Like most of 3 Fonteinen’s newer lambics, this rhubarb one too was born from a few experiments in the vast Twists of Fate pool; this is the final version, sampled at Brasserie de la Sambre’s saison festival. Off-white, moussy, opening head on a hazy orange-tinged peach blonde beer with beige edges. Aroma of indeed lots of both stewed and raw rhubarb, dry old wood, unripe apricot, peach kernel, ripe pear, dried lemon peel, wet leather, cooked sour apples and a sulfuric note piercing through. Crisp onset with lots of rhubarb flavour, including oxalic acid, only increasing the crispness; sour apple and gooseberry esteriness blends in with the rhubarb, with even a very vague ripe stonefruit-like sweetness hidden deep within (associating with the cooked rather than raw rhubarb aspect). Fizzy effervescence, full and vinous body, lots of lactic, lemony and oxalic sourness over a soft bready malt core, complex esters and tannins gathering in the finish where this refreshingly tart rhubarb flavour lingers, alongside impressions of lemon and sour peaches. Ends dry and gently but clearly woody, but most of all ‘rhubarb-forwardly’ juicy. Excellent interpretation of this growing theme. Note to the admins: my rating actually concerns blend n° 94, but I put it here because I did not want to create a completely new entry for something which is as good as identical...