4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Auction.
Nice reddish / brown pour.
Sweet and sour aroma with rasberry and a hint of wine.
A complex , but well blended taste with notes of, sour and bitter fruit , wood and rasberry. With a big Acid /tart finish.
Not my favorite style, but this ruled!
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
On off the best framboise beers ever !!! Very well balanced with sour and the rasberry’s
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Mega Tasting III, 1999 vintage, 750ml bottle. Words cannot express the huge awesomeness that this day has brought. Derek, you are the f’n man. Poured into RBSG 2010 tulip.
A - Pours a muddled brownish color, white head, no lacing, and some spotty whisps on top here and there.
S - Raspberry puree sweetness, nice funk, lactic acidic notes, some oak. The raspberry is so pronounced it’s unlike anything I’ve ever had. Not overly sour, just right, and very tart. The cheesey funk is there, but it doesn’t overpower or overtake the raspberry at all.
T - Wow. Funky raspberry bomb! Nice sour/tart notes, moreso then the nose, which is excellent. The finish is funky with a tart bite on the end. Just amazing how the raspberry is still there after 12 years.
M - Light, very soft carbonation, dry finish.
D - Simply impressive. The raspberry is all over this one, which truthfully, I wasn’t expecting after all these years. Destroys all other sour raspberry beers with ease and just excellent. Will i ever have it again? Probably not...how sad.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Courtesy of hoppymeal
Bottle: The aroma is sweet raspberry, funk, faint sour raspberry, and cork. It pours a hazy orange with a minimal off-white ring for a head. The flavor starts with a quick dose of sweet raspberry. The finish has strong sourness, funk, and a touch of cork. Sourness is slightly mouth puckering. Light-medium bodied with soft carbonation.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Consumed at LCBS 2010 with great ratebeerians and members of BA
Big thanks to henrik for letting me have the pleasure of prying this from his hands.
A: Pours a nice reddish pink with a thin white head. Lite on the retention and a few spots of lace.
S: Subtle yet wonderful aromas. Tart berry and oak. Hints of vinegar as well.
T: Tart raspberry and hints of mulberry. Mild oak with a nice lactic quality. Sour without being too much, a mild vinegar note. No oxidation at all.
M: Nice and crisp, perfect carbonation, with a nice tartness from the middle through the finish.
Those who say this one is past its prime are wrong.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
What a monster of a beer to rate. Thanks to Greg for helping land this whale! Pours out blood orange-red with white lacing into the glass. Foam dissipates before much head can form, but the thin layer of white retains fairly well. The aroma is raspberries, mild dark fruit, subtle barnyard and funk. This thing is fantastic, gotta say any rumor of this beer being over-the-hill are quite exaggerated at best . . . unless it was drinking like cherub tears 10 years ago! Wonderful amalgam of raspberries in the front palate, some lemony citrusiness, lactose sour soon follows. Back palate is a very complex yet well melded blend of earth and funk. Loved this beer!
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
LCBS 2010. Pours a nice reddish color with a very thin whitish head. Aroma starts with raspberries, leads to vinegar, wood, lactic notes and then finishes with more raspberries. Flavor is an amazing blend of lactic tartness, raspberry sweetness, funk...just a beautiful beer. I detected no oxidation to speak of.
4.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
3oz pour of a 1999’ vintage bottle procured by Greg for the LCBS 10.
Somethings you just have to experience for yourself........
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