Resonance - Blend 1
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Hill Farmstead BreweryLambic Style - Gueuze Series
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Score
7.86
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bottling date: 16/10/2019
In October 2019, Hill Farmstead’s Shaun Hill joined Michaël Blancquaert in the cellars of Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen to gather together threads of a celebratory assemblage, affirming friendships and perspectives for the art of blending. Brought to culmination through a deeply held sense of mutual admiration, shared respect, and the singular pursuit of an ideal; a living tribute to Armand Debelder, whose balanced, harmonious blends imbued upon Shaun a formative sense memory that has reverberated and inspired for the many years since their first meeting. Resonance.
In October 2019, Hill Farmstead’s Shaun Hill joined Michaël Blancquaert in the cellars of Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen to gather together threads of a celebratory assemblage, affirming friendships and perspectives for the art of blending. Brought to culmination through a deeply held sense of mutual admiration, shared respect, and the singular pursuit of an ideal; a living tribute to Armand Debelder, whose balanced, harmonious blends imbued upon Shaun a formative sense memory that has reverberated and inspired for the many years since their first meeting. Resonance.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A hazy golden beer with a white head. Aroma of sour white grapes, brett, wood, apples. Taste of sour apples, grapes, vinegar, brett.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 09:35
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle, blend 1. Hazy golden color with almost no head. Aroma is nutty, fruity, dash of rustic parmigiano. Taste is again super fruity, apricot, super balance. Low carbonation. Excellent!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:40
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
6oz pour at Sovereign. Introduces itself very nicely. Nice and lemony. Funk and leather, minerality. Leathery. Good neutral wood. Dry finish, long. Feels like heavy on 1 and 2 year but I don't mind it. Really lovely. 8 4 9 5 15
Tried
on 11 Oct 2024
at 12:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
That was one tough cork. Pours murky gold into a tumbler. Bubbly head hug rim. Apple, white grape, meadow and funk aromas. Soft with dark plum, apple and chardonay upfront turning to tart, lactic aspirin in the middle before the medium length yuzu and pomelo pith finish. Grows on you.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2024
at 21:16
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle pour at HF. Pours lightly hazed orange-gold with a bubbly, white head. Nose is musty wood, aged tangerine, earth, cobwebs. Light sweet flavour with a decent bit of woody dryness, musty funk, damp wood, a little grass. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation. Dry and woody to finish, modest acidity, a little earth, orange peel, grass. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2024
at 16:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
How: Bottle.
Where: MBCC 2024.
Appearance: Orange colour with a small white head.
Aroma: Funk, sour, fruit, yeast, tart.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Funk, sour, fruit, yeast, tart, acidic.
Where: MBCC 2024.
Appearance: Orange colour with a small white head.
Aroma: Funk, sour, fruit, yeast, tart.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Funk, sour, fruit, yeast, tart, acidic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2024
at 11:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Small white rim over deep golden beer, veiled. Very earthy nose, smell of the cork, bit diary, buttermilk, wheat, graindust. Short sharp flavour with lots of lactic acid, sour grapes, wheat. Acidburn and -thinning, not very carbonated (selection of many old lambics showing); long lasting flavours. Many thanks to Gaëtan!
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen & lambik-O-droom
on 16 Jun 2024
at 05:27
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
750mL bottle pour at Hill Farmstead, 5/24/24. Blend #1. Bright marigold. Clear. Small, white head to ring. Holy shit that's round. Mellow, soft, malty, with beautifully integrated, exquisitely developed Brett and lacto. Band aid, rubber, hint of sulfur. Just a glorious amount of complex Brett. Funk, leather, cheese rind, bit of lime skin. Close to everything I want in a lambic, perhaps just missing a bit more poopy funk. Per usual, disagree with everything PhillyBeer says.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2024
at 17:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours clear blonde. Small white head. Scent is full, creamy, fairly saison like even though it's 100% (Belgian, obviously) lambic. Taste is full, tart, dry, funky, woody. Again, so muhc more phenolic than any lambic I had before, it's like I could swear there's a part of (HF)Saison in this, but there simply isn't... Medium high acidity, sharp and lemony. Medium low carbo. Quite nice, bit sharper geuze.
Tried
on 10 May 2024
at 08:12
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
The result of Shaun Hill, brewer of the famed Hill Farmstead brewery in New England, visiting the Lambik-O-Droom in Lot, Belgium in October 2019 with the tenth anniversary of his brewery in mind; the result is a 3 Fonteinen geuze Hill helped assemble here in Belgium, a symbol of the years of mutual respect between both companies. Bottle sampled at 3 Fonteinen’s “Bespelingen van het Lot” event last weekend at the Lambik-O-Droom. Moussey, medium thick, snow white, opening head on an initially clear, warm old-golden robe with orangey glow and some disparate sparkling, turning more hazy and peachy further on. Aroma of dry wooden boards, old dry peach kernels, lightly toasted sunflower seeds, cracked leather, lemon juice, dry haystack, tamarillo leaf, jute bags, unripe apricot, hint of old cigarette shag, touch chlorine (Boon?). Crisp onset, quite dry and low in fruity esters in spite of green apple, tamarillo and persimmon hints, lemony sourness at the edges with medium carbonation (actually a tad on the soft side for a geuze); lean body, dry cereally and somewhat old cracker- and rusk-like core, very smooth with further drying lactic acidity but nowhere too harsh or acetic, even if lively and pungent. Strong tannic woodiness and dry-leathery Brett effects in the finish, lingering unripe stonefruit, green apple and lemon effects – all remaining dry and supple at the same time. Elegant, somewhat ‘slender’, dry and lemony geuze, with the typical core features of Boon, 3 Fonteinen and Lindemans lambic more or less recognisable and well in harmony with each other; in a metaphorical kind of way, the sheer elegance and smoothness of this particular geuze reminds of Hill Farmstead’s typical house style… Nice, crisp and distinct, glad I tasted this one - but some additional ageing could probably improve it further.
Tried
on 03 May 2024
at 23:39