Average age of over 2.5 years upon release, no backblending. We lost 4 barrels along the way and we blended 12 barrels for this blend and 12 barrels for batch 5 (blend 49). Beginning of 2017, we acquired a second set of 21 Oloroso and 7 PX barrels and aged young lambic on them for another year. 100% 3 Fonteinen lambic.īatch 6, screen printed bottle.
We lost 4 barrels along the way and we blended 12 barrels for this blend and 12 barrels for batch 6 (blend 50).
Because of the sensitivity of the lambic pellicle compared to the sherries, the solera method will be discontinued.īatch 5, screen printed bottle. Hence, the average age of these lambics is still over 45 months. This batch is a blend of two of these barrels, blended with lambics from the second run of sherry barrels and back blended with a small portion of young 3 Fonteinen lambic. From the original first 12 barrels purchased in 2012, only seven survived after two solera cycles. Because of the sensitivity of the lambic pellicle compared to that of sherries, the solera method will be discontinued.īatch 4, screen printed bottle, Solera method. Hence, the average age of these lambics is over 60 months. This batch is a blend of five of these barrels, back blended with a small portion of young 3 Fonteinen lambic. Batch 3: From the original 12 barrels purchased in 2012, only seven survived after two solera cycles. Batches 3 and 4 of Zenne y Frontera saw the return and subsequent discontinuation of the Solera method of blending these lambics.īatch 3, screen printed bottle, Solera method. However, four new batches were blended and bottled in 2018, two of which (batches 3 and 4) used the Solera method extending the average age of the lambic used to as old as 60 months. In March 2017, the brewery received 21 more Oloroso sherry and 9 more Pedro Ximénez sherry barrels.īetween 2017 and the late summer of 2019, no new batches of Zenne y Frontera were released. The average age of lambic in the second bottling is more than 45 months. This batch contains lambic that has been in the barrels since the spring of 2013 as well as younger lambic that had been used to top off the sherry barrels that were not fully emptied in a type of Solera method. The second batch of Zenne y Frontera is limited to approximately 3,000 bottles. In December 2016, in a collaboration with the Belgian specialty store Tasttoe Two, 3 Fonteinen released 150 gift packs (75 available at the brewery and 75 available at Tasttoe Two) called "The Perfect Date" which contained one bottle of the first batch of Zenne y Frontera, one bottle of Bodegas Tradicion Oloroso (30 year Sherry), and one bottle of Bodegas Tradicion Pedro Ximinez (20 year Sherry). The remaining bottles were sold to bars and restaurants for onsite consumption and pairings based on the culinary focus of the beer. According to the brewery, this collaboration seeks to bridge the beer and wine worlds and is also aimed at drawing in the culinary sector.Īpproximately 500-600 bottles of the first batch were available to go at 3 Fonteinen's Open Beer Days, September 3-7, 2015. A portion of lambic from the original batch was left in the cask prior to bottling, and the casks were topped off a second time. Of the 12 casks, 9 were Oloroso Sherry and 3 were Pedro Ximénez. For the first bottling, the lambic was aged in 40-year-old casks for 12 months prior to bottling. Approximately 4,000 750ml bottles were filled with some being distributed to restaurants and bars around Europe and some being sold on-site at the brewery.ģ Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera is a creation from Armand Debelder, together with sommelier Andy De Brouwer of Les Eleveurs. It is listed as 7% ABV and was released in August 2015. The first batch is comprised of lambic brewed on January 19, 2012, barreled, and then refined in Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry barrels starting in the spring of 2013. A side-by-side tasting of Zenne y Frontera and the two sherries which were previously in the same barrels, December 2016.
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