Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston
(has 69 batches)
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular|
Score
8.24
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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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7.8/10
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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
7/10
Apricots, sourish, acidic, juicy, fruity
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2023
at 19:50
8/10
Funky, farmyardy and sour with some tart fruits, earthiness and stingy lambicy notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2023
at 19:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Orangey amber coloured beer with a light frothy head. Dry aroma, and fruity sour flavours, with a longish finish. A nice sour beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2023
at 19:40
8.4/10
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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
8/10
Tried
on 14 Oct 2023
at 16:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Magnum bottle at the brewery. yellow cloudy color, small white head. smells oak, peppery, grassy, earthy. Nice smell, very oak forward. full body, soft carbonation. tastes oak, peppery, stone fruits, hay, nutty, tobacco. finishes lightly dry and lightly sour with notes of stone fruits, tobacco and peppery notes. Very good one, rather oak forward
8, 8, 8, 8, 8.5
8, 8, 8, 8, 8.5
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen & lambik-O-droom
on 31 Aug 2023
at 08:16
7/10
Hapukas, puuviljane, puidune, kuiv, tsitrus, happeline. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2023
at 21:37
8/10
Õunane, hapukas, väävel, nisune, tsitrus , mahe, vesine, nats happeline. Hea.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2023
at 23:23
8.4/10
Lovely musty funk. Classic A&G
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2023
at 19:03