Join us for an intimate evening at the Anaheim shop as we taste through this years Speling Van Het Lot small batch and experimental series from 3 Fonteinen. We are once again honored to receive this on premise only series along with a small amount of other bars and restaurants around the world. Join Scott as we taste through all nine of the offerings talking about the beers, the brewery and Belgium!

Wednesday March 30th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm at the Anaheim Shop

1 ticket includes a pour of all nine of this years offerings in the SVHL Twist of Fate series

Speling van het Lot | Twist of Fate 2019/2020 Season

Speling van het Lot X.viii - Druif: Johanniter

After a first run of grape based Spelingen from their 2018 harvest, and overwhelmed by the results, we continued experimenting with the grapes from Ghislain Houben and his son Jeroen from Hoenshof, Hoepertingen near Sint-Truiden, Limburg province, Belgium. For this Speling van het Lot, we macerated 250 kilos of Johanniter must for three months and a half on an oak barrel. We backblended with a minor amount of young lambic to let the Riesling-alike characteristics of this cépage shine through. This results in a final fruit intensity of 610 grams of Johanniter grapes per liter of Druif. Lambics used originate from two barrels and three different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot X.x - Druif: Cabernet Cortis

While experimenting with grapes, we have always had in mind to put the emphasis on fruitiness while balancing the nuances of the cépages, and the characteristics of our traditional lambik. While Cabernet aromas and taste can be on the peppery side and green- bell-pepper-forward, we find that this Speling features these characteristics in a subtle way. Beginning of October 2019, we started macerating a good 200 kilos of Cabernet Cortis grapes on young lambik in an ex-Bordeaux barrel. We let it sit for a good 4,5 months before blending it with a bit of other young lambik. Final fruit intensity is at 548 grams of must per litre of druivenlambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot XI.iv - Pruim: Sultana

Ludo Rosseels is known to be one of the last peach growers in Belgium, if not the last. He also owns a small plum orchard with a wide array of new and older varieties. As the last two harvests of peaches were a disaster with virtually no yield, and because we also wanted to help (and actually because we were eager to test), we dived into his plum orchard. That is how in July 2019, we harvested about 250 kilos of Sultana plums that we macerated for almost 6 months. We blended with young lambic prior to bottling to create a nice fruity sparkling plum lambic. The lambic originates from 2 different barrels and 4 different brews. The final fruit intensity is 500 grams of Sultana plums per liter of Pruim. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot XI.v - Pruim: Conducta + Opal

Most of our grapes are currently sourced with Wijndomein Hoenshof from Hoepertingen, near Sint-Truiden in the beautiful province of Limburg. Ghislain and Jeroen also have quite some plum varieIes in their orchard. In the summer of 2019, we got a good 440 kilos of Conducta plums and 110 kilos of Opal plums in. We barrel-macerated (toasted barrel) these for 5 months on some young lambic and bottled this fruit lambic straight away. The final fruit intensity is still a staggering 768 grams of plums per liter of Pruim. The lambic used for maceration came from one barrel that held two different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot XVI.ii - Kriekenlambik: Kelleris

Over the last 5 years, we have increased our efforts to bring more variety in our fruit lambics and to structurally set up and develop relations with local fruit farmers, preferably Belgian and as close to our brewery as possibly. While it remains a big dream to have our regular Kriek made from 100% Schaarbeekse again – and working to make that dream a reality – our plain sour cherries still originate from Serbia. Meanwhile, we continue to search for other varieties, grown in Belgium. That is how last summer, thanks to the fine people at Hoenshof, we came across the Kelleris variety. After a maceration of more than 6 months, we bottled the kriekenlambik straight from the barrel to the bottle without any additional young lambic blended into it. Consequently, the final fruit intensity is 857 grams of sour cherries per liter of Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot XI.vii - Pruim: Hondskloten

Paterskloten (as called in the province of Vlaams-Brabant) or Hondskloten (as called in the province of Limburg) or Karnebroeken (as called around Bruges) are the common local names for a variety of stew plums, called the Belle De Louvain. The plums are typically rather large, egg-shaped, and dark purple red-ish. Beginning of September 2020, we macerated about 300 kilos of these on young lambik in an ex-Bordeaux barrel. Prior to bottling, we blended with a small porIon of another two young lambikken. Consequently, the fruit intensity is sIll at 745 grams of hondskloten per litre of plum lambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot XI.iii - Pruim: Mirabelle

Most of our grapes are currently sourced with Wijndomein Hoenshof from Hoepertingen, near Sint-Truiden in the beauIful province of Limburg. Ghislain and Jeroen also have quite some plum varieIes in their orchard. In the summer of 2019, we got 250 kilos of Mirabelle plums in. We barrel-macerated these for 5,5 months on some young lambic, and blended with some more young lambic prior to bottling, aiming at gefng a nice carbonaIon in the beer, pushing the subtle aromas of Mirabelle up and out of the glass. We used lambic from 3 different barrels and 7 different brews. The final fruit intensity is 462 grams of plums per liter of Pruim. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot X.vii - Druif: Muscaris

After a first run of grape based Spelingen from their 2018 harvest, and overwhelmed by the results, we continued experimenting with the grapes from Ghislain Houben and his son Jeroen from Hoenshof, Hoepertingen near Sint-Truiden, Limburg province, Belgium. For this Speling van het Lot, we macerated 250 kilos of Muscaris must for almost four months on an oak barrel. We bottled the grape lambic straight from the barrel to the bottle without any additional young lambic blended into it. Consequently, the final fruit intensity is 658 grams of grapes per liter of Druif. The lambics originate from 1 barrel and two different brews. 100% 3 Fonteinen.

Speling van het Lot XVI.i - Close, but no Schaarbeekse

Every summer, our circle of local owners of Schaarbeekse trees expands a little – also because we give away a tree or two left and right. In the summer of 2020, this community reached over 70 families. Every drop of cherries is also inspected carefully on colour and ripeness. This is how, last harvest, we received some highly qualitative cherries, but they appeared not to be real Schaarbeekse; it held the middle between a sweet cherry and a smaller sour cherry and had a dark red skin rather than a deep purple one; probably Noordkrieken. Anyhow, we put them for more than six months on a small barrel, before blending and bottling. The final fruit intensity is at 417 grams of local sour cherries per litre of Lokale Kriek. 100% 3 Fonteinen.