Bottled 20/04/2016. Funky, tart and complex with some mild sourness, farmyard and mild yeastiness. Pretty nicely aged and tasty

22|23 Edition Huge, towering, lightly yellowish head over orange-golden beer. Dry, horseblanket lambic nose with crabapples, straw, and some aldehyde-like sidenote. Sulphur. Straw, horseblanket, green apples, appleester and appleskins; further fruity resins, lactic acid. Bit tarry, faintly smoked in the finish. Ultra dry. Very well-carbonated and wheatslick. Acidity held in check! Excellent gueuze. 3 Fonteinen + De Cam, can't go wrong, I suppose. Txs to Stef!

Tart, funky with loads of raspberry juice, hints of stingy sourness, jammy berries and farmyardy notes. Still in surprisingly good condition

Flaska från 3 Fonteinen. Disig gyllengul vätska med lågt skum. Doft av stall, strö, syrliga äpplen, citrus, persika och aprikos och mjuk vinäger. Välbalanserad och lättdrucken, stor kropp och lite högre sötma. Mycket gott

One of now many 3 Fonteinen 'Twists of Fate' that made it into an 'official' beer, the one with yellow peach, the forerunners of which I recall were met with great enthusiasm during a tasting at Lambik-o-Droom many a moon ago. Sampled from a corked 37.5 cl bottle labelled as "BIO" (organic) but I assume that is the same thing so until it becomes more clear how the relations between the 3 Fonteinen yellow peach lambics are structured, I will park my rating here. Rated partially on the bus back from the old brewery in Beersel - accessible to participants of the "Aged and Amazed" event exceptionally - and the Lambik-o-Droom in Lot... Snow white, thinnish, irregular, open ring of foam on a misty deep yolk-yellow robe with pale orangey tinge, completely hazy with sediment. Aroma of ripe yellow peach (as hoped - and, frankly, expected), raw pineapple, peach skin, lemon, oak, green gooseberry, crabapple, sweat, damp hay, 'urine' (Brett), green plum. Tart onset, lemony but nowhere too puckering, utterly juicy with this juice effect amplified by the sweetish touch of the ripe yellow peaches, shining as brightly as they should in this 'new' subgenre of fruit lambic; the sides remain however sharp and tart, the middle yoghurty, through a cereally 'soil' and woody tannins - but everything remains directed to this wonderful play of peachy sweetness and estery-lambicy sourness. Ends with drying woody tannins (and tannins from the peach skins and kernels no doubt), but juiciness, brightness and sheer 'sunniness' remain key here - as it ought to be in a peach lambic in spring. This is pure nature in your glass, as merry and radiant as it could ever be - an effect I find in all 'artisanally made' peach, nectarine and apricot lambics for that matter... I remember one from De Cam too impressing me on a wonderful spring day, that was so beautiful and convincing as well - prompting me to declare this subsegment of fruit lambic, ironically only existing in 'industrial' pêche form in previous decades until Cantillon's Fou'Foune came along, my personal style of spring beer. This particular one could perhaps do with a tad more ripe stonefruit sugariness, who knows, but its acidity does keep it sharp and edgy while never losing the full aromatic effect of the yellow peach... Whatever the case, this one was absolutely stunning and I hope to encounter it again for a revisit.

Blend of five different sherry barrel aged lambics, of the oloroso and amontillado types - the umpteenth variant on Zenne y Frontera, one of 3 Fonteinen's globally renowned series and indeed one that has spawned many a masterpiece of sometimes mindblowing beauty - a trend hard to compete with I suppose, even if you are competing with yourself. At Lambik-o-Droom. Snow white, irregular, bubbly, medium sized, opening head on an initially clear, deep, warm orange blonde robe with amberish tinge, hazy further on. Aroma of lots of old wood, very dry sherry (indeed old oloroso), dry straw, apricot kernels, old orange peel, green plum, also young (white) wood, dried lingonberries, sour grape. Very dry onset, estery in a dry and sour way, tart small grapes, orange pith - minerally carbonated with vinous mouthfeel, over a dry-cereally core smoothened by strong woodiness from those old sherry casks. Lingering green apple, persimmon and unripe plum notes, old lemon zest too but the sourness remains 'mals' and subordinate to the sherry and wood effects, making for a mile long, bone dry and layered finish. Dried fruits linger, 'deep' oxidation effects from the sherry linger, tannins from the wood linger, vinosity lingers - and the memory lingers far beyond all that. I had many a ZYF variant, some truly blew my away - I remember the second batch even doing that more than the first batch, but that is another story - and this may well be one of those absolute top editions, though it admittedly had time to mature, which I suspect makes a big difference. Only one lesson can be drawn from this: if you are sitting on ZYF bottles, no matter which batch(es), be patient. It pays off.