Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen

Microbrewery in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1953

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Molenstraat 47, Lot, 1651, Belgium
Description
Traditional lambik brewery and authentic geuze blendery. More than 135 years of artisan, passion and quality. Stubborn and pure. Living heritage straight out of the Zenne Valley!

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

Orange, somewhat hazy, colour. Rich, lively head. Earthy barnyard aroma. Acidic flavour of unripe apples and redcurrants.

Tried on 10 Dec 2003 at 11:53


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Yellow with orange shine; 7cm white head, irregular and quite stable. Very orangey nose; faint tobacco, spicey (coriander,...) Sharp orange-zest taste, obvious acidity, wheat-like, perfumed. A little bitterness and no excess sweetness. Rather sharp mouthfeel (carbonation, acids, alcohol). Well-bodied, finish is creamier. Not bad at all, but balance and mouthfeel could be bettered towards less abrupt transitions.

Tried on 18 Nov 2003 at 13:47


8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Dark cloudy red color, short pink head. Aroma is old gueuze, oak wood and light cherry. Taste is again oaky, tart, not very fruity, cherry hardly noticeable. Tart palate, but not very tart, quite soft even. It could be more fruity, but a good thing was that the palate was not jaw-breaking sour.

Tried on 17 Nov 2003 at 06:43


9.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10

Ultra-superb indescribable deep red colour; good dense pink head. There is also an ultra-flunky deposit at the end. Concentrated cherry aroma, full as nothing else but the bursting of a fresh, ripe sour cherry in one's teeth. Superb-tart taste, concentrated full-cherry flavour, neither sweet, neither outspoken acidity. There is a lambic underbuild, but is definitely subjugated to the all-conquering fruit flavours. All the above doesn't prevent it from a quite vicious acid-burn. Full fruity mouthfeel. Armand wanted this to be a flash from the past - and that's what it is. Now that real Schaarbeekse (in fact, virtually wild) krieken are getting rare and not commercially available anymore, he proved that if one really wants, one can make true tradition alive once more.

Tried from Can on 10 Nov 2003 at 14:43


6.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Golden-blond colour, quite treble. Small white head. Alcoholic flavour: citruslike. This flavour I never tasted before. It tastes like tabaco or something like that. Let's just call it Sweet-sour citrus flavour. Surprising beer.

Tried on 09 Nov 2003 at 17:27


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Blond golden colour, fuzzy. Sweet honey aroma. Bitter sweet and spicy flavour.

Tried on 02 Nov 2003 at 16:34


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Blond treble colour, white head. Alcoholic spicy aroma. Interesting sweet-spicy flavours.

Tried on 19 Oct 2003 at 16:25


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

The aroma is sweet with slight notes of cherries. The color is a clear red-brown and it has a light red fine but collapsing head. The flavor is of sour cherries with strong notes of wood and a underlying sourness, that brings out the saliva. An OK kriek, that places itself between the sweet ones and the sour ones.

Tried on 15 Oct 2003 at 18:04


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

The aroma is rather sour with notes of wood and metal. The color is a slightly hazy orange and it has a beutiful lasting white head. The flavor is a goor sour one with strong notes of lemon, and milder notes of wood and grapegfruit. A really good geuze.

Tried on 15 Oct 2003 at 17:58


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cloudy orange beige color, medium head. Aroma is sweet spicy, cinnamon i think. Taste is sweet, toffee, spicy sharp. Sharp palate. Very weird brew.

Tried on 14 Oct 2003 at 12:16