Oude Geuze (2000)
(Batch of Oude Geuze)
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.56
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A true Geuze. A blend of 1, 2, and 3 year-old lambic unfiltered and unpasteurized and aged in the bottle for at least 6 months after blending. Continued fermentation in the bottle give this Geuze its famous champagne-like spritziness. The lambic that goes into it is brewed only with 60% barley malt, 40% unmalted wheat, aged hops, and water, spontaneously fermented by wild yeasts, and matured in oak casks. 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze is a blend of one-, two-, and three-year old lambics. 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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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Drank 8-2-2020 , bottled 8-2-2000 . pretty psyched ! Pours unclear amber, medium white head. Smell is dusty; cellar, musty, oak, bit cheesy. Taste ois very intense, tart, oaky, milder 3f funk, mostly very oaky. More refined, but otherwise very reminding of an H.ertie geuze. Sill got a medium high carbo. Pretty cool to have tried it, but in all honesty, surpassed by the Armand En Gaston 2015 we had at the same tasting. Not over the top ( this might improve just a touch more, even ) but just not as great of a blend as some of the others I drank before were.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2020
at 01:15
9/10
gold, white head: mineral, funk, lemon, horse blanket. 4.6
Tried
on 03 Jun 2018
at 00:15