Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.3%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°48, Season 17/18. Number of bottles – 2431

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 8th version features the maceration of Schaarbeekse cherries on charred/toasted barrels. These noblest of sour cherries have been sourced in the gardens of and hand-picked by more than 50 families around Brussels. This Schaarbeekse On A Toast has macerated for 266 days (over 8.5 months) on a fresh 1,000 liter medium toasted French oak barrel… and we added the same proportion of organic raspberries from the Ferme Framboos. After the maceration, the fruit lambic was blended with young lambic for a continued fermentation in the bottle. The total fruit intensity is 278 grams of fruit per liter of bottled fruit lambic. 100% 3 Fonteinen lambic.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.19
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°48, season 17/18, bottled on 5th April 2018. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A lightly hazy strawberry red, with a very thin white head that disappeared almost immediately, while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Cherry, raspberry, slightly jammy, dusty, wood, straw, funk.
Taste: Sour, tart, cherry, cherry pits, raspberry, lemon zest, wood, with a touch of vinegar.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft to no carbonation.
Overall: Good cherry and raspberry notes, but I do prefer more carbonation, and it was a bit lacking here.