Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. This unlabelled 75cl bottle is not exactly what I drink any day, so it was poured with great care. Dark yellow and hazy with rich lively head. Tart, barnyardy aroma. Citric and acidic with clean malt profile. Dry and lightly grassy with bitterish finish.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kriekenlambik from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
For all clarity, this is the unblended, unsweetened version, also available on draught at the restaurant. Deep-deep burgundy, with bright red "éclat", no head. Nose of cherries, cherries, ch.. and vanilla. Taste like an explosion of freshly pressed fruit(juice). Then some wood, and an estery, alcoholic difference with real fruitjuice. Very woody finish. Tart, like some sour cherries (=krieken), plucked from the tree. Chewy. In the palate there is still some woodiness, but it suddenly disappears. Nearing perfection. One cannot get enough of this. Unlike one's stomach lining...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Actually, this grapebeer has been brewed on special commission for a Californian vintner. He also indicated the grapes, Malvasia Red, a rare original Italian kind, put on 100% Drie Fonteinen-made lambic. Thanks to special contacts at the brewery, I managed this sneak-preview. Colour is pinkish, like water with some dissolved blood, flunky, rather thick white-pink head, fast disappearing. Nose of “horseblanket”, fruity, sulphur, green apples, redcurrant. Taste has a sharp start, some fruit sweetness (bound to disappear with maturing) and a lot of acidity. In the taste, the fruit is either grape – or gooseberry. Very delicate ! Mouthfeel is very refreshing, with a beautiful subdued fruit taste lasting. Bl***y marvellous. And it all goes to California!!
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Oude Lambik from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(1 year, draught) Colour: brown-amber, slightly hazy. No head. Nose: wood, vineous. Taste is rather sweet (brown-candi), background is sourish, lactic, not acetic. Dry-out effect outspoken, even adstringent finish. Long dry, woody aftertaste. Surprisingly sweet for an already 1-year aged lambic.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Millennium Geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Millenium geuze, a joint project from Geuzestekerij Drie Fonteinen and Lambicblender De Cam, was a prestige one-off for the Millenium. It is sold out, but in the diverse best beerbars of Belgium it is still readily available - and probably now at its best. Hence I took one from my cellar. Colour is golden-straw with slight orangey shine. Slight gushing to thick, but collapsing yellowish head. "Horseblanket" wafting, freshly baked bread, wet wood, slightly sulpur and citrus in the nose. Taste: diverse organic acids: malonate, lactic, carbonic, even citric (!)- but no traceable acetic - yet very subdued, "mals" is the term. Flavours of leather, leathergrease, citrus, pineapple and freshly-mown grass; organic sulphur compounds. Very little tannins for a real gueuze, very refreshing. Aftertaste gives a bit of leather again, carbonation keeps tingling at tonguesides for a surprisingly long time. Truly a gueuze for THE Millenium.
omhper (44752) reviewed Beersel Blond from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Golden coloured with loads of small yeast sediment particles floating around and a brief creamy head. Vanilla and berries in the nose. Medium bodied, smooth and honeyish with caramel flavour. The sweetness grows towards the finish.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Beersel Blond from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 23 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Rerate.
Hazy golden color; giant thick head; beautiful lace. Very nice nose of malt and noble wood. Pretty tart taste; malt warmth; full mouth.
A solid beer, pretty original, suitable for any meal (meat, fish, chese...). Interesting.
Definitively, the previous time I had a bad bottle...
[2002-08-10, 4-3-3-2-7] Dry nose, with something unpleasant, medicinal. Pretty sweet start and drier finish, but in the taste there's something wrong, like a veggie soup. Strange experience.
omhper (44752) reviewed Oude Kriek from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This ratingis for the bottled version. Bright cherry red, very lively. Acidic nose with loads of raspberry and sweet cherry aroma. Though acidic the flavour is dominated by sweet cherries. Sourish finish finish with a hint of crystalized sugar. Very good, but there are more complex krieks. (Mind you, this beer is definitely not sweet, even if there are some sweetish flavour hints.)
omhper (44752) reviewed Framboos (Framboise) from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear red. Dry with fruity raspberry flavour. .............................
Oakes (33493) reviewed Oude Geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 24 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Cantillon is the beer lover's gueuze; Girardin is the gueuze lover's gueuze; Hanssens in the thinking man's gueuze; Cuvee Rene is a really screwed-up gueuze; but Drie Fonteinen is the session gueuze. Yes, it's expensive in the US and quite strong, but the combination of hardcore, funky, sour gueuze with smooth maltiness and hint of sweetness in the finish makes this the most emminently quaffable of the oude gueuzes.