7

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Cask at the source. Almahéjas, citrusos, gabonasan edeskes, foldes-cserzettboros, alig karbonalt, surun jelzosszerkezetes.

8

Interesting! Not sweet at all really, I guess the wort just takes the edge of the tartness. Big fan of this.

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap at 3F, 8th November 23. Pours a cloudy orange, white bubbly head. Aroma is tart fruits. Taste is tart, with a hint of sweetness, musty, fun, flat. Interesting

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

[2/17/23] On tap at 3 Fonteinen in Beersel. Cloudy orange. funk, wort, fruitiness, sour-sweetish.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at 3 Fonteinen lambik-o-droom, pours an opaque dark orange with a medium white head. Aroma brings out lots of wort, candi sugar and gentle leather. Flavour is earthy and gently sugary, with light leather, earthiness, and candi sugar. Only gently sweet, with an earthy finish. Good stuff.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from hand pull tap. Hazed gold with white head. Very soft funk, feint lemon and bread notes. Start to the 3F day.

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

20cl shared with Ryan and Phill. A slow pour. Appearance: hazy pale copper with a huge white head. Aroma: a tad funky with some sweet and malty notes, a bit raw. Taste: same, some 3F minerally notes. Overall: pretty good.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at Lambik-O-Droom, Lot, Belgium. Pours murky golden orange with a decent white cap. Aroma: sweet, bread crust, apple, earthy. Taste: moderate sweet, tangy, bready grains, bruised apple, some citrus, candy sugar. Medium body with low/no carbonation

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Handpump. Hazy orange color with soapy white head. Aroma is candy sugar, mild funk, milky-ish yeast. Taste is the same. Nice oiliness and smoothness, flat. Solid!

7.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

At given times, 3 Fonteinen still makes faro for consumption ‘in situ’ (i.e. at their Lambik-O-Droom), trying to keep this ancient tradition alive in a time where – contrary to, say, two centuries ago – very few people still know what a traditional faro is. There are two variants, a bit confusingly called “classic” versus “traditional”; I had the classic, actually simply old lambic sweetened with sugar water, many years ago at the 3 Fonteinen restaurant in Beersel, long before the Lambik-O-Droom even existed, so now I got lucky to taste the traditional version, made with young lambic sweetened with reduced wort (instead of actual sugar as was or is usually the case). Thanks David (or Goodfella86 as he is known on this site)! Frothy, pillowy, cobweb-lacing, egg-white head on a misty bronze-brownish-tinged amber beer with olive-greenish edges. Aroma of old tea bags, bergamot tea even, lightly toasted unsalted peanuts, freshly ironed cotton cloth, old pipe tobacco, dried apricot, hard to even burnt caramel, old hazelnuts, dried basil, very old dry sherry – in short, a typical (very) old lambic purity and maturity pimped with fresh malt (or indeed wort) odours. Soft sourness in the mouth, clearly tempered by the reduced wort, dried apricot and sour plum impressions, flat carb (none expected anyway), rounded and slick body; malty middle phase, nut bread and old toast with caramelly touch, ongoing ‘deep’ and noble tartness, leathery funkiness and drying woodiness – all ‘sauced’ with a strong herbal, old tea-like effect. Very easily drinkable but also very recognizably old lambic with all its oxidized, sedate character, but with a reviving ‘infuse’ of wort – an unusual interpretation of faro as mostly young lambic (or even ‘meerts’) was used as a basis, but feeling very traditional at the same time. Glad I had the chance to taste this one.