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== Description ==
== Description ==
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3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek is a traditional kriek lambic released annually in several batches by the brewery. It is produced by macerating cherries, including the pits, in young lambic.  After bottling, it is stored in a warm room for at least four months to help with secondary fermentation in the bottle.<ref name=3-Fonteien-Oude-Kriek>http://www.3fonteinen.be/proef/oude-kriek.html - 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek</ref> Oude Kriek is released in 375 mL and 750 mL bottles and was previously labeled as 6% ABV, though older labels show that it was once listed at 5% ABV. Currently, the ABV varies from blend to blend. In 2021, a 1.5 L magnum bottling was released for the first time.


== History / Other Notes ==
== History / Other Notes ==
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The brewery has been bottling their Oude Kriek since at least the 1990s, with a variety of labels documented below.  After the Thermostat Incident, which essentially cooked over 80,000 bottles of lambic causing some of them to explode, an unspecified number of Oude Kriek bottles survived.  These were bottled on March 31, 2009, and became known as "Hot Cherry" bottles when they began to circulate in the beer community.  A special bottling of Oude Kriek called ''Oude Kriek Toast'' is listed here as a variant of the Oude Kriek and at the request of the brewery.


== Unsubstantiated Stories ==
==Label Log==
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<gallery>
File:Label3FKriekNeck.jpg|Old neck label for kriek
File:3F-Kriek-NeckRing-Inside-1.jpg|Back of kriek neck label
File:Label 3F Oude Kriek375Europe.jpg|European label, 37,5cl, pre-screen printing
File:Label3FOudeKriekShelton.jpg|U.S. label, pre-screen printing
File:Label_3Fonteinen_OudeKriek.jpg|U.S. label, pre-screen printing
File:3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek Toast Label.PNG|Oude Kriek Toast label
File:3F Oude Kriek Paper.png|New paper label, non-screen printed.
</gallery>


