3 Fonteinen Hommage (Season 19|20) Blend No. 72 (37.5cl, 6.3%)

A Belgian fruit lambic from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, blending kriekenlambik and frambozenlambik in a forty-sixty kriek-to-framboos proportion. It contains 529 grams of whole fruit per litre, with hand-picked sour cherries and raspberries macerated on one- and two-year-old lambik from seven barrels and eleven brews. The weighted average maceration time reached five months, and the finished bottles were held for a full year in the brewery's warm room before release. It is unfiltered and unpasteurised. The aroma opens with intense ripe raspberry, followed by darker sour cherry and a faint barnyard funk, with a subtle vinous quality as it warms. The palate is fruit-forward, with raspberry leading before sour cherry at mid-palate, high acidity, tannic grip and dry, wine-like complexity. The finish is long and tart, with cherry skin astringency, raspberry echoes and a gentle mineral quality.