Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 5.9%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°47, Season 18/19. Number of bottles – 939

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen “Speling van het Lot” (Twist of Fate) is a series of small batch experimental brews, barrel maturations, fruit macerations and/or blends. This 9th version features a range of strawberry maceration iterations aiming at balancing the intense fruitiness of strawberries with the subtleties of traditional lambic while minimising the unpleasant phenolic characteristics of the small pits. For this fruit lambic we barrel macerated sour cherries on a previous barrel macerated strawberry lambic (featured in the ToF IX.viii). The proportion is 70% strawberries to 30% sour cherries, while the final intensity is 462 grams of fruit per liter of finished fruit lambic. Additional maceration took another 4 months, and while blending, we primed with fresh wort instead of refined sugar.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.48
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°47, season 18/19, bottled on 1st March 2019. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A slightly hazy amber pinkish orange colour with a two finger white head that had pretty good retention and eventually settled to a nice replenishing cap, while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Zingy, strawberry jammy, strawberry seeds, light cherry, orange peel, wood, hay, funk.
Taste: Sour, tart, strawberry, yoghurt, lemon, cherry, wood, straw, funk.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: Enjoyable aroma and flavours. The strawberries really shine through which is rare in most beers that have tried incorporating strawberries.