Boon Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

This is a nice, dryish, tart lambic with some good flavour and it’s much more interesting and flavourful than their thin, bland kriek. It’s dark red, bubly, with a medium, faintly pinkish head that steadily shrinks to a thin top. The aroma is fruit, mostly raspberry but a little vague, bread, and a hint of iron. The taste is mostly tartness with a very light sourness, light yeassty quality, and light berry flavour. It’s tingly and rather dry with everything being a bit mild. It doesn’t have a strong tart berry flaovur or as much of a lambic quality as I was expecting but it’s still quite good and very crisp and refreshing.

Aroma is a bit funky, berry. Ruby color with nice light lacing. Flavor is sour raspberries, yeast, tart. Great desert lambic.

a decent framboise...like an inbetween beer from lindamans and lou peppe......a sweeter interpratatioin of the style but suprisingly not cloying....or at lest not as cloying as lindamans...good rasberry flavor..but I wish it had more funk baby!

Bottled - vintage 2000 sampled May 2008. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet and acidic with notes of raspberries - as though they are not quite ripe, which lends it an acidity. The flavor is sligtly acidic and tart and dominated by raspberries.
Earlier Rating: 9/23/2003 Total Score: 3.9
[Mine had the same name - different label and was only 5.0% ABV - is it the same beer?] A beutiful clear dark red beer with a beutiful pink head though fast disappearing. The aroma is very sweet with notes of cherries? in a framboise? and some sharp notes. The flavor starts rather sweet with good cherry notes (still weird in a framboise), but then the mold, vinegar, sharpness, and metal from the wild fermentation hits - running along the sides of the tongue. The balance between the sharpness and sweetness is unique. All in all a great beer.

375ml bottle from Delhaize. Deep pink colour with a slightly flecked head. Aroma of raspberries with some tartness. Dry flavour with some more fruit and a vaguely tart finish. All a bit subdued.

75 cL bottle. Pours hazy to pale red with a lacing white head. Light woody raspberry aroma. Medium sweet at first with a light wooden note turning into a light acidic note. Finish is light tart and delicate fruity. Light sulphorish note.
Earlier Rating: 7/5/2007 Total Score: 3.9
From 37.5 cL bottle. Pours reddish with light off-white head. Nice citric cherry aroma. Sweet and sour cherry flavoured. Rather dry. Dry cherry sour finish. Very nice.7-4-8-4-16=3.9

Bottle. [thank you, Ungstrup]
[at Yesprs tuesday tasting]
[vintage 2000]
Pours quite orange amber, a bit hazy. A frothy, small, off-white head on top. Aroma is lightly tart, subdued fruitiness. Fine, very dry mouthfeel. Flavour is pleasingly tart and dry, Very nice fruitiness. Still feels rather fresh. Wonderful.
Earlier Rating: 12/16/2007 Total Score: 3.4
Bottle, bought @ YNWA, Kolding.
[vintage 2006]
Pours a clear deep red, almost without any head. Aroma is sweet and very fruity, lots of winegums and raspberries. Well-rounded mouthfeel. Round flavour with oak, sweet fruit, barnyard and light tartness. Okay, but a little too boring.

Botella. Vintage 2000. Cloudy amber-red colour. Sweet bit stingy and sour sulphor fruity aroma. Good mouthfeel. Bitter, sweet and sour sulphor berry dry flavour. Sweet and sour fruity finish.
Earlier Rating: 3/27/2008 Total Score: 3.4
Bottle. Vintage 2003. Clear red-brown colour with lots of yeast at the bottom of the bottle and a small white bubbly head. Nice Fruity and mouldy bit sweet bit tart aroma. Good mouthfeel. Soft mild sweet raspberry flavour with a nice comfortable tartness with a touch of mould. Good, bit thin fruit lambiek.