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 (45152) 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 (15519) 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.
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 (15519) 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 (15519) 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 (15519) 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 (45152) 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 (28383) 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.