Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at RBG Low Countries 2005 Tasting Session and one at Heeren van Liedekercke (thanks to Mike (mds) for sharing that one!)
Fizzy, off-white head. Orange body. Nose of horse blanket, leather, herbs, orange, apple. Heavily acidic, moderately bitter initial flavour. Modertately acidic, lightly bitter finish. Very lovely and well-balanced flavour. Lightly bodied and lively carbonation. Drinks very easily. Somewhat more bitter than the blue one, but still a well balanced beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled (vintage 2000). Hazy peach colour, big foamy head. Spices and sour apple in aroma. Sour apple, grapes and spices in flavour. Very dry finish. Extremely pleasant. Wellbalanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled, vintage 2000
Hazy peach colour, not much head. Sour, lambic nose. Very carbonated, fruity, you really can taste grapes here. Sour, fruity aftertaste. Balanced, fruity lambic.
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Oude Geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Bottle, St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Hazy orange colour. Sour, lemon, really lovely flavour, really intense and superb. Didn?t like lambics and gueuzes to start with but hey, your palate gets educated after a while. Re rate gbbf 2016 Bottle on the Friday with Ken. Gorgeous
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Beersel Lager from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught Head gone in secs, but leaving transparant rim and layers of textbook lace, unbelievably; pale gold beer with (cold?) haze. Very hoppy-grapey nose, biscuity background. Extremely hoppy taste, "Belgian" hops, meaning rather metallic. Honeyish flavour, quite fruity for a lager. One can taste the Krausening. Not light at all, quite some MF, and a serious hopbite. Great Pilsener. Makes me really regret never having taste Victory’s Prima Pils - cause I wonder if these jokers managed to make the essential American Pilsener, instead of the original Czech. Great try, I want more of this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(75 cl bottle 5% ABV) Red colour, no head. Juicy cherry aroma. Very little carbonation. Clean, sourish cherry flavour. Cherry stone bitter finish. Well balanced.
Sigmund (14673) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, at Plan B, Copenhagen. Beautiful red colour, pink head. Delightful cherry aroma. Sour cherry flavour on a funky background. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, RBESG 2005 Grand Tasting. Hazy pale brown colour. Funky aroma, notes of horseblanket and sour fruits. Flavour is typical geuze sour, not too much, fruity. Very nice.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled @RBESG’05
Pale yellow, creamy white head. Sour, slightly earthy nose. Good, not at all bone-dry gueuze. Refreshing, almost a thirst quencher! Long sour aftertaste.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
2004 bottle shared with Eyedrinkale on 8/5/2005. Thanks so much for the bottle Jacob, this kicked ass!
Pours the most lovely of cherry reds, with some strawberry-yellowish notes on the edges. Resembles a ripening sour cherry quite nicely, with the yellow to orange to red colors. Mountains of head rise up and is well-retained. Foamy and pinkish-white, with plenty of lacing as it recedes. Needless to say, it is unfiltered. The aroma promises good things to come, with a delicious light acid and tart cherry juice combination, backed by hints of dry vanilla and cask wood. The cherries are rich, yet dry and tart. And then the flavor. . .Oh good lord, this is something else!! As much as I appreciate and love Cantillon kriek, I think this one just took over my number one spot for favorite fruit lambic. An easy 10 for flavor, for me, as it is just perfectly balanced between pure, fresh, real tart cherries, dry and puckering, and a wonderful light malt that adds the perfect amount of balance, in sort of a honey and vanilla creme sort of way. The tartness is strong, but not quite as puckering as an old Cantillon kriek. Granted, these are very different beers, so it’s not really right to compare them. But wow, such fresh, boisterous cherry flavors with light funky-cheesy barnyard flavors. I really like the use of these young, sour cherries versus a more black/sweeter cherry. Such an exquisite balance between sweet and tart, sour and drinkable. If I had access to more of these bottles, I fear I wouldnt be drinking much else as a session beer.
This is one lambic I’m glad I have drank young, I couldnt bare to see any of this magnificent cherry flavor recede with age. Wow, cheers to Mr. Debelder. If the 3F Framboos is better than this then god help me when I try that one. So this is why Joris likes 3F so much. . . .
2003 bottle at GABF party. A darker, more tannic and almost sweeter smelling beer. Funkier and with more cherry pulp smell and less bright, tart cherry juice. The flavor was significantly less bright and tart than the 2004 bottle. I mistook it for just the plain kriek version. Still a wonderful beer, and I don’t imagine there to be any significant difference in quality, I just think this beer is best drunk as young as possible to capture the boisterous, tart, fresh cherry acids.
2005 bottle The odd things about this one is that it, when fresh was EXTREMELY tart, pungent, sour, acidic. I daresay, almost too much so? Just a bit overdone, I guess and without the dainty, delicate brightness of the 2004 batch. So, hoping that it would meld in to what the 2004 became after a year (near-perfect), I tried it again on 8/27/06 thanks to Tiggmtl. Wow. Almost slightly chalky, very weak sourness. The fruit has really gone South. Seems like a lot of the wheat smoothness shows through. No real flaws, just WAY too reserved. Just sort of there, unfortunately. Hopefully that was just an off bottle. Will try it again soon, no doubt. 8/5/7/4/15