Bottle
3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen, Beersel
Father and son on the label, old geuze from Beersel.
Legend has it
On the morning of 16 May 2009 Armand Debelder walked into the warehouse and met a wall of heat. A thermostat had stuck and left a hot-air blower running until it was around 60°C inside. The bottles began to explode. Some 13,000 burst and tens of thousands more were ruined. It very nearly took the brewery with it. It was fellow brewers rather than banks who helped him back, and the damaged beer was distilled into an eau de vie of geuze.
Beer stories travel from brewery to bar to guest, and rarely shrink on the way.
Interesting facts
- Father and son
- The cuvée is named after Armand Debelder and his father Gaston, who ran the inn called De 3 Fonteinen in Beersel.
- The blend
- It is blended from one, two and three year old lambic, all brewed in the house, and referments in the bottle.
- The kitchen set aside
- Armand Debelder cooked at the family restaurant for twenty-eight years. In 2001 he stopped in order to brew lambic and blend geuze and nothing else. He died in 2022.
Especially good with
Mussels with white wine, lemon & parsley, or cheese croquette.