| Description: | Kreik Lambic • 7.3% ABV • Lot, Vlaanderen
Blend n° 29 • bottling date: 20/01/2020 • bottle count: 490
Next to supporting and growing a local community of
Schaarbeekse Kriek tree owners, we would also like to
have a one-on-one relation with a (organic) farmer of other
sour cherries for our regular Oude Kriek. In that search, we
came across the Kelleris sub-variety with Wijndomein
Hoenshof. Mid-summer of 2019, we harvested 300 kilos
and macerated them with 300 litres of young lambik on an
ex-Bordeaux barrel. The maceration took a good six
months before we bottled them straight from the barrel (so
we did not blend in additional lambik). As a result, there is
quite a high final fruit intensity: 857 grams of sour cherries
per litre of Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen. Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
“Speling van het Lot” (Twist of Fate) is a series of small
batch experimental brews, barrel maturations, fruit
macerations and blends. This 16th version features a range
of iterations on sour cherries – but not Schaarbeekse, a
fruit that rhymes very well with traditional lambic. It
probably is the very first type of fruit ever that was used for
maceration on lambik - a little bit over 100 years ago.
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