Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular|
Score
8.23
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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
Funky, sourish and slightly farmyardy with some tartness and earthiness. Dry and earthy
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Magnum shared. Amazing!
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.
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.
Almost clear, amber color and a white head. Mmmhhh nice: tart, acidic, fruity-lemony & lime, decent spicy. Dryish finish.
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 !
Apricots, sourish, acidic, juicy, fruity
Funky, farmyardy and sour with some tart fruits, earthiness and stingy lambicy notes.
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.