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.