Straffe Winter
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Faro Special|
Score
7.70
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A one-off brew with a variety of malts to get to a higher density after boiling. Candied sugar was also added during the brewing process. Except for the low wheat percentage, the process of this beer followed the traditional lambic tradition.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is very oxidized with lots of sherry character. Light funk and acidity. The cord on this was warped and slid right out with almost no friction. Pours a copper reddish color with a faint, forced head. Flavor has moderate acidity with hints of citrus and quite a bit of sweetness. Some red apple and tons of sherry notes. Faint funk, but it’s really not super present. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with no carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a bad beer; well, a bad bottle. Both of the previous bottles I have opened have been way better. The cork in this one looks like it was pushed out and then resettled. So much oxidation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2017
at 01:14
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Carbonation is gone from this bottle. Brown color. A little sugar and some yeast. Rather than a faro, it is like a we’ll balanced Belgian ale. Even though the palate suffers, it still Has good flavo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2017
at 21:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Shared by Andy. No head, brown. So, guess it’s a good faro. Not to sweet and I guess there is Lambic. I like the Lambic but the sweetness is still weird. Sugar sour.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2016
at 22:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at DHVL. Hazy amber brown with a bubbly light tan head. Aroma is oxidized with big sherry notes, toffee, tart fruits and a light funk. Flavour is moderate sweet and sour, with very citric acidity in the finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
at
De Heeren van Liedekercke
on 05 Mar 2016
at 03:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sample at the Heren van Liedekercke courtesy of Kermis. Vintage 2010 Thin white head. Cloudy amber pour. Tart sugary oxidised aftertaste.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2016
at 14:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
(750ml 2008 bottle @ Delirium Cafe, July 27th 2015) Pours fairly clear iced tea colour with a small head of big bubbles and no lace. Aroma is like a hybrid of Flanders bruin and barley wine, sweet and tart with lots of dried fruit, especially prunes and figs and sweet grapes, fortified wine notes (moscatel or tawny port) give a vinous feel, fairly oxidized, oak and a slightly sulphurous funk in the background. On the palate, not nearly as sweet, with a big component of acetic acid for a lambic. Oxidized, moderately funky, crabapple and golden raisins, hints of caramel. Funk towards the finish, some sulphur, hint of mint, oaky. Light bodied with carb almost all gone. I think this had got a little past it (and perhaps not the best venue for handling...), nose promised more but the oxidation had got to the palate. Still quite interesting, would have been even better in slightly nicer condition.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2015
at 13:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Rick, pours a cloudy orange with small off white head. Aroma is bandaids,feet, and funk. Medium mouth with tart fruit and light funk, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2015
at 12:18
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
2008, 750 c&c from Bu11zeye. Pours hazy darkish brown with no head. Aroma is essentially elderly malt with spice notes. Med body. Flavor is woody, dark malt with slightly sourish fruits. Finishes a bit tart. It’s great.
Tried
on 20 Oct 2014
at 13:37
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Specialty lambic from the winter of 2010 - 2011. Bottled faro is a weird concept to me which I usually associate with oversweetened, blended beers like Lindemans Faro, but when 3 Fonteinen does it, I put all my trust in it. Justly so, it turned out. The lambic used for this contains not only unmalted wheat and pale malts, but malted wheat, Munich malt and amber malt as well, very unusual for the style. What makes this a special faro instead of a special geuze, is of course the addition of candi sugar. Thin but stable head, warm orangey amber colour, misty. Complex, powerful aroma of lively fruity esters as in any good lambic, mandarin, fresh grape juice, sherry, hay, wood, lemon, cider, apple peel, caramel, candi sugar, toasted bread. Complex taste with a whole array of flavours the ardent lambic lover adores, including lactic acid, fresh citric acid, wine vinegar, sherry, wood, as well as an honest candi sugar sweetishness in the finish, a tea-like aspect and a long, dry finish of tannins, funkiness and tartness. Absolutely lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2014
at 12:28