Boon Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

75 cl bottle, 2004 Vintage, via sk8viking. Pours a clear amber body with a slight ruby hue under a nice tight bubbled thin layer of pinkish head. Nice overripe red raspberries in the nose with a very complementary bit of musty cellar funkiness. The flavor is nicely tart and sweet at the same time, minimal acidity, this really walks the line splitting the extremes of a Cantillon and a Lindemans right down the middle. The raspberries are very juicy with a lot of seedy flavor. The slight funkiness comes out really nicely the closer to room temp that this gets, especially on the finish. Ends with some chocolaty notes. Mouthfeel is very nice, a fuller body than most Lambics, there’s just enough sweetness to it to be a both a bit sweet and slightly puckering at the same time. Very good.

375 ml Bottle (Õllesummer 2008, Tallinn) - Pink/red in colour with a small but foamy head. Slightly tart and sweet aroma with the raspberries being noticeable. The taste is fairly sweet but has a pleasant tart element. The raspberries are very noticeable in the taste and it is rather sweet at first and becoming more tart in the finishl. Not bad.

Bottle 75 cl, 2004 vintage. Pours a pinkish red with a medium off-white head and an intense aroma of fresh and ripe raspberries coming from the bottle after removing the cork. I would seriously buy a bottle for this smell alone! The taste is very pleasing too, full on raspberries with both a bitter and acidic note coming through in the end. This is something special, you should really try and find it
Earlier Rating: 12/16/2007 Total Score: 3.5
Bottle 37,5 cl (Crop 2005). Pours a clear purplish amber with a small fading white head and a sweet smell of raspberries and brown sugar. Taste is sweet to start with (raspberries with some brown sugar) and after that a nice sour taste comes kicking in and saves this lambic from tasting like a soft drink. A short and watered down finish. Nice lambic

Bottle consumed at Pizza Port bottle shop in Carlsbad. Sweet flavors of rasberries. Some bitterness and a little sour too. Pretty good.

Bottle from Total Wine. Pours a spritzy fingernail of dirty-maroonish head that reduces to a band of bubbles over a hazily, red/amber, bubble-rocketing body. The aroma of this beer is deliciously sour and reminiscent of vinous red fruits. Flavors are tart and sweet with raspberries coming through nicely and not overbearingly. Hints of wood, twigs, and grass as well. Light body and a high, champagne-like carbonation. Very refreshing and enjoyable.

BB June 2011. Mild haziness to a medium dark plum red body. Nose is bright, musty sugared raspberry, still retaining the true meat and pulp character of the fruit, along with a small note of plain yogurt. Moderate to light acidity, light prickliness, and a greenish flavor of stewed raspberries with some dull wood and caramelized berries. Has some flaws for sure but overall it’s drinkable and easy to enjoy.
Earlier Rating: 6/12/2006 Total Score: 3.7
Sampled from a 750ml bottle, vintage 2004
Consumed at the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation, Opstal, May 2006 (2 years cellared)
Murky purple and unsaturated red hued body. Nose is a sensational experience of seedy, woody raspberries, creamy and full in the nose. Prickly, peppery tasting, some brash and medicinal flavors, but the flavor just doesn’t like up to the nose, which is stellar. Creamy, milky framboise, I guess I would call this. Very good.

Appearance: Brownish red. Cloudy. Basically no head. Aroma: Raspberry, tort? Sour. Maybe flowery. Taste: Raspberry, but not overload. Pretty sour, quenching. Info: 375ml bottle, 4/12-2006, 118/500

Bottle: Hazy red pour with an off white/pinkish head. Smells of musty raspberry preserves, cranberry juice, oak, paper and other oxidized notes. Crisp, light body. Flavor has a cleansing tartness and raspberry preserves. Natural raspberry flavor along with a brief note of wild fermentation (a brief mild acidity). Musty notes of damp basement. A simple/sweet example of the style. Serves as an aperitif, and doesn’t stand to the complexity of the hardcore Fruit-Lambics.