Oude Geuze Golden Blend
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen

 

 

 

 

 

Peach color. Classic wild funk at the nose with a little mineral; taste very robust, citrus, maybe aged cheese, complexity beyond what I can describe. Very heavy carb. Aways a treat opening a lambic!

 

Bottle date 12/3/2014. Drank 12/25/2022.

Awesome.

Pours a hazy golden, not in an IPA way, but a regular beer way. Frothy looking head. Fresh cut apples, some meyer Lemon on the nose. Sweet, champagne-like cider notes up front that is confronted by some sharp acidity. It is, overall, the right amount of acidity with the acidity presented in a very nice way. This is really nice, as advertised.

L -- Golden amber body with a slight haze and a half finger of sudsy white head produced with aerated pour. Some retention and minimal lacing. Looks less cider-like than a lot of lambic
S -- Green apple candy, barnyard funk, dried floral, hint of herbal hop. Just super rustic and lambic-y
T -- Has that rustic, barnyard, funk-forward lambic thing going on again, but with a nice dose of lemon candy and oak
O -- Essentially a more refined version of 3F's standard gueuze

85/100

Look – A light amber color, with a nice head.

Smell – A pleasant tart smell with barnyard funk, oak, hay, and a light hint of vinegar.

Taste – Has a nicely dry tart flavor, very similar to the smell. Pleasant, but seems somewhat plain.

Feel – Nice carbonation, with a bit of tartness.

Overall – A very nice gueuze. One of the best I've tried, though that may not be my style.

 

 

 

 

 

A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°52, season 16/17, bottled on 11th October 2017. Served from a 3 Fonteinen lambic basket, and poured into a 3 Fonteinen gueuze glass.

Appearance: A nice clear golden colour with a one finger white head that had decent retention while leaving some nice lacing.

Aroma: Earthy, oak, rhubarb, light funk, musty, damp wood, hay, apricot, green apple, pear, with sherbet like lemon notes.

Taste: Light to moderately sour, oak, lemon peel, unripe apricot, apple skin, with light funk and notes of hay.

Mouthfeel: Dry, medium bodied with moderate carbonation.

Overall: Excellent, balanced, complex flavours and really enjoyable to drink.

 

Fantastic Lambic.

 

First beer of 2022! Poured from a bottle (11Feb2020 - no 37 - 19|20) into a geuze glass

L: pours a turbid, darker orange yellow with a moderate, crackling white head. Moderate visible carbonation feeding the minimal head. Think I stirred the lees moving the bottle from the fridge, my bad. Second glass, while still turbid, is notably less so - more of a brighter, golden yellow. Some chunky lacing left with each sip

S: that classic, seductive 3F geuze nose. Pleasant bit of barnyard funk to open, with some bright fruit notes quickly behind. Slight cheese, assertively but appropriately acidic - on the fruit front, granny smith apple, bit of lemon flesh, some white peach. Some chardonnay grape as well. Great mix of bright fruit and complex, earthy funk

T: great swallow, delivers a nice mix of fruit and sour with bright acidity. Slight pucker at first with notes of green apple, bright and pronounced citrus. That lemon flesh character from the nose comes through well here, pleasantly sharp and leads into the medium-long finish. That more cheesy barnyard funk is more toward the finish, leaves this great lingering note with a rustic baked bread flavor as well. Flavor dances nicely in that unique way, really nice

F: medium- body, medium+ carbonation. Nicely drying, that bit of tart that suggests a nice sip

O: wonderful and tasty geuze. Bright acidity and pleasant, complex funk; solid fruit character, big fan

Bottled 11/2/20 750ml
Consumed 12/30/21

So excited to finally try this bottle that I got in a trade from Belgium. We're finally seeing a bit more 3 Fonteinen in Chicago with them dropping Intense Red and Homage in mass recently. It's a very pretty lambic. A medium hued peach in color with nice carbonation and lacing that stays around. I don't get as much off the nose as I would like while it's cold but the flavors jump out more on the tongue thankfully. As it warmed the lambic funk started to come through. There's so much happening flavor wise here. Tartness is medium to medium high. I wish there were a bit more funk but it's present. It recognizable as a 3 Fonteinen beer immediately to me. The feel is superb with the carbonation and dry finish. Overall I don't know if it's my favorite 3F, but it's up there. Worth picking up a 2nd one if you can get 2.

 

 

 

#77, good stuff!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

375 ml corked and caged green bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 6%. The cork pops out as son as the "cage" wire is opened. The glass fills completely with white foam, and the slightly hazy golden beer appears slowly underneath. INTENSE and lovely aroma of farmhouse kitchen, white wine vinegar and oxidised cider apples. Smaken er intenst sur og snerpende, med preg av sitron og brettanomyces, og en merkbar bitterhet i avslutningen.