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.