Boon Framboise

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Lembeek, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Colore rubino vivo,schiuma scarsa e rosacea.Chiaro l’aroma di lamponi e fiori. Il gusto è fruttato, medio asprezza, un pò astringente, zuccherosa. Il finale è equilibrato. Una birra elegante.

Bottle. 2002 i believe. Pours a brown tea body with a thin bubbly lacing. Tart chewy raspberries, a bit woody with some tanic notes. Most of the flavor is diminished, a bit woody dry and mostly devoid of fruit and in its place oxidation notes. No acidity or much else to speak of oh well.

Pours a murky dark red color with lots of floaties and a medium pinkish white head. The aroma has raspberries and tartness. The flavor is slightly tart and there’s of course raspberries, I would have liked some funk, but didn’t find any. The body is light to medium with low carbonation. Not bad, but not impressive at all.

Bottle 2004, traded with hallinghansen. Pours an hazy ruby colour with a long lasting reddish head. Aroma is fresh sweet raspberries with a slight sour touch. The flavour is dry raspberries with a nice sour kick and a dim sweetness in the back. I miss some cellar like and dusty flavours but quite good anyway.
Earlier Rating: 5/14/2009 Total Score: 3.7
Bottle. Pours hazy reddish brown with a small red/brown head. Aroma is slightly sour raspberries, a little vinegar and weak notes of prunes. Flavour is sweet raspberries and weak notes of prunes with a bittersweet raspberry aftertaste.

Bottle 2004 edition. Hazy reddish body with a small pink head. Nice aroma of light sour raspberry and light acid. The flavour is pure sour raspberry. Very refreshing and tastefull. Lovely soft and smooth body. Great Lambic.
Earlier Rating: 6/21/2008 Total Score: 3.7
Bottle. Pours pink with a medium pink head. Aroma is raspberry and acid. Flavour is the same. Its very pleasant and I guess this would be even better cellared for a couple of years.

750 ml bottle, 1997. Clear purple brown with a ring of white foam. Nose is raspberry jam and mousse with touches of honey and cider vinegar. Juicy and mouth watering with faint pricks of carb. Taste is raspberry, plum, strawberry and vanilla yoghurt. Soft and sweet with light tartness. Maybe a bit faded but still delicious.

37.5 cl bottle, dark red colour and a bit pink not stable head. Raspberry smell (what you could expect from a framboise) and a bit sour smell in the nose. I could not let it ripe in the cellar because I was too curieus to taste it. Taste: sour, raspberries with their typical sharpness, sweet, red berries. I think this is a good lambic but not a real topper.

2005 Vintage, no expiry shown. Poured out a small whitish head that had some retention and leaves some spotty lacing. Kind of an orangy reddish brown - definetly not a colour that catches your eye. The aroma is totally different than the Lindemans I had two days ago. This one has it’s raspberries but they are not oversweet or potent - they come across softer and do not seem fresh picked and some blackberries. There is also some leather and some other odd off-smelling odor. The taste is a very sharp, blunt, watery sourness - very sour indeed. The raspberry is there but the sourness has overpowered it. Very very tart. This is the total opposite of Lindemans (which I also have in a glass for comparrision). Short sour finish that does fade in strength. Wacky. I think I’ll get another one that’s younger and give it another shot.