12/31/02: bottle. nice, thick pink blush to white head. wonderful lacing and a wonderful, heavenly smell. i think that i could sit and smell this one all day! a more refined taste than the Lindemans Pêche i had the night before (more tart and mellow. less sweet.) clean, refreshing with hints of raspberries. a great taste to end the year.

Bottle, from Waitrose, Marlborough, Wilts. Fruity, slightly tart, but deeply pleasurable aroma. Sharpish, fruit gum flavour, which levels out as strawberry/raspberry, with a softening metallic finish. Sherbetty sparkle, alternating with cake - hoppy on your tongue. Thin mouthfeel, little carbonation. Relatively complex - better than Belle Vue's Kriek, and my favourite Framboise overall.

Bottle at the Anglers Arms, Haverthwaite 28/10/2006 Strong fruit aroma. Red coloured and fruity raspberry with some dryness and malt in a crisp finish.

Something for the lovers of sweet beers. Fruity, sweet, raspberries, not really sour. Quite good

my bottle has the continental label: "la becasse" and features the elusive eurasian woodcock. the bottled bird burst the bounds of glassy confinement with a sticky drench of angry foam. once corraled into proper glassware, the brew glistened like a copper alembic, proudly polished, with a fog of opacity and a faint blush of lipstick rouge. just a sniff of the aggressive tartness causes salivary glands to pucker. it’s a cookie-crusted tarte aux framboise with both the soft pine of fresh kindling and a note that recalls milk chocolate. great fruit basket sweetness balances with tartness, it’s full-flavored on a cool, refreshing, wine-like body. it tastes like granny smith apples and wild raspberries, with a doughy wheat-like sweetness that dries by seeming to trickle over raw lumber-- the living lambic that dwells beneath. not as lovely as a lindemann’s, but a great change of pace beverage.