Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.1%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°73, Season 18/19. Number of bottles – 726

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 55% strawberries to 45% sour cherries, while the final intensity is 624 grams of fruit per liter of finished fruit lambic. Additional maceration took another 6.5 months.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.35
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°73, season 18/19, bottled on 13th May 2019. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A slightly hazy strawberry red colour, with a one finger pinkish beige head that had pretty good retention and eventually settled to a nice replenishing cap, while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Strawberry, jammy, cherry, wood, lemon zest, with funky notes.
Taste: As you’d expect from the aroma, lightly sour, strawberry, jammy, cherry, wood, lemon zest, and funk.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Lots of fruit with good jammy strawberry and cherries, especially in the aroma. Enjoyable!