== Bottle Log ==
== Bottle Log ==
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| 03/07/2002|| 375ml|| Yellow Label|| Need Picture
| 12/17/1994||  || Neck ring label - 5% ABV||-
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| 01/30/1996||750 mL||Neck ring label - 5% ABV||[[File:3 Fonteinen Kriek 30 Jan 1996.jpg|frameless|30px]]
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| 12/06/1996||750 mL||Capped and corked, cream label||[[File:3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek 6 Dec 1996.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 03/27/1998||750 mL|| Cream label|| -
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| 03/12/1999||750 mL|| Cream label||[[File:3 Fonteinen Kriek 12 March 1999.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 03/14/1999||750 mL|| Cream label||[[File:3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek 14 March 1999.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 01/06/2002||375 mL|| Cream label|| -
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| 02/26/2005||750 mL|| Upside down Shelton label, Dutch date||-
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| 11/28/2006||750 mL|| 12.7oz U.S. label on 750 mL bottle, synthetic cork||[[File:28 Nov 2006 - Oude Kriek 750ml.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 12/19/2006||375 mL|| Paper label, synthetic cork||[[File:3F Oude Kriek 19 Dec 2006.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 12/14/2007||375 mL|| Paper label|| -
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| 03/31/2009||375 mL|| "Hot Cherry" bottles that survived thermostat incident||-
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| 04/01/2011||375 mL|| Paper label|| [[File:Apr_1_2011_-_Oude_Kriek_375.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 01/27/2012||375 mL||Paper label||[[File:3F Oude Kriek 27 Jan 2012.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 06/03/2013||375 mL||Paper label||[[File:3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek 6 Jun 2013.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 06/06/2013||375 mL|| Paper label|| -
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| 06/11/2013||375 mL|| Paper label|| -
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| 04/14/2014||375 mL|| Paper label|| [[File:Apr 14 2014 - Oude Kriek 375.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 05/22/2014||375 mL|| Paper label|| [[File:May_22_2014_-_Oude_Kriek_375.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 01/18/2015||375ml|| Paper label|| -
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| 01/19/2015||750 mL|| Paper label|| -
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| 01/29/2015||375 mL|| Paper label|| [[File:3F Kriek Jan 29 2015.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 07/14/2015||375 mL|| Paper label|| [[File:3F Kriek July 14 2015.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 02/06/2016||750 mL|| Paper label|| [[File:3F_-_Oude_Krief_-_Feb_6_2016_750ml.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 05/02/2016||375 mL|| Paper label|| -
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| 10/24/2016||750 mL||3rd blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed label||-
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| 11/02/2016||750 mL||Paper label||[[File:3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek Nov 2 2016 Paper Label.jpg|frameless|50px]]
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| 11/02/2016||750 mL||4th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle||-
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| 11/03/2016||750ml||5th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle||-
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| 04/20/2017||375 mL||31st blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle||-
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| 06/14/2017|| || 33rd blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for 6.5 months. 5.70% ABV||-
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| 09/05/2017||750 mL||44th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle. 1,240 bottles||-
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|09/05/2017|| 750 mL||45th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle. 1,266 bottles||-
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|12/15/2017||375ml||8th blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for 5 months. 5.6% ABV||-
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|01/17/2018||750 mL||Listed as Oude Kriek Toast. 14th blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This blend was macerated in a freshly toasted 1,000L barrel. 1,150 bottles 6.4% ABV.||
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|05/17/2018||375 mL||58th blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for almost 6 months. The final fruit intensity is 370 grams of sour cherries per liter of Oude Kriek (37%). During blending, local honey was added.||-
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|07/26/2018||375 mL||71st blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle.  This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for 6 months and 10 days. The lambics in this blend originate from 5 different barrels and 4 different brews.||[[File:3 Fonteinen OK 27 Jul 2018..JPG|frameless|150px]]
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|08/02/2018||375 mL||72nd blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle.  This specific Oude Kriek was macerated on fruit for 6 months and 15 days. The final fruit concentration is 350 grams of kriek per liter of lambic. The lambics in this blend originate from 3 different barrels and 3 different brews.||[[File:3 Fonteinen OK 02 Aug 2018.JPG|frameless|150px]]
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|10/04/2018||375 mL||82nd blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This specific Oude Kriek has spend 6 months macerating on fruit in a 4,000 liter foeder. The lambic in this blend cams from 2 differnet barrels and 2 different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.||[[File:Oude Kriek Vat 0.375 - 4 10 2018 - NLFR.png|frameless|150px]]
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|10/10/2018||375 mL||83rd blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for almost 5 months. The lambics in this blend originate from 4 different barrels and 5 different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.||[[File:Oude Kriek 0.375 - 10 10 2018 - USA.png|frameless|150px]]
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|01/23/2019||375 mL||32nd blend of the 2018-19 season, screen printed bottle.  This specific Oude Kriek has more than 6 months maceration on fruit. The lambic in this blend comes from 5 different barrels originating from 5 different blends. The final fruit intensity is 382 grams of cherries per liter.||[[File:Oude Kriek 0.375 - 23 1 2019 - NLFR.png|frameless|150px]]
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|04/18/2019||375 mL||66th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated for 6 months in a wooden foeder. The lambic in this blend comes from  7 different barrels and 7 different brews.  The final fruit intensity amounts to 356 grams of cherries per liter of Oude Kriek.||[[File:3F OK 18 April 2019.png|frameless|150px]]
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|06/06/2019||750 mL||78th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated for 7 months. The lambic used in this maceration came from one barrel and two different brews. The lambic for backblending came again from a single vat and two different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen ||[[File:3F OK 06 Jun 2019 75.png|frameless|150px]]
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|06/06/2019||750 mL||78th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated for 7 months. The lambic used in this maceration came from one barrel and two different brews. The lambic for backblending came again from a single vat and two different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen ||[[File:3F OK 06 Jun 2019 75US.png|frameless|150px]]
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|06/27/2019||375 mL||85th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated on fruit for just over 6 months. The lambic in this blend comes from 4 different barrels and 11 different brews.  100% 3 Fonteinen.||[[File:3F OK 27 Jun 2019 375.png|frameless|150px]]
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|07/03/2019||375 mL||86th blend of the 2018-19 season. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for over 7 months. The lambics in this blend origination from 3 different barrels and 5 different brewes, of which 62% brewed by 3 Fonteinen and 38% by Brouwerij Boon. FInal fruit intensity of 350 grams of sour cherries per liter of Oude Kriek.||[[File:3F OK 03 Jul 2019 375US.png|frameless|150px]]
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|10/23/2019||750 mL||120th blend of the 2018-19 season. This particular Oude KRiek has more than 7 months of maceration. The lambic used for this maceration comes from two barrels and three brews and has a final fruit intensity of 340 grams of cherry per litre of finished Oude Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.||[[File:3F OK 23 Oct 2019.png|frameless|150px]]
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|12/17/2019||1.5 L||New paper label, 13th blend of the 2018-19 season. For this Oude Kriek, we macerated whole sour cherries on one- and almost-two-year old lambik in stainless steel. The maceration lasted 5.5 months. The lambikken that we used for macerating and blending originate from three different barrels and four different brews. The final fruit intensity is 346 grams of sour cherries per liter of Oude Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.||[[File:3F Oude Kriek 17 Dec 2019 Magnum.png|frameless|150px]]
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|01/08/2020||750 mL||New paper label, 16th blend of the 2019-20 season. For this specific Oude Kriek, we macerated sour cherries for seven months on stainless steel. The lambikken that were used originate from five different barrels and give different brews. The final fruit intensity is 334 grams of sour cherries per liter of oak. 100% 3 Fonteinen.||[[File:3F OK 08 Jan 2020.png|frameless|150px]]
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|02/05/2020||375 mL||New paper label, 35th blend of the 2019-20 season. For this specific Oude Kriek, we macerated sour cherries with jonge lambikken from three different brews and from one and the same barrel, during six months on stainless steel. We blended with another jonge lambik to a final fruit intensity of 353 grams of sour cherries per litre of Oude Kriek. We kept this bottle for almost 18months in our own cellars before releasing this Oude Kriek.||[[File:3F Oude Kriek 05 Feb 2020.png|frameless|150px]]
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|02/20/2020||750 mL||New paper label, 46th blend of the 2019-20 season. This Oude Kriek is typified by a long maceration of six and a half months on oak barrels. While most of the sour cherries were macerated on toasted oak, we decided to blend these to an Oude Kriek rather than a Robijn as we deemed the toast characteristics more subtle. We used five different lambikken from seven different brews. We let this Oude Kriek, wit ha 32% fruit intensity, settle for well over a year before releasing it. This way, the weighted average of this bottle is well over 30 months when released.||[[File:3F Oude Kriek 20 Feb 2020.png|frameless|250px]]
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|09/09/2020||750 mL||**PEATED KRIEK, new round label** New paper label, 75th blend of the 2019-20 season. This Oude Kriek was macerated with sour cherries for almost eleven months. The lambikken used while macerating were both 1 and 2—year-old. We also used 1, 2, and 3-year-old lambikken from (peated) sherryy barrels to blend the sour cherry lambik into a Kriek. By doing so, the weigthed average of this Kriek is a tad less than two-and-a-half years upon release. Final fruit intensityy of 354 grams per liter of Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.||[[File:3F OK Peated 09 Sep 2020.png|frameless|150px]]
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== Photos ==
== Photos ==
More pics
<gallery>
 
File:3FonteinenOudeKriek-1.jpg
 
File:3FonteinenKriek-1.jpg
 
File:3FonteinenKriek-2.jpg
File:3FonteinenKriek-3.jpg
File:3F-Oude-Kriek-Toast.jpg
</gallery>


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3F Oude Kriek
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Description

3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek is a traditional kriek lambic released annually in several batches by the brewery. It is produced by macerating cherries, including the pits, in young lambic. After bottling, it is stored in a warm room for at least four months to help with secondary fermentation in the bottle.[1] Oude Kriek is released in 375 mL and 750 mL bottles and was previously labeled as 6% ABV, though older labels show that it was once listed at 5% ABV. Currently, the ABV varies from blend to blend. In 2021, a 1.5 L magnum bottling was released for the first time.

History / Other Notes

The brewery has been bottling their Oude Kriek since at least the 1990s, with a variety of labels documented below. After the Thermostat Incident, which essentially cooked over 80,000 bottles of lambic causing some of them to explode, an unspecified number of Oude Kriek bottles survived. These were bottled on March 31, 2009, and became known as "Hot Cherry" bottles when they began to circulate in the beer community. A special bottling of Oude Kriek called Oude Kriek Toast is listed here as a variant of the Oude Kriek and at the request of the brewery.

Label Log

  • Old neck label for kriek
    Old neck label for kriek
  • Back of kriek neck label
    Back of kriek neck label
  • European label, 37,5cl, pre-screen printing
    European label, 37,5cl, pre-screen printing
  • U.S. label, pre-screen printing
    U.S. label, pre-screen printing
  • U.S. label, pre-screen printing
    U.S. label, pre-screen printing
  • Oude Kriek Toast label
    Oude Kriek Toast label
  • New paper label, non-screen printed.
    New paper label, non-screen printed.

Bottle Log

Bottle Date (mm/dd/yyyy) Bottle Size Label / Notes Image Link
12/17/1994 Neck ring label - 5% ABV -
01/30/1996 750 mL Neck ring label - 5% ABV
12/06/1996 750 mL Capped and corked, cream label
03/27/1998 750 mL Cream label -
03/12/1999 750 mL Cream label
03/14/1999 750 mL Cream label
01/06/2002 375 mL Cream label -
02/26/2005 750 mL Upside down Shelton label, Dutch date -
11/28/2006 750 mL 12.7oz U.S. label on 750 mL bottle, synthetic cork
12/19/2006 375 mL Paper label, synthetic cork
12/14/2007 375 mL Paper label -
03/31/2009 375 mL "Hot Cherry" bottles that survived thermostat incident -
04/01/2011 375 mL Paper label
01/27/2012 375 mL Paper label
06/03/2013 375 mL Paper label
06/06/2013 375 mL Paper label -
06/11/2013 375 mL Paper label -
04/14/2014 375 mL Paper label
05/22/2014 375 mL Paper label
01/18/2015 375ml Paper label -
01/19/2015 750 mL Paper label -
01/29/2015 375 mL Paper label
07/14/2015 375 mL Paper label
02/06/2016 750 mL Paper label
05/02/2016 375 mL Paper label -
10/24/2016 750 mL 3rd blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed label -
11/02/2016 750 mL Paper label
11/02/2016 750 mL 4th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle -
11/03/2016 750ml 5th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle -
04/20/2017 375 mL 31st blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle -
06/14/2017 33rd blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for 6.5 months. 5.70% ABV -
09/05/2017 750 mL 44th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle. 1,240 bottles -
09/05/2017 750 mL 45th blend of the 2016-17 season, screen printed bottle. 1,266 bottles -
12/15/2017 375ml 8th blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for 5 months. 5.6% ABV -
01/17/2018 750 mL Listed as Oude Kriek Toast. 14th blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This blend was macerated in a freshly toasted 1,000L barrel. 1,150 bottles 6.4% ABV.
05/17/2018 375 mL 58th blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for almost 6 months. The final fruit intensity is 370 grams of sour cherries per liter of Oude Kriek (37%). During blending, local honey was added. -
07/26/2018 375 mL 71st blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for 6 months and 10 days. The lambics in this blend originate from 5 different barrels and 4 different brews.
08/02/2018 375 mL 72nd blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This specific Oude Kriek was macerated on fruit for 6 months and 15 days. The final fruit concentration is 350 grams of kriek per liter of lambic. The lambics in this blend originate from 3 different barrels and 3 different brews.
10/04/2018 375 mL 82nd blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This specific Oude Kriek has spend 6 months macerating on fruit in a 4,000 liter foeder. The lambic in this blend cams from 2 differnet barrels and 2 different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
10/10/2018 375 mL 83rd blend of the 2017-18 season, screen printed bottle. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for almost 5 months. The lambics in this blend originate from 4 different barrels and 5 different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
01/23/2019 375 mL 32nd blend of the 2018-19 season, screen printed bottle. This specific Oude Kriek has more than 6 months maceration on fruit. The lambic in this blend comes from 5 different barrels originating from 5 different blends. The final fruit intensity is 382 grams of cherries per liter.
04/18/2019 375 mL 66th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated for 6 months in a wooden foeder. The lambic in this blend comes from 7 different barrels and 7 different brews. The final fruit intensity amounts to 356 grams of cherries per liter of Oude Kriek.
06/06/2019 750 mL 78th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated for 7 months. The lambic used in this maceration came from one barrel and two different brews. The lambic for backblending came again from a single vat and two different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen
06/06/2019 750 mL 78th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated for 7 months. The lambic used in this maceration came from one barrel and two different brews. The lambic for backblending came again from a single vat and two different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen
06/27/2019 375 mL 85th blend of the 2018-19 season. This specific Oude Kriek macerated on fruit for just over 6 months. The lambic in this blend comes from 4 different barrels and 11 different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
07/03/2019 375 mL 86th blend of the 2018-19 season. This particular Oude Kriek has macerated for over 7 months. The lambics in this blend origination from 3 different barrels and 5 different brewes, of which 62% brewed by 3 Fonteinen and 38% by Brouwerij Boon. FInal fruit intensity of 350 grams of sour cherries per liter of Oude Kriek.
10/23/2019 750 mL 120th blend of the 2018-19 season. This particular Oude KRiek has more than 7 months of maceration. The lambic used for this maceration comes from two barrels and three brews and has a final fruit intensity of 340 grams of cherry per litre of finished Oude Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
12/17/2019 1.5 L New paper label, 13th blend of the 2018-19 season. For this Oude Kriek, we macerated whole sour cherries on one- and almost-two-year old lambik in stainless steel. The maceration lasted 5.5 months. The lambikken that we used for macerating and blending originate from three different barrels and four different brews. The final fruit intensity is 346 grams of sour cherries per liter of Oude Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
01/08/2020 750 mL New paper label, 16th blend of the 2019-20 season. For this specific Oude Kriek, we macerated sour cherries for seven months on stainless steel. The lambikken that were used originate from five different barrels and give different brews. The final fruit intensity is 334 grams of sour cherries per liter of oak. 100% 3 Fonteinen.
02/05/2020 375 mL New paper label, 35th blend of the 2019-20 season. For this specific Oude Kriek, we macerated sour cherries with jonge lambikken from three different brews and from one and the same barrel, during six months on stainless steel. We blended with another jonge lambik to a final fruit intensity of 353 grams of sour cherries per litre of Oude Kriek. We kept this bottle for almost 18months in our own cellars before releasing this Oude Kriek.
02/20/2020 750 mL New paper label, 46th blend of the 2019-20 season. This Oude Kriek is typified by a long maceration of six and a half months on oak barrels. While most of the sour cherries were macerated on toasted oak, we decided to blend these to an Oude Kriek rather than a Robijn as we deemed the toast characteristics more subtle. We used five different lambikken from seven different brews. We let this Oude Kriek, wit ha 32% fruit intensity, settle for well over a year before releasing it. This way, the weighted average of this bottle is well over 30 months when released.
09/09/2020 750 mL **PEATED KRIEK, new round label** New paper label, 75th blend of the 2019-20 season. This Oude Kriek was macerated with sour cherries for almost eleven months. The lambikken used while macerating were both 1 and 2—year-old. We also used 1, 2, and 3-year-old lambikken from (peated) sherryy barrels to blend the sour cherry lambik into a Kriek. By doing so, the weigthed average of this Kriek is a tad less than two-and-a-half years upon release. Final fruit intensityy of 354 grams per liter of Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.3fonteinen.be/proef/oude-kriek.html - 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek


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