Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage

Oude Geuze Vintage

 

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Lambic Style - Gueuze Special
Score
8.39
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 274
3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage is a blend of one-, two-, and three-year old lambics. Instead of releasing them after minimum 6 months of bottle conditioning, the vintage series have been cellared for at least three years up to even five years and longer before being released. For an Oude Geuze to become a Vintage, it features characteristics that are unique, sometimes surprising or outspoken. Spontaneous fermentation, patient maturation in oak barrels, and continued evolution of the ecosystem in the bottle result in a distinctively complex and elegant natural beer. No two bottlings are alike, as there are multiple variables in the blending process, a variety of barrel sizes and shapes, differences in aged lambic proportions in the blend, etc. When cellared properly, 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze can be aged for several decades. The aromas and flavours will evolve from notes of vibrant fresh citrus, zesty and grassy notes to a mellow, oaky, stone fruit bouquet as the lambic continues to develop with time. Lambic and Geuze are living, cultural heritage rooted in the Zenne valley! Taste, savour, enjoy and experience this bottle fermented, unfiltered, unpasteurised and unadulterated beer with friends new and old!
 

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Small if persistent white head over lively carbonated amberish golden beer. Sulphur, farmyard, horseblanket, yellow/green stonefruit, gooseberry, horsestable. Sharpish, lactic acid, again stonefruit, partly unripe. Again some sulphur, some vegetable as raw celeri. Lipsmacking acidity, acidburn, acidthinning, yet a certain roundness, slick, wheat. Severe but very good oude gueuze. Might mellow out with some more aging. Txs to Stef!

Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2026 at 13:42


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

375 ml. Bottle. A: pours a quite dark orange, head disappears almost immediately, clearly little carbonation. S: low vinegar, moldy orange, it’s funky but also bit dirty, signs of age and once more watery. T: pretty much flat with some interesting but dirty funk, lingering vinegar near flat and moldy orange. This is simply disappointing, I has been a while since I got this one, last time it was quite expensive but good now it’s just expensive and worse than many standard offerings. The brand recognition is still there but the beers rarely justify it.

Tried from Bottle from Gastro-Beer on 04 Nov 2025 at 15:45


8.4
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Lots of oak, Stonefruit and barnyard. Lively body, fairly tart. Nice depth. I sense this is coming around to its peak. Very dry funky tart finish

Tried on 04 Jun 2025 at 05:52


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle pour at MBCC 2025, red session. Pours murky orange with a white head. Must, horse blanket, old furniture on the nose. Flavour has musty old upholstery, mildew, great barnyard funk. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2025 at 11:37


7

MBCC 2025. Session #3.
Nice funk, minerals, and barnyard. Not much carbo. A lot of 3F minerals. Nice one.
8☆3☆8☆4☆16》39

Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2025 at 10:51


8

Ystad Tasting (25/11/2023) - tart sour orchard fruity with some notes do apricot and dried light fruit, funky and farmyard action, medium to high acidity and medium body, tangy tart into the close.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2025 at 06:08


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Аромат хороший, сразу весьма травянистый, очень много сена с цитрусами, немного как будто специй, типо шиповника. Цвет чуть более мутный чем обычно, пенки почти нету. Вкус хороший, сбалансированный, очень много цитрусов, прям кислинка от нее, сено и сново немного специй. Возможно намеки на крыжовник. Пил версию 2019 года. Немного перебор с цитрусами а так хорошо. Пил на улице из пластика как брит бомж.

Tried on 16 Feb 2025 at 23:34


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Аромат хороший, сразу весьма травянистый, очень много сена с цитрусами, немного как будто специй, типо шиповника. Цвет чуть более мутный чем обычно, пенки почти нету. Вкус хороший, сбалансированный, очень много цитрусов, прям кислинка от нее, сено и сново немного специй. Возможно намеки на крыжовник. Пил версию 2019 года. Немного перебор с цитрусами а так хорошо.

Tried on 07 Feb 2025 at 05:47


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Vintage 2016 thanks to ShivanDragon. Funky aroma with oak, fruits, some citrus, straw, malt. Moderate sour, bit dry, tart. Medium body. Not thát outspoken, wonderfully complex though.

Tried on 03 Feb 2025 at 14:30


8.8

Beautiful, bright funk. Fruity without being overwhelming. Lovely balance. Some definite foeder notes.tart dry complexity.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2024 at 01:10