Boon Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Deep ruby color with a large light pink head. Aroma is of tart raspberries. Taste is of raspberies as well. It is tart with a pleasant sweetness to it and a hint of oak as well. Quite dry.

Bottle from PP bottle shop. Clear red amber color. Nice raspberry aroma with a little funk. Sweet, but not as sweet as Lindemans. Very good. Light sourness. Easy to drink.

UPDATED: JUN 8, 2009 375mL cork&wire, BB 25/08/2008, which makes this almost 3.5 years old. Which makes sense cause I picked it up in a bargain bin in some random liquor store in Minneapolis (score). I pop the cork and the beer foams out super slow, just inches a bit, eventually looks like a finger sticking out of the bottle. Poured into a white wine glass with a fast fading head and a reddish, burnt caramel color. Aroma is still full of raspberries with a good amount of old maltiness, musty and musky malts represent the age. There is a very faint fruit vinegar aspect representing the actual lambic. Taste is aged fruit with light sweet cherry and a bit of raspberry. Its fun to try out this kind of thing with age, should be consumed fresh. 7/4/7/3/15

375mL cork&wire, BB 04/08/2009, just short of 3 years old. Very different experience, barely a pop, no head. Aroma is very sweet with some light oak (wood) coming through and a little bit of barnyard, very little. Flavor is very sweet, just some musky and a bit of a tartness all the way at the end of the flavor, that is as far as the lambic part goes. Wow, just so different then the other bottle. 7/3/6/3/14

UPDATED: DEC 22, 2009 2004-edition. I opened this perfect marriage at New Year’s eve with my wife and family. It pours a hazy orange-brown with a low pink head. The aroma is thick with sweet raspberries - very nice. And the flavours doesn’t dissapoint: raspberry and sweet cherry dominates with some further notes of wood. It is not anywhere near as complex, as say Lou Pepe Framboise, but it is extremely resfreshing All combined, this is something to treasure.
Earlier Rating: 9/13/2008 Total Score: 3.8
Hazy orange with a low head. Sweet raspberry aroma with further notes of basement, wood and cask. Invitating and just plain out thirst provoking! And the flavour fullfill my greatest dream of a perfect beer: It begins sweet like raspbeery juice but then devolps into acid and a bit sour notes with basement, mold and wild yeast playing in the background. It’s is neither complex nor extremely sour/acid, but then again, does a well rounded fruit lambic need to be almost undrinkable to be great?

Dark red in color with a pink disappearing head. Strong fruity rasberry notes in the aroma. Mainly sweet flavor that i found a little bit cloying, with some medium tart notes. Not as refreshing as the parfait, but still very good.
Earlier Rating: 9/20/2008 Total Score: 4.4
Rating #24from the european beer festival 2008. One of the best brews of the evening and certainly a nice suprise to find this one on the festival. Has a great hazy red towards pink look. Fine sweet rasberry aroma along with some sour eartheren notes. Light white sugery taste along with tons of ras sweetness and a well put tartness. Was perfect at the time, and so good that i had to try two samples!

UPDATED: JAN 28, 2009 Pours a clear ruby red with a thin pink head. The aroma is raspberries, as well as plenty of lambic funkiness/fishiness. The flavor is sweet with fresh berries, along with sour acidic fermentation. A really great lambic and just what I expected. Champagne mouthfeel.

Japan seems to still have many a bottle of this retired beer. It’s available in several Tokyo stores. Pours a copper pink color, small off white to grayish head. Smells of unripe raspberries, cherries, a hint of the bitter sweet taste to come. Tastes of sour raspberries with a hint of cherry, moves to bitter quite quickly. Medium and frothy on the palate, slow finish. As a Lambic fan I could have used it a bit sweeter, but a nice brew!

Bottle, Ale Cellar, Darlington. Poured a dark red colour with a medium pinkish head. Big raspberry aroma which continued in to the flavour which started sweet then kicked in to a sourness which had a wonderful balance to it. Supremely tasty.