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4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Lambic - Fruit

3 Fonteinen Druif Sylvaner (Harth+Harth)

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 8.1%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°42, Season 22/23. Number of bottles – 1315

Brewer Description: (from bottle) For this Druif, we macerated Sylvaner grapes from Harth+Harth, for more than four months on an oak barrel. We used two- and three-year lambikken only, rendering the weighted average age of this blend to more than 26 months. The final fruit intensity clocks at more than 584 grams of grapes per litre. Almost 80% of the cereals for the five brews were sourced with our local farmers.

A few years ago, we started working with the most progressive low-intervention winemakers around Europe. Harth+Harth is a family-owned Demeter-certified organic winery from Saulheim in the German wine region of Rheinhessen.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.25

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°42, season 22/23, bottled on 9th February 2023. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A very nice clear golden colour with a half finger white head that had pretty good retention, while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Grape must, grape skin, peach, crisp green apple, oak, with light funk.
Taste: Sour, tart, vinous, grape skin, grape pomace, apple, oak, musty, funk, and a splash of lime.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: Good aroma and flavours make it enjoyable and easy drinking.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Lambic - Fruit

3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XIV.iv: Langste Nacht 2019 Krieken Op Het Koelschip

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.8%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°47, Season 20/21. Number of bottles – 1229

Brewer Description: (from bottle) On the Longest Night of 2019 on December 21st – as we do every year – we experimented around the brewhouse and the coolship. Aside from the three blends featured in this Twist of Fate-series, that day we also put some sherry barrel staves directly on the coolship to macerate in the cooling lambik wort. We used that lambik in an Oude Geuze blend (season 20|21, blend n° 44). For this Speling van het Lot, we blended a lambik that was macerated with sour cherries on the coolship during that same Longest Night. The weighted average age of the blend upon bottling is about sixteen months. More than 20% of the cereals used was sourced in the Pajottenland. 100% 3 Fonteinen brewed lambik.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.13
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°47, season 20/21, bottled on 13th April 2021, bottle number 0902/1229. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy dark orange colour with a slight pinkish tinge, and a thin white head that dissipated fairly quickly to a ring around the glass, while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Cherry skin, cherry, oak, lemon, sherry, musty, damp wood, funk.
Taste: Sour, tart, cherry skin, cherry, almond, oak, lemon zest, candied lemon, funk.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Overall: Nice and easy drinking, although the cherries are not as intense as the regular Kriek.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Lambic - Fruit

3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XIV.ii: Langste Nacht 2019 Krieken En Kruiden Op Het Koelschip

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 5.5%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°45, Season 20/21. Number of bottles – 2331

Brewer Description: (from bottle) On the Longest Night of 2019 on December 21st – as we do every year – we experimented around the brewhouse and the coolship. Aside from the three blends featured in this Twist of Fate-series, that day we also put some sherry barrel staves directly on the coolship to macerate in the cooling lambik wort. We used that lambik in an Oude Geuze blend (season 20|21, blend n° 44). For this Speling van het Lot, we blended a lambik that was macerated with sour cherries and winter spices on the coolship during that same Longest Night. The weighted average age of the blend upon bottling is about sixteen months. 100% 3 Fonteinen brewed lambik.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.05
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°45, season 20/21, bottled on 13th April 2021, bottle number 0914/2331. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden dark orange colour with a thin white head that disappeared almost immediately while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Candied cherry, orange peel, herbal notes, and a touch of cinnamon.
Taste: Tart, lightly sour, cherry, orange, wood, cinnamon, herbal, cough medicinal notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: Light and refreshing. Aroma was ok, but not great. Luckily the taste did mostly make up for this. I do prefer carbonation in my beers more than not, but this seems to be the second beer in the Langste Nacht 2019 series with soft to no carbonation, that I felt worked well despite the lack of carbonation.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Lambic - Fruit

3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XIV.iii: Langste Nacht 2019 Karwijzaad Op Het Koelschip

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.2%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°46, Season 20/21. Number of bottles – 1537

Brewer Description: (from bottle) On the Longest Night of 2019 on December 21st – as we do every year – we experimented around the brewhouse and the coolship. Aside from the three blends featured in this Twist of Fate-series, that day we also put some sherry barrel staves directly on the coolship to macerate in the cooling lambik wort. We used that lambik in an Oude Geuze blend (season 20|21, blend n° 44). For this Speling van het Lot, we blended a lambik that was macerated with caraway seeds on the coolship during that same Longest Night. The weighted average age of the blend upon bottling is about twelve months. One quarter of the cereals used, was sourced around the Pajottenland. 100% 3 Fonteinen brewed lambik.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.26
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°46, season 20/21, bottled on 13th April 2021, bottle number 1087/1537. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden orange colour with a thin white head that dissipated quickly, while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Herbal, orange, orange peel, caraway, anise, wood, fennel, pine needles, funk.
Taste: Sour, tart, grapefruit, lemon peel, wood, funky, lightly herbal, with hints of caraway and anise.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: The aroma and flavours meshed well together, and the herbal elements were perhaps surprisingly right up my alley. I thought that the lack of carbonation would be an issue, but it actually worked well in this case.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Lambic - Fruit

3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot X.xi: Druif: Malvasia Bianca

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 7%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°25, Season 20/21. Number of bottles – 582

Brewer Description: (from bottle) For this iteration of Druif, we wanted to pick up the Malvasia thread again. The Malvasia grape family counts more than fifteen varieties, spread over Italy, Spain, Madeira etc. After Armand’s trial in 2003 with the Malvasia Nera, we found some Malvasia Bianca at Wijndomein Hoenshof. We macerated the must for five months on a young lambik and in an oak barrel (ex-Bordeaux). We used two-year old lambik for blending. About one quarter of the volume of lambikken is brewed with cereals from our farmer network. The final fruit intensity is 501 grams of Malvasia must per litre of Druif. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.95
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.7

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°25, season 20/21, bottled on 8th February 2021, bottle number 576/582. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A slightly hazy golden orange colour with a thin white head that disappeared almost immediately and left only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Tart, grape skin, yellow stone fruit, lemon zest, wood, and funk.
Taste: Lightly sour, tart, funky, grape skin, grape, yellow stone fruit, green apple, lemon zest, wood.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: The aroma and flavours were fine, but my preference is definitely to have some carbonation to help it along.