruity, tangy, cherry taste, little bit dry, wonderful beer thats very refreshing.

375ml bottle. Deep opaque red with a short lived cherry coloured head. Strong cherry aroma with some almonds, yeast and the barnyard. Flavour was very dry and tart, with more cherries and some citrus. The finish was very dry. Excellent.

From bottle : Pours a dark red color with a small short lived head. Nose is cherries and hay, like a barnyard for sure, and some sour notes. Taste is very tart and sour cherries, with the sour kicking in at the end alot. Palate is medium thin body, and nice feel in the mouth. Good good.

Pours hazy red with medium short lasting head. Aroma is sour with notes of cherries, hay, barnyard and horseblanket. Flavor has citrus and sour cherries with the presence of wood, hay and grapefruit. Very nice.

37,5 cl, bottle. Deep red color and pink head that’s mostly disappearing. Clear and sparkling. Medium body, thick feel and soft carbonation. The beer is well balanced and only lightly sour. Aroma of cherry and oak/wood. Finish with some sweetness and bitterness from the cherries. A great beer.

Seriously, I’ve never rated this? 75 cL shared among friends, pours a dull red color with some sparse bubbles on top. Low carbonation in this one. Intensely fruity tart cherries steal the show, against a musty backdrop of lemon, barnyard, sweatsocks. A tiny touch of sweetness from the fruit remains, some light bitterness from the acidity, and even some detectable hops left in there. Somewhat dry finish. My favorite part is when I’m done with the sipping, and I just gulp some down to quench the thirst.

Bottled, ages ago. How did this one slip through the net?? Rubber corked 375ml bottle back-to-back with Belle Vue Extra Kriek, just for the hell of it. Merlot Vs Rose. Impenetrably ruby pour. A beer that will not be agitated into a head from any height. Vinaigrette, red wine and brie rind aroma. Comfortably falls the sherbety, saliva-making side of sour. The faintest tickle of carbonation. More like a 10% glass of red wine than any beer I’ve encountered. The fruit that emerges is as much grape, cranberry, crab apple and satsuma as it is cherry. No concessions to the sweetshop market whatsoever. Tingling, deeply fruity and sharp. First Kriek I’ve tried that doesn’t have that perfumey cherrydrop sweetness. And I like it. Can’t touch the Oude Gueze, mind.....

On tap at the brewery it tasted too sweet to me. Iin the bottle it is more mellow, sour, and even pleasantly bitter from hop presence. Good kriek.