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3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XVIII.iv: Single Wood Kastanje

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.8%
Style: Lambic – Gueuze
Other Notes: Blend°112, Season 21/22. Number of bottles – 486

Brewer Description: (from bottle) This series of eight Spelingen van het Lot feature the ageing of the same lambikken on different wooden barrels. The lambikken come off two different brews, fully crafted with cereals sourced from our cereal collective and fully organic. The different wood types used are: American oak, German oak, acacia, the combination of German oak and acacia, chestnut, ash, cherry and mulberry. This bottle features the chestnut wood and was handbottled on 486 bottles.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.28
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle at 3 Fonteinen lambik-O-droom, blend°112, season 21/22, bottled on 8th September 2022. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A clear golden orange colour, with a one finger white head, that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Tart, yellow stone fruit, funk, wet wood, wet leather, apricot, and lemon zest.
Taste: Sour, tart, lemon, unripe mandarin orange, gooseberry, leather, wood, funk, with peppery notes.
Mouthfeel: Smooth, medium bodied, with soft carbonation.
Overall: Drinks nicely and was enjoyable. The series is interesting, but I didn’t have the opportunity to compare and try the others aged on different wooden barrels.

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3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XI.xi: Kriek/Mirabelle

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6.2%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°14, Season 22/23. Number of bottles – 737

Brewer Description: (from bottle) This Kriek/Mirabelle is a co-maceration of sour cherries and Mirabelle plums on a small oak barrel. We let the fruit sit for over three months on two-year old lambik. The fruit blend was later blended with another two-year old lambik before bottling. The weighted average of the blend hits almost 22 months upon bottling. The final fruit intensity is 509 grams of sour cherries and plums per litre.

My rating: 4-
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.04
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°14, season 22/23, bottled on 7th December 2022. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A very nice ruby red colour with a one finger pinkish head that dissipated quickly, and left some nice but sparse lacing.
Aroma: Lightly tart, cherries, grape skin, plum, and lemon zesty notes.
Taste: Sour, tart, acidic, cherries, plum, lemon juice, with berry gummy candy sweet notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Nice cherry and plum fruitiness, but the sourness and acidity felt a touch too high and not as balanced as it could be. Some berry gummy candy sweet notes here and there helped a bit, and especially appeared as it warmed, but doesn’t balance it entirely.

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3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XVI.iv: Rabarber + Kriek

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°8, Season 20/21. Number of bottles – 875

Brewer Description: (from bottle) For this Speling van het Lot, we blended a rhubarb lambik with a sour cherry lambik in a 43-57 cut. Maceration periods amounted up to five and ten months respectively. The combined final fruit intensity is 523 grams of fruit per litre of finished Rabarber + Kriek. The rhubarb was sourced with a local Hallenaar (inhabitant of Halle) and with De Groentelaar, an organic farm and member of our cereal circle of Pajot and Brabant farmers. We bottled this blend without adding any additional lambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.46
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°8, season 20/21, bottled on 5th January 2021. Bottle number 730 of 875. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A lightly hazy ruby red colour, with a half finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly, while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Cherry, berry yoghurt, whipped cream, oak, with notes of apple peel, and light earthy rhubarb.
Taste: Lightly sour, tart, cherry, cream, vanilla, oak, with a splash of rhubarb and citrusy lemon zest.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: Very nice aroma and flavours. While the rhubarb was there, cherry clearly dominated, and did no wrong as it was very enjoyable.

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3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot XIV: Wilder

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Brewery: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
Country: Belgium
ABV: 5%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: Blend°81, Season 18/19. Number of bottles – 722

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 14th version is a bottled 18-month old lambik that further carbonated in the bottle (a mono blend so you will) that was brewed on December 20th 2017. During such “Longest Night”, we add and infuse different ingredients on the four different coolships in our brewhouse in Beersel. One of those additions were fresh pine tree branches and needles, sourced in the garden of the mansion at Ukkelse Steenweg 327. This villa was previously owned by an employee of the former Van Haelen lambic brewery nearby. Recently, it featured the pop-up restaurant of Chef Maarten Van Essche, called “Wilder At The Villa”. Maarten, currently running restaurant Magma in Mechelen (www.magma.be), came up with the idea, inspired by previous experiences in Nordic cuisine… The Wilder logo was designed by Viktor Hachmang.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.34
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, blend°81, season 18/19, bottled on 7th June 2019. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden orange colour with a one finger white head that had pretty good retention, while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Woody, piney, Christmas, herbal, earthy, red apple, orange zest, and a touch funky.
Taste: Sour, tart, woody, pine, lemonade, citrus peel, with herbal and funky notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: Enjoyable woody, piney, herbal and citrusy combination.

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3 Fonteinen Speling van het Lot IX.x: Aardbeiiteraties: Aardbei + Kriek – Blended & Alive

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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!