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3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera Season 18/19 Blend 94

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.8%
Style: Lambic – Gueuze
Other Notes: Blend°94, Season 18/19

Brewer Description: (from bottle) 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera is a unique creation of Armand Debelder and maître-sommelier Andy De Brouwer. This natural millésime beer is a blend of young traditional lambics that have aged on forty-year-and-older authentic Oloroso, Amontillado and/or Pedro Ximénez sherry casks. Zenne y Frontera is the perfect symbiosis of a few stubborn characters, a lot of wild ideas, a vast palette of aromas and two beautiful regions!

This Zenne y Frontera is a blend of ten different sherry barrels – nine Oloroso barrels and one Amontillado barrel. The Oloroso barrels were more than fourty years old. The lambics originate from five different brews and were all a good year old when filling the sherry barrels. Accordingly, the weighted average age upon bottling was a tad more than 24 months. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.12
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°94, season 18/19, bottled on 25th July 2019. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed Zenne glass.
Appearance: A very nice clear golden orange colour, with a one finger white head that had pretty good retention, while leaving some nice lacing.
Aroma: Funky, musty, citrusy, lemon zest, green apple, sherry, and some light nutty notes.
Taste: Lightly sour, lemon, lemon zest, minerals, a touch of funk, and very light nutty sherry notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft to no carbonation.
Overall: The citrus and minerality is quite strong and the funk and sherry is not as prominent as in the other blends.

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

3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera Season 18/19 Blend 92

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.5%
Style: Lambic – Gueuze
Other Notes: Blend°92, Season 18/19

Brewer Description: (from bottle) 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera is a unique creation of Armand Debelder and maître-sommelier Andy De Brouwer. This natural millésime beer is a blend of young traditional lambics that have aged on forty-year-and-older authentic Oloroso, Amontillado and/or Pedro Ximénez sherry casks. Zenne y Frontera is the perfect symbiosis of a few stubborn characters, a lot of wild ideas, a vast palette of aromas and two beautiful regions!

This Zenne y Frontera is a blend of eleven different sherry barrels – ten Oloroso barrels and one Amontillado barrel. The Oloroso barrels were more than fourty years old. The lambics originate from four different brews and were all a good year old when filling the sherry barrels. Accordingly, the weighted average age upon bottling was a tad more than 25 months. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.49
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°92, season 18/19, bottled on 24th July 2019. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen gueuze glass.
Appearance: A nice clear golden orange colour, with a one finger white head that had pretty good retention, eventually settling to a ring around the glass, while leaving some nice lacing.
Aroma: Funky, musty, oak, damp wood, vanilla, sherry, green apple, lemon zest.
Taste: Tart, lightly sour, sour unripe yellow stone fruit, green apple, lemon peel, funky, musty, wet wood, and nutty sherry notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: Enjoyable, easy drinking, with good balanced complexity.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Gueuzerie Tilquin, Lambic - Fruit

Tilquin Oude Pinot Noir À l’ancienne

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Brewery: Gueuzerie Tilquin
Country: Belgium
ABV: 8%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: 2017-2018

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Beer of spontaneous fermentation, the Old Pinot Noir Tilquin is made from the fermentation of 260g of pinot noir grapes by liter of lambic. Unfiltered and unpasteurized, this beer is refermented in the bottle.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.49
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, with a neck label of 2017-2018, and a best before date of 9th January 2028. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A lightly hazy golden colour with a slight pink tint, and a one finger white head that had decent retention, while eventually settling to a ring around the glass, and leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Tart, grape skin, mixed berries, lemon zest, lightly vinous, oak, and funky.
Taste: Tart, sour, grape skin, red wine vinous, redcurrant, oak, funk, and a splash of lemon zest.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Good balanced aroma and flavours. Nice complexity, very enjoyable, and easy to drink.

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

3 Fonteinen Pruim Opal

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.5%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°22, Season 22/23

Brewer Description: (from bottle) For this Pruim, we macerated Opal plums from De Kleinaart in Limburg – a small orchard with organic plums. Maceration happened on young lambik, and blended with three-year old lambik. The lambikken originated from two different barrels and five different brews. We macerated for almost six months, rendering the weighted average age to more than 22 months. The final fruit proportion is 477 grams of plums per litre of Pruim. Almost 60% of the cereals used while brewing, were sourced in our Cereal Collective. 100% 3 Fonteinen. Bottle count: 807

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.21
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°22, season 22/23, bottled on 5th January 2023. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A cloudy orangey pinkish colour, with a thin white head that dissipated quickly, while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Tart, plum, lemon zest, grapefruit rind, a touch of minerals, and some funky, plastic notes at the end.
Taste: Sour, tart, plum, lemon juice, lemon zest, honey, minerals, funk, and light notes of damp wood.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: Enjoyable with a good balance of plum and citrus.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Lambic - Fruit, Publitasting

Publitasting Druif-Rabarber Geuze

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Brewery: Publitasting
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.3%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Limited edition (102 liter) – 2023

Brewer Description: (from bottle in Dutch) Blend met 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 en 6 jaarse traditionele lambiek uit de Zenne vallei van Brouwerij Eylenbosh (Kobbegem), Brouwerij Sako (Pepingen), Brouwerij Den Herberg (Halle), en Brouwerij De Troch (Wambeek). Druif Boskoop Glory, Druif Vroege van der Laen en Rabarber.

(translated to English) A blend of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 year old traditional lambic from the Zenne valley, from Brouwerij Eylenbosh (Kobbegem), Brouwerij Sako (Pepingen), Brouwerij Den Herberg (Halle), and Brouwerij De Troch (Wambeek). Grape Boskoop Glory, grape Vroege van der Laen and rhubarb.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.27
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle, 2023 vintage, with a best before date of 31st December 2028. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A nice lightly hazy pinkish orange colour with a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly, eventually settling to a ring around the glass while leaving sparse lacing.
Aroma: Lightly tart, grape skin, mixed berries, lemon zest, rhubarb, with notes of leather and funk.
Taste: Tart, lightly sour, grape skin, mixed berry sweetness, lemon zest, rhubarb, green, light leather and a touch of funk.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: The barrel was muted, and just light funk, but there was good enjoyable fruitiness from the aroma and flavours of grape and rhubarb.