Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston

Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston

 

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular
Score
8.23
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 570
3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston is a blend of one-, two-, and three-year old traditional lambics, all brewed at Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen. Spontaneous fermentation, patient maturation in oak barrels, and continued evolution in the bottle result in a distinctively complex beer. No two bottlings are alike, as there are multiple variables in the blending process, a variety of barrel sizes and shapes, differences in aged lambic proportions, etc. This cuvée, like all of our lambic, is 100% natural, authentic, spontaneously fermented, and crafted with steadfast adherence to tradition, like Armand and Gaston Debelder have always done it. This geuze has fermented in the bottle and will continue to develop its tastes and aromas over its long life when properly cellared. Traditional Lambic is living, cultural heritage rooted in the Zenne valley! Taste, savour, enjoy, and experience this unfiltered, unpasteurised, and unadulterated beer with friends new and old!
 

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

MBCC. Hazy orange with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, barnyard, leather and wood. Flavor is medium sweet and rather acidic. Dry and rather acidic finish. 100524

Tried on 10 May 2024 at 13:56


8

Funky, sourish and slightly farmyardy with some tartness and earthiness. Dry and earthy

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2024 at 01:11


9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Magnum shared. Amazing!

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jan 2024 at 15:10


9.1
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Magnum, (season 18 - 19) Blend No. 49 - cloudy orange with medium white head. Hoppy, fruity, barnyard, funk, some citrus. Nice blend.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2023 at 23:00


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

37.5cl bottle, season 18/19 - Pours a hazy gold colour with a small frothy white head that settled. The aroma is tart fruit, green apples, lemon, barnyard funk and oak. A crisp, tart sour taste, green apples, white grape, lemon, citrus, oak and funk with a drying, fruity sour finish.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2023 at 12:07


8

Almost clear, amber color and a white head. Mmmhhh nice: tart, acidic, fruity-lemony & lime, decent spicy. Dryish finish.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2023 at 22:11


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours darker blonde, small white head. Scent is very mushroomy, oak. Very funky . Lovely ! Taste is funky, tart, dry, oaky, mild mushroomy, pretty amazing, one of the better A&G blends !

Tried on 22 Dec 2023 at 19:07


7

Apricots, sourish, acidic, juicy, fruity

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2023 at 19:50


8

Funky, farmyardy and sour with some tart fruits, earthiness and stingy lambicy notes.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Dec 2023 at 19:50


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Special version of Cuvée Armand & Gaston, 3 Fonteinen’s excellent homage to Armand Debelder’s father who started it all back in the fifties; distinguished by the specific selection of lambics and, more particularly, the fact that two of those spent time in oloroso sherry barrels, something 3 Fonteinen loves to work with because sherry and lambic share certain characteristics (and needless to say, the Zenne y Frontera story amply demonstrates how beautifully sherry and lambic can be combined in various ways). One of apparently only 418 bottles made – magnum bottles, mind you, at Lambik-O-Droom. Egg-white, moussy, eventually breaking and opening head on a hazy ochre-ish tinged apricot blonde robe. Aroma of lots of old wood and old dry (indeed oloroso) sherry, green walnut (or indeed typical sherry nuttiness but less outspoken than in most of the Zenne y Frontera series), peach kernels, dry leather, dusty old book shelves, unripe apricot, wooden attic, Parmigiano cheese rind, sherry vinegar touch. Crisp, tart onset, unripe plum, dried lemon peel, medium carbonation with supple, full body; very dry from the start, bread-crusty core under strongly drying lactic acidity and astringent woody tannins, with leathery Brett draped over it all. Old dry sherry comes back in the finish, along with its typical nuttiness, but not as dominantly so as in most of the Zenne y Fronteras (though equally dominant as in the least sherry-forward of those). Dry finish with lots of old wood and a certain ‘dustiness’ – this geuze feels as if it has been bottle many years ago, with a dusty, woody, ‘old’ and bone dry character. Quite distinct indeed and one I would love to revisit.

Tried on 03 Nov 2023 at 13:28