Zenne y Frontera (Batch 1)
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Unblended Special|
Score
8.53
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 10
cloudy orange colour with a small white head; complex aroma of sourness, wood; complex, sour flavour with a long, medium sour finish. Amazing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Shared at Pre-Borefts Tasting 2019. Batch No 5. A hazy orange golden beer. Aroma of tart orange fruits, funk, grapes. Taste of mild sweet and tart orange fruits, funk, herbs, apricot.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy, orange-amber colored, small non lasting white head. Medium sweet, tart fruit, earthy, woody notes, sherry, bit vinous, medium+ sourness, funky barnyard, dry finish. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, oily.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750ml bottles @ 3 Fonteinen. Batch 3: Smooth, earthy and slightly tart with some sherry, oak, funky sourness and farmyardy notes. Quite complex. Batch 4: More acidic, tart and sour, with some sweetish notes too. Overall 3 and 5 were quite similar in the fresh barrel notes, while 4 and 6 are more lambicy and sour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Edwin Z. is drinking a 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera (season 17 - 18) Blend No. 50 by Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen at Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen & lambik-O-droom At the source, Soft, smooth, woody, cheese, barnyard, didn’t get the sherry, gentle sourness, quite nice. Funky..
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
Well, here is then, a new 3F legend, bottle bought from a private collector - for a crazy price, but I could not resist. Shared with Jan of Weerspannige Brouwers. Medium thick, moussy, densely packed, pale yellowish white, lightly lacing, very stable head over a misty peach blonde beer with light orange hue. Complex and extremely elegant bouquet of gooseberry, unripe melon, lime juice, fermenting hay, wet wood, dry sherry indeed but well integrated into the whole, cava, moldy lemon peel, slight vanilla (oak?), unripe pear, mandarin peel, yoghurt, stale sweat but subtly so, passion fruit. Rich estery onset full of gooseberry, redcurrant, unripe plum and passion fruit, tart with a sweetish edge somewhere, champagne-like carbonation just fit for the style; soft lemony acidity (’mals’) and sedate lactic sourishness dominate the whole and dry the palate but again in an extremely elegant, ’friendly’ and softish kind of way, over a backbone of bready barley and soapy, deeply sourish wheat. Mouthfeel is soft and creamy, more ’moelleux’ than usual for a geuze. Passion fruit and gooseberry tartness persist towards the finish, pairing up with a brief but well-placed earthy ’old’ hop bitterish touch and drying, noble woodiness, bearing a sherry accent which blends in perfectly with the natural oloroso-like features of the lambic; a genuine sherry flavor subtly lingers in the back of the mouth after swallowing while the soft lambic tartness persists. A very subtle vanilla-like sweetish accent pops up too distinguishing this from other geuzes, along with the subtle sherry accent. In all, however, this sherry factor is just a touch of colour, rather than a dominant flavor imposed on it - I can easily see how this got its reputation and raving scores here. This is among the most elegant, noble and ’aristocratic’ lambic beers I ever had the pleasure to taste, it really doesn’t get much better than this. What a masterpiece... I’m even inclined to purchase another bottle for the same price and keep it in the cellar for some years. The perfect geuze, perhaps?
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750 ml bottle, many thanks to Werckmeister for organising this! Once the beer breathes a few minutes, the aroma is unbelievable! Sherry, young cheese, juicy stone fruits, grapes, horse blanket, some curry, wood, some citrus. So rich and complex! Tastes beautiful, quite similar, while the sherry is a bit more subtle, more prominent funk. Medium, a bit oily mouthfeel, with a moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth, medium dry, a bit musty, wooden, fruity, with moderate sherry, green apple skin, citrus, some grapes, slight cheesy funk. Wow! As the beer was breathing a few minutes it was perfect, so rich and deep, with beautiful sherry and almost a bit juicy fruit notes. Especially the nose was simply amazing! As it warmed up, the funk took over and it became a smooth, more classic Geuze. Really outstanding, very complex stuff! Score: 10 / 4 / 9 / 4 / 18
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
0,75l bottle at home decanted for 30 mins. yellow rather hazy color, very small white head. smells wood, funk, earthy, cheesy, bit herbal, spices. very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes very wood forward, citric, grassy, earthy, spices, peppery, funky. finishes dry and medium sour with notes of wood, citrus, grass and earthy notes. very very nice one, super wood forward not that much geuze-character, very nice but, almost a bit too smooth. 8, 4, 8, 4, 17
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Todd. Orange/pink pour, flat. Fruity, sweet aroma, brandy. Taste brings tartness, grapes, hint of tomato.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
06/10/2018 - sampled from bottle on RBBSG 2018 Hazy dark yellow, no real head. Nose is grainy, bit lemon, sherry, wood. Taste is grains, bit apple, bit lemon, lots of oak and sherry in the end. I had the impression that the age was perfect at this point. the lambic and sherry tastes were nicely working together. Great one ans as for me uncomparable to anything else.