Pours very dark purplered. Small whitepink head. Scent is full, cherry, heavy, almost schaarbeekse like - loads of pleasant aroma's. Taste is full, intense tart cherries, very aromatic ( again, more like schaarbeekse ! ) . Cider is very hidden, amps up the fruityness, giving a mild appletart bite to the balanced palate of sours. Very pleasant beer. Lower side of carbonation, making it easely drinkable.

Another of these unorthodox Boerenerf lambics, combining sour cherry lambic (containing two cherry varieties) with cider (containing three apple varieties) in what is essentially - for now - lambic 3 Fonteinen. From a 37.5 cl bottle with cork and muselet, thanks again to tderoeck. Opens with a 'plop' and some gun smoke, but no gushing. Thick and frothy, regularly shaped, off-pink, very dense and tiny-bubbled, very slowly breaking head on an initially clear, deep ruby red beer with vaguely mauve tinge, turning hazy with sediment. Aroma of lots of ripe sour cherries, cherry juice and cherry wine, but indeed also considerable green apple (or dry cider), over subtler impressions of cooked plum, yoghurt, almond, white bread pulp, ripe pear, dry red wine, straw bales, dusty old oak furniture, a heap of damp hay, freshly cut red apple, vague sweaty Brett funkiness, damp autumn leaf touch, hint of swimming pool as is often the case in 'oude kriek'. Crisp, tart onset, a truckload of sour cherry fruitiness, with dominating sour cherry juice - sour indeed, but also very fleshy, adding side notes of red apple and even blue grape, with an almost sweet, juicy core; the cider clearly plays the second violin here, but a green apple astringency and acidity does pierce through. Full, rounded middle, a bready core completely buried under thick sour cherry juiciness with again that dry cider astringency piercing through, mingling with lactic acid in the very core of the beer as well as teaming up with both wooden barrel and cherry stone tannins, constructing a rather astringent finish - but then the sheer fleshiness of the fruit saves the day and offers ample balance to absorb this astringency. It even creates a certain vinosity, while most of the sourness seems to come from the fruit; yet I do recognize the tart, crisp, 'dried seed'-like aspect of the 3 Fonteinen lambic with which this creation was made. Vinous, tart, tannic ending, with again that cherry fleshiness providing some softness to these astringent factors - yet in a diminishing way, so that everything does end very dry. An interesting flavour 'parcours', I do not recall having had any combinations of cherry lambic and dry cider before, but I guess this concoction follows 3 Fonteinen's new idea that sour cherries can be used as a supporting structure for other flavours. However, as unconvinced I was with their own mixture of sour cherry and rhubarb last week, I remain a bit unconvinced here too: the cider is there, it is noticeable throughout, but it never steps to the foreground as much as I was expecting it to (and apparently the eminent rater preceding me experienced otherwise, possibly because he had it in younger condition than me), leaving us with a very rich, juicy sour cherry lambic more than anything else. Which is perfectly fine for me - so enjoy your high score regardless.

Super intense cherry with a solid funk

Great balanced tart cherry flavor

Definitely a more mild lambic. Not super tart, well balanced, easy to drink.

2020 harvest, lovely aroma of cherries, taste of sweet and mild sour cherries, some wood, subtle and balances, nice stuff..

Small pink rim, deep red beer. Intense sour cherry aroma, overwhelming and satisfying as it just breathes the right thing. Sour cherries, the Schaarbeekse variety as intense as possible. In other words, the kriek d' antan as kriek ought to be. There is a underlying sweetness as from home-made cherry pie without sugar. Very fruitslick and fruit-filled. Medium carbonation. God knows how many cherries went it. This is a blast from the past, reminding me of the 3 Bronnen kriek from Beersel.