Speling van het Lot VIII.iii: Schaarbeekse (+ Framboos) On A Toast - Blended & Alive

Blend n° 48 • bottling date: 05/04/18 • bottle count: 2,431

This version features the maceration of Schaarbeekse cherries on charred/toasted barrels. These noblest of sour cherries have been sourced in the gardens of and hand-picked by more than 50 families around Brussels.

This Schaarbeekse On A Toast has macerated for 266 days (over 8.5 months) on a fresh 1,000 litre medium toasted French oak barrel... and we added the same proportion of organic raspberries from the Ferme Framboos. After the maceration, the fruit lambik was blended with young lambik for a continued fermentation in the bottle. The total fruit intensity is 278 grams of fruit per litre of bottled fruit lambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen brewed lambik.

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. Show Less