Speling van het Lot XIV.iv: Langste Nacht 2019 - Krieken op het Koelschip
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen

 

 

A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°47, season 20/21, bottled on 13th April 2021, bottle number 0902/1229. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.

Appearance: A hazy dark orange colour with a slight pinkish tinge, and a thin white head that dissipated fairly quickly to a ring around the glass, while leaving some lacing.

Aroma: Cherry skin, cherry, oak, lemon, sherry, musty, damp wood, funk.

Taste: Sour, tart, cherry skin, cherry, almond, oak, lemon zest, candied lemon, funk.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with light carbonation.

Overall: Nice and easy drinking, although the cherries are not as intense as the regular Kriek.

Burnt amber to pale salmon with a short khaki head that fizzles down to a fluidly bubbly collar fairly quickly.

Wonderfully spiced cherry pie meets a pleasantly peppery charred oak that helps make for a chewy yet bone dry finish.

This exhibits excellent balance of acidity and barrel.

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In August 2024, I almost wish I had saved this last bottle for myself, but it's much more pleasantly funky now--oaky, cheesy, and lightly walnutty--with a hint of lemon meringue pie.

the third of these we had in the same sitting, still not my favorite base lambic from these guys, but this presents a little more familiar, no spices or seeds or anything, classic cherry lambic profile, but less fruit intensity than their other kriek types i have had, this almost hits like second use fruit where the fruit has some tannins and some bacterial tang to contribute but much of the deepest fruit essence is spent, not sure thats what they did, but it seems possible anyway. i do get some sherry stave character that the spiced one had too, maybe a little more obvious without the spices, and great with the cherries, this seems more intensely fruity than that one. deeper pink color, still real cloudy and less refined looking, but this one does have a little bit of patchy white head on it. aroma and flavor are almost identical, woody and vinous tart lambic up front, the puckery cherries later, this time with cranberry and currant acidity to them, only smoothed a little by the oak, i get hints of cedar, vanilla, and rye malt too, lots going on and the fruit is but one of many notes. fuller feel on this one, wheaty and thick, on the dry side though, and the complexity ramps up as this warms. less fruit forward than anticipated, but the compatibility with the base beer is obvious. i have to confess i had higher hopes for all three of these from this round, knowing how good some of the others are and being in love with this brewery, especially considering the prices, but it was a cool learning experience and they were a lot of fun to drink side by side by side. most in our group liked this one best, to me it just made me miss their better cherry beers...

Pours a kinda orange-ish hue, it looks kinda like one of those translucent-ish haribos. I don't have a relative color wheel for this beer. No or minimal head retention. It's got some musty berry character. Some red grape as well. That's the nose. It is quite tart and mineral with some underlying cheesy funk. This isn't the most interesting or complex Drie Fonteinen beer I've ever had. It's not bad per se, but it's not the most exciting fruited lambic I've had from the Beersel operation.