Strenge Winter
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Faro Special|
Score
7.71
|
|
Strenge Winter – previously known under a slightly different name – is a special brew and blend. On January 19th 2018, we brewed a full barley malt beer wort, with pilsner, amber and munich malt (but no raw wheat). Whilst on the coolship, we added brown candi sugar. We left this beer to age for over two years on both barrels and small foeders. Prior to bottling, we blended the beer with some young 3 Fonteinen lambic and added a tad more candi sugar. This beer is brewed to Armand’s original recipe! (but #notlambic)
Sign up to add a tick or review
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2022
at 20:49
8.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared. Clear amber to mahogany, small beige head. Quite some funk, oak, caramel, indeed some candi sugar but it’s more citrussy and mineral than sweet. Lots of cellar funk, leathery too. Medium sweet and a bit more sour. Also some not-lambic bitterness. Over medium bodied. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2022
at 19:47
8.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
No head but off-white rim over veiled copper-orange-ochre beer. Wood, lactic acid, lemon, farmyard, milkchocolate, swimming pool, spunk. Weird - but good. Dry lemony lambic, hints of caramel syrup, but no real sweetness. Old wet wood. Refreshing, if less than classical gueuze/lambic. Sharp acidburning, long dry finish. Great, if slightly less than Straffe Winter.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 12 Apr 2021
at 09:00
7.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Pours a warm amber. No real head. Scent is intense, malty, light funk. Taste is full, medium tart. Full on malty, like rye bread almost. A slight hint of smoke, almost. Amber malty, light Carbo. Bit sharp. Very nice, but not as good as straffe winter was.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2021
at 16:09
7/10
Hapu, puuviljane, sidrun, tamm, linnased, happeline suht, veits herbaalne, linnased. Hea.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2021
at 21:44
8/10
—
Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Semi-hazy ruby-brown pour with a thin off-white head. Tons of oak, grape vinegar, apple cider vinegar, bitter cherries, lambic funk. A really enjoyable beer, probably the first faro I actually like. A beautiful winter beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2021
at 19:17
7/10
Sweet and sour
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2021
at 18:00
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2021
at 16:01
7/10
Slodowo-dzikie, pozytywne zaskoczenie w sumie. Dosc ciezkie. Ale ryli fajniuchne
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2020
at 19:40