Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
OK, my tastebuds have evolved over the past 9 months: A hazy orange beer with a huge collapsing head. The aroma is sour, with notes of wood and grapefruit. And the flavor is lovely sour with notes of grapefruit. ----------------- An unclear orange beer with a fine but fast disappearing head. The aroma is sour and metallic. The flavor is a sour geueze flavor. A good geueze but not great. Too sour for my tastebuds. = 5/3/5/3/11
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival] A beutiful red beer with a fast disappearing pink head. The aroma is sweet with strong cherry notes. The flavor is sour with light cherry notes - a nice flavor but not fantastic. A good kriek - but I've had them better.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Oude Geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
4.4.2002 vintage. Lactic acid with a sweet citric and perfumed note in the background. Low creamy head, nice cloudy amber, light pearling carbonation. Very dry with a medium tartness. Quickly fading flowery aftertaste. Extremely pleasant to drink.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Oude Kriek from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(indeterminate age) Quite clear red with amber shine. Pink foam speckled with little brown pinspots. Nose of cherries, wet wood, autumn shrubbery, coal gas, sulphur. Very sour immediate taste, vying with vague lactic, woody, apple, preserved-jam notes. Very tart, harsh finish with lemonjuice on the lips. Acid burn and refreshing. Long, tart, bone-dry aftertaste. I like it. A lot. But I can imagine people being more conservatively disposed towards their upper digestive tracts might not really appreciate this. This is for the diehards.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Beersel Blond from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Gushing to thick, irregular creamy head. Dull orange with greenish shine, cold haze. Very malty, quite some caramel, grain and faint hops. Slight bitterish on top of very sweet base, as from malt syrup or extract. Sugar too. Wheat is undetectable. Quite chewy mouthfeel, on the edge of sticky. Not much aftertaste. Dull. Even brewed at the Proefbrouwerij, I'd wish they'd stick to their lambic. Oh well, it's for the restaurant.
caesar (10848) reviewed Oude Geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Haxy yellow color. Sparkling at the tongue. Tart aroma, oaky. Quite typical gueuze taste also, but not acidic or sharp. Full flavors, very good balanced. Long lingering palate. This is a very good gueuze.
omhper (44752) reviewed Oude Geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled. Hazy golden colour. Acidic lemony aroma. Clean maltiness. Firm, drinkable and refreshing with balanced acidity. Perhaps less complex than Girardin and Cantillon, but still a great beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
I classify this entry here, so as not to complicate matters. However, "Frambozenlambiek" is usually the vatted version on draught, whilst my bottle (called "3 Fonteinen Framboos/Framboise") is the refermented product. It is produced only once every x years, and much sought after, so a lot of beerbars and festivals have it on offer. Slight gushing to enormous orange-pink head. Yet the fruit-acids don't give it a chance. Beer is an inimitable pinkish-amber, even cyclamen colour, just beautiful. Nose is RASPBERRY², backed by whiffs of lactic acid, redcurrant and horseblanket. Tart, dry fruittaste. Raspberries plucked just before real ripeness and packed in old wooden crates, fired with eau-de-vie de framboise. Explosion of natural fruitacids, fruitesters and -aroma's. A harvester-horsefarm at the edge of civilisation. However did they get hold of fresh vanilla-beans? Dry, tanninerich, adstringent mouthfeel. And great. Long fruitish, sour aftertaste - and yet it somehow conveys an impression of fruitsugars... "Nothing compares to you," Sinead O'Connor sang. Wonder how she got hold of 3 Fonteinen framboos????
omhper (44752) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottled. The bottle is unlabelled, according to Akkurat this is because it is still noy officially sold. It pours dark clear red with almost no carbonation, probably because it is still really young. Acidic aroma of fresh black cherries. Very vinous, even more so thanks to the low carbonation. Firm and clean. The finish is full of citric acid and a light touch of fruity bitterness.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Oude Geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Hazy yellow with Chablislike shine. Very thick, very stable head for a gueuze. Nose gives 'horseblanket', leathery - leather soap, old wood, sulphur, malonate, lactic acid, tarragon. Quite sour taste, very outspoken sour green apples. There IS some sweetness, virtually covered by the acids. Lemony finish. Very sparkling, as mineral water. Very good REAL gueuze - it's average... compared to the Millenium.