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Bethlehem Brew Works Framboise


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83
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A Lambic - Fruit brewed by
Bethlehem Brew Works

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA

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263.51/5.03.47/5.07%52.1Flute, Tumbler P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Medium amber with a faint salmon hue. Ripe raspberry and wildflower nose. A very tart entry leads to a medium-to full-bodied palate with mouth-puckering raspberry, mild hops, and sour lambic-like flavors. Finishes with a tongue-drying berry seed note. A solid domestic interpretation of the style.

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 SETANTA (566), Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/513/20

Sep 5, 2003  


 BrianK (102), New Jersey, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/514/20
Nov 18, 2008  
Draft at brewpub. It has a sharp acidic punch which quickly subdues. Descent fresh raspberry flavor. I’d drink it again. I love to see brewpubs branching out and doing lambics.


 bu11zeye (4066), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Nov 18, 2008  
(Draught) Pours a murky reddish golden with a small white head. Aroma of raspberry, earthiness, mustiness, cheese, and grain. Flavor of sour raspberries, earth, and caramel.


 FlacoAlto (2251), Tucson, Arizona, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/102/511/20
Oct 22, 2008  
<b>Sampled GABF 2008</b><br /> The beer has a murky, light amber color and is topped by a white colored head. This has a woody, almost grassy nose to it that is clearly derived from raspberries but sot of accentuating all the wrong notes. Other aromas of musty cellars, light notes of overly ripe, funky cheese and a lot of malt character; more grassy notes, but grain this time as well as a solid cracker like aroma.<br /><br /> The flavor is tart up front, though not overly so and is actually quite light if this was trying to be a Lambic. The body is quite thin and watery and is lacking in the body that I would expect from a well made sour beer. Again there is lots of grain character here in the flavor, which does seem a bit out of place, but contributes notes of grassy grain and lots of cracker-like whole grain flavors. The raspberry flavor here is noticeable, but it is quite light and most definitely watered down. This definitely gets quite funky at times as I do believe this tastes like vomit. Unfortunately this is really not very good.


 BDR (1984), Roseville, Minnesota, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Oct 16, 2008  
GABF 2008. A hazy dark gold pour with a malty, faintly raspberry aroma. Minimal funk & sourness there but malty. The body had much more tart fruit in it, but still very grainy for my tastes.


 beastiefan2k (1249), Lawrence (formely NYC), Kansas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Oct 16, 2008  
GABF’08. Pours a thick, dirty brown-ish, not what I expected. Aroma is very earthy, brown mud, a very thick malty aroma. Not really anything beer about it, no sourness, not bad though. Taste is a bit more sweet with some raspberry. But its still mainly this earthy, muddy brew. Nothing sour or lambic or anything of that sort. Still drinkable through.



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