Blend n° 29 • seizoen 19|20

# of bottles: 490

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen “Speling van het Lot” (Twist of Fate) is a series of small batch experimental brews, barrel maturations, fruit macerations and blends. This 16th version features a range of iterations on sour cherries – but not Schaarbeekse, a fruit that rhymes very well with traditional lambic. It probably is the very first type of fruit ever that was used for maceration on lambic - a little bit over 100 years ago.

Over the last 5 years, we have increased our efforts to bring more variety in our fruit lambics and to structurally set up and develop relations with local fruit farmers, preferably Belgian and as close to our brewery as possibly. While it remains a big dream to have our regular Kriek made from 100% Schaarbeekse again – and working to make that dream a reality – our plain sour cherries still originate from Serbia. Meanwhile, we continue to search for other varieties, grown in Belgium. That is how last summer, thanks to the fine people at Hoenshof, we came across the Kelleris variety. After a maceration of more than 6 months, we bottled the kriekenlambik straight from the barrel to the bottle without any additional young lambic blended into it. Consequently, the final fruit intensity is 857 grams of sour cherries per liter of Kriekenlambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen.