Boon Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Stem glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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1997 Vintage: Pinkish orange, fairly still. Aroma: tart raspberries spilled over a barn floor covered with sawdust and hay. Pretty mild flavoured lambic, very good fruit lambic - not too sugary, the flavour is much better than the ones that use syrup. . .but I was craving more from the barn, not quite enough musty cobwebs. Wow, just had the last sip - amazing, big mouth full from the barn, this one just got raised a point.

UPDATED: FEB 9, 2003 1997 vintage in February 2003. Pours a dark pink/red color with a light pink head. The aroma is quite noticably raspberry, but with pleasant perfume and flowers in attendance. The flavor is rather sweet--mostly raspberry with a touch of the common lambic elements. A little musty and sour, but not to the traditional level. Very mellow and flavorful, but much more fruit than gueuze. I think that's a good thing.

Reddish brown pour with no head.Very tart sour nose. Wow not as tart or sour when you drink it. Sweet raspberry flavor with a little lambic funkiness. Very interesting brew.

Looks like hazy cranberry juice. Mostly diminishing head, leaving a nice lace pattern. Tart sweet nose. Nice mouthfeel, raspberry, bandaid, very pleasant and well balanced lambic. A normal Boon that is pretty decent.

A nice lambic. I didn’t think that this had as much flavor as the Lindemans Frambroise. This was a little more champagney with a lttle less fruit flavor.

1997 vintage, tasted November 2002. Raspberries dominate the nose, and overwhelm the flavor. Quite sweet, not enough sourness to balance things out. Comes off rather like an old Dannon yogurt raspberry popsicle.

Very tasty, the raspberies were very pronounced. A solid buy, but not better than lindermans

UPDATED: JUN 20, 2004 1986 Vintage @ Delilah's Lambic Festival Chicago: Much lighter in all aspects than the 1995 version I have tried. Much sweeter with a tart pie cherry nose. Incredible sour flavors, but completely mellowed out to produce a nice lasting finish. Simply incredible. 1995: Dark fruit tones with a musty, malt nose. Dark sugar notes with a subtler, yet light sour balance.
Earlier Rating: 10/22/2002 Total Score: 3.6
Heavy malt nose. Fruity and sweet. A tart bitterness. Fairly good lambic.

Although Boon generally disappoints me, this Framboise is a quality product with enough fruity essence that it’s a pleasure to drink. Fairly sweet and dark-looking in the glass. Not unlike Lindeman’s Cassis. Bit bitter in the finish.

Dry, sour and oaky, with the raspberries more of a hint instead of the dominating flavor. Pours with a massive, well retained head, and with little black chunks towards the bottom that might be yeast or actual rasperry chunks. Very tart and gueuze like, even more so that Boon’s plain gueze.