Zenne D'Hesbaye
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
7.19
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Zenne D'Hesbaye from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
New Zenne variation outside of the trusted – and highly praised – Zenne y Frontera series, in which sherry is integrated in the lambic; this one, however, integrates Belgian Owl, a whisky produced in a village near Liège (and one I have encountered in several other Belgian beers before, though never in a lambic). Sampled from a 75 cl bottle during its release event at Lambik-O-Droom last Saturday, cheers Bart A.! Off-white, medium thick, opening but otherwise largely stable head on a misty peach blonde robe with warm brownish-amberish glow. Aroma of pronounced vanillin-exuding oak wood (from both the lambic and the whisky), lemon rind, lime juice, sorrel, indeed (Speyside-like) whisky, dusty attic, goat cheese, wood glue, deep-fried parsley, dried lemon thyme, old leather, hay. Refreshingly tart onset, hints of lemon peel and lime juice, redcurrant and unripe nectarine, with cava-like effervescence and drying lactic acidity piercing through a bread-crusty core along with these lemony acids, fruity esters and – increasingly – very strong, vanilla-scenting, tannic oak wood (oak furniture effect), evolving into a warming, sweetish-rounded, whisky-flavoured alcohol glow, though nothing too outspoken or aggressive. Dried fruit effects, also linked to the Belgian Owl, linger about, while this lemony streak keeps everything sharp and edgy. The whisky is surely there, but feels well-integrated, offering more of its flavours (vanilla, dried fruit and wood) to the lambic than its alcohol, which, in spite of the relatively high ABV, remains firmly in the background. In that sense a sophisticated product, less whisky-forward than most Zenne y Fronteras are sherry-forward, so to speak, but with this special twist I found very agreeable.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Zenne D'Hesbaye from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 1 year ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
White bubbles, resistant over fully hazy, peach-ochre beer. Wood, faraway booze (whisky), cheese, farmyard, horseblanket. Sweet, obvious whisky, very modeste farmyard, but a bit burning backthroat. Sharp acidburning, acidthinning, good carbonation - the more as the sample is end of the bottle. More than interesting, looking forward to following exploration in the area of spiritbarreling. Txs to Gaëtan!