Boon Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Light head and strawberry colour, nose is dry raspberry/strawberry fruit - like a Liqueur de Framboise. very fullbodied, spritzig and some length, Taste is raspberry, rasbperry and raspberry. Nice and easy to drink

Geruchsaromen himbeerig-säuerlich, holzig. Im Geschmack zuerst himbeerig und entäuschend wässrig. Nach kurzer Gewöhnung wird das Bier immer vollmundiger und Lambic-betonter mit trockenem Abgang. Ein