Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Microbrewery
in Lot,
Flemish Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated with 3 Venues
Established in 1953
Garrold (11335) reviewed Moonshine Got Me from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 1 week ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle picked up at 3F. Hazed deep pink. Slim white foam. Aroma has booze steeped cherry. Inevitably there’s vanilla. Taste is sweet and pudding like. Drinks abnormally easy. Fuck knows how this brewery puts this out something of this quality that I’m guessing goes against the grain. You do want you need to do.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle 104 / 728. Color: Clear golden, very thin white head. Aroma: Some tartness, subtle funky and wood, fruity grape. Taste: Fruity citrus and grape, moderate to over moderate tart, subtle rural funk, light hints of sweetish Port. Some oak wood and minerals. Dry-ish mouthfeel. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
When the first Zenne y Frontera was created by the late Armand Debelder and released in 2012 (still one of 3 Fonteinen's most coveted bottlings to this day), who could have guessed that it would spawn such a complicated, intricate tree of variants - this one coming from magnum bottles only, consisting of a major portion of oloroso barrel aged young lambic 'sparked' with added lambic before bottling... I am simply glad I could identify this particular variant here and will not bother comparing it with all those other ZyF shapes and forms, so let me just say this: big cheers to Martijn for generously sharing this impressive bottle during dinner time on Proevertjesdag! Snow white, thin and open, loose ring for a head (not much of a head expected anyway), misty warm peachy orange blonde robe. Aroma of dry oak wood and a lot of it, dry peanuts and peanut skin, green plum, very dry sherry indeed but not very strongly so, dandelion, green apple slices, dried mushroom somewhere, saddle soap, old cracked leather, bergamot oil, minerals. Crisp onset, green plum and gooseberry elements but not 'wildly' estery, very light fried mushroom umami touch, medium carb with full, rounded, supple body; bready core under the evident lactic tartness, dry and a bit astringent here, with this unripe stonefruitiness lingering about. The typical sherry nuttiness one finds in most of the ZyF variants remains rather subdued here; woody tannins are strongly present, adding to the general dryness, while a lemon rind bitter-sourness remains, along with hints of dandelion and Bretty old leather. Complex, streamlined, utterly well-crafted lambic of course - I was not expecting anything less than that - but somehow a bit less sherry-forward than I was expecting (and hoping).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Special version of 3 Fonteinen's Schaarbeekse Kriek, one of the great classics in that particular 'Schaarbeekse' subdivision of cherry lambics, matured in casks that were toasted like wine barrels - though sadly the label forgets to mention the degree of toasting (light, medium, medium-plus or heavy)... Vintage bottle (five years old) shared with the other participants at Proevertjesdag. Medium thick, 'dusty off-pink', moussey, opening and eventually dissolving head on a hazy to cloudy deep burgundy red robe with purplish wine red glow. Aroma of stewed sour cherries, cherry wine, stale sweat, kimchi, vanillin-exuding oak wood, cherry stones, red wine vinegar, damp earth, almond, fermenting beetroot, crabapple, unripe red plum, vague caramelly toasty accent - really subtle but absent in the regular version. Tart, full-on fruity onset, a thick pulp of sour cherries with 'side effects' of green apple, rhubarb and unripe plum, juicy and full, a tad vinous in mouthfeel, medium carbonated; fruity lactic acidity joining the huge sour fruitiness of the cherries, over a bready core. Astringent effects in the finish (tannic wood plus cherry stones and skins) mitigated by the sheer fleshiness of the cherries, deep and 'moist', with their tartness lingering on in a colourful way. Rich, full and fleshy as expected, but apart from that subtle toasty effect in the nose which I think most will find hard to pick out, there is not that much difference with a regular 3 Fonteinen Schaarbeekse of the same age, I think - only a side by side tasting would be able to clarify that, I guess.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
750ml @ Brian's shared with Ryan and Phill.
Aroma: a lot of funk and minerals, grape must.
Taste: along the same lines, low to moderately acidic.
Overall: a bit aggressive (as many other 3F fruited stuff), but, nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 750mL bottle (Season 22/23 Blend No 71). Hazy brown-ish red with almost no white head. Vinous merlot grapes with a smooth balsamic tartness with subtle funk. Enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
EB - Bottle 750ml. corked @ DØE Meeting - Fox and Hounds, 🇩🇰 Nørregade 26, 7500 Holstebro, Denmark. 🇩🇰 👨💻🍺 🍂🍁 ☁️☂️ [ 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston (season 22|23) Blend No. 15 ]. ABV: 6.5%. [20251125]. 8-/4/9/4-/18-.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
EB - Bottle 750ml. corked @ DØE Meeting - Fox and Hounds, 🇩🇰 Nørregade 26, 7500 Holstebro, Denmark. 🇩🇰 👨💻🍺 🍂🍁 ☁️☂️ [ 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek Bio (season 23|24) Blend No. 42 ]. ABV: 6.8%. [20251125]. 8/4/9/4/18.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
EB - Bottle 750ml. corked @ DØE Meeting - Fox and Hounds, 🇩🇰 Nørregade 26, 7500 Holstebro, Denmark. 🇩🇰 👨💻🍺 🍂🍁 ☁️☂️ [ 3 Fonteinen Druif Gewurztraminer (season 22|23) Blend No. 35 ]. ABV: 7.8%. [20251125]. 9/4/9/4/19.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
EB - Bottle 750ml. corked @ DØE Meeting - Fox and Hounds, 🇩🇰 Nørregade 26, 7500 Holstebro, Denmark. 🇩🇰 👨💻🍺 🍂🍁 ☁️☂️ [ 3 Fonteinen Druif/Kriek Dornfelder (season 21|22) Blend No. 28 ]. ABV: 6.7%. [20251125]. 8/4/9/4/18.
