UPDATED: MAY 31, 2019 1987 bottle @ Kulminator, Antwerpen. No head, amber ale. Lots of sweet and fruity raspberry still, really smooth, roosvise, light acidity: superb. Cloying but soft mouthfeel, absent carbonation, good body.

Bottle at Kulminator, 1987 vintage. Clear copper/amber pour, no head. Age has mellowed this out completely. No sour notes anymore, just fruity sweetness. Strawberry jam, raspberries, raisins, pleasantly oxidized. Almost velvety, so smooth. Slightly artificial fruit profile and sugars. Very interesting too taste. This is 3 years older than me.

Vintage 1989. Bottle from Jef, memy thanks. Aroma of honey and raspberries. Taste is very sweet, almost like mead. Flavor of honey, tea, raspberries. Weird stuff, nothing to do with lambic, but still interesting beer.

Bottle - Vintage 1987 - Sweet and mellow jammy strawberry. Clear Amber with a small white head. Sweet syrupy cooked strawberry. This old vintage has taken the sweetness and mellowed it out with a really nice cooked fruit notes.

Bottle at Kulminator, Antwerp. Clear orange/copper beer with a small offwhite head. Fruity grape and raspberry aroma, raisins, vinous, woody notes, some sweet vinegar. Citrus and raspberry flavor, raisins, grapes, vinous, some wood. Kinda sweet, lacking carbonation. But still quite ok and definately glad to gave tried it.

Well-balanced ’compromis’ framboise with both commercial sweetness and subtle lambic-like funkiness, true raspberry taste as well as sugar. Tasted many years ago from tap at Botteltje in Ostend. Too bad Eylenbosch of Schepdaal went the way of the dodo in 1991, every lambic brewery disappearing is a loss for Belgian beer culture.

Bottle of 1994. Slight oxidation, raspberry finish, flat carbonization but still a round body for its age. Wonderful beer!

Bottle at Kulminator. Clear deep reddish brown liquid with a small white head. Aroma of cardboard, bread, cinnamon, raspberries and lemon’. Taste is light sweet and light sour with notes of raspberries, cinnamon and bread. Medium bodied with very low carbonation. Still nice, probably a great beer once.

1987 Vintage. 330mL bottle, pours a clear bronze amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out faded raspberries, funk, and cardboard. Flavour is very soft, with sweet raspberries, followed by only a touch of funk and maybe a hint of oxidation. The raspberries are surprisingly front and centre, with not a whole lot of funk or even oxidation. Carbonation is very soft, almost flat. This has stood up well. Very good stuff.

Bottle from Kulminator (1987). Hazy deep amber pour, no head. Aroma is toasty, dead and oxidized, carboardy, no raspberry aroma left. Taste of cardborad, chalk, ever so slight kind of light sweet fruitiness. Completely dead.