Oude Geuze Vintage
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Special|
Score
8.39
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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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8/10
Hapu, kuiv, väga puidune, tsitrus, veits äädikat, mõnus mahedus. Hea.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2022
at 18:40
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle. Deep massive cheesy funk, wood, hay, wheat, peach. Dank funk galore with nice fruits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2022
at 14:36
9/10
Yes!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2022
at 17:41
8.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Fairly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of big dry cellar funk, oak, citrus. Flavour is moderate sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2021
at 16:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
2005 vintage bottle. Super funky nose, all kind of crazy vegetables like onions and mushrooms. Flavor is a crazy sour mixture with some lambic-y fruit notes, weird cellary flavors. Maybe a bit past its prime but still quite interesting. 7/4/7/3/16 Previously had 2005, now the 2002: reddish brown, small head. Funky mushroom hotpot nose, not as intense/overpowering as many sours. Excellent condition. Flavor is a crazy mixture: rubbery notes, onion, mushroom, quite dry sour notes. 7/4/6/3/16
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2021
at 21:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
2005. Hazy amber. Aroma is baguette leather horse blanket sour berries orange peel. Taste is sour fresh orange with some bitter dry woody juice. Very dry. Phew 2002. I guess I wouldnt write much different. Pretty well balanced. Nice.
Tried
on 22 Oct 2021
at 21:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Surprisingly towering head, very dense & fine, light yellow over foxy orange clear beer. Sharp fruity & farmyard nose, lactic acid, lemon, horseblanket, little bit of putteke , saddlesoap. Quite sharp - acid flavour, again fruity - unripe grapes f.i. - straw, wood, horseblanket. Finish has something fleeting as anise. The chunk in the armour of this one is a very lean body, not only because of acidthinning, but also from the composition of the beer itself; whilst the flavours diminish rapidly, and not I mals /I of course. Good carbonation. Maybe not the best of 3F, which still makes it just great.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 12 Sep 2021
at 15:12
10/10
Caramel apple tartness. Carbonation dissipates quickly
Tried
from Bottle
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 06 Sep 2021
at 22:27
8/10
Sour and tart, some stone fruit, a bit of citrus. Basement funk, some oakiness. Super smooth, excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2021
at 12:01
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Bottle, 375 ml 2008 Vintage at Lambikodroom. Shared with Hrvoje and Tin. Super funky, cellar, some fruit,barnyard, lots of barrel. Medium sourness. Liked the 2012 better, but this is still great. 10/4/9/5/19 Bottle,
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen & lambik-O-droom
on 03 Sep 2021
at 22:00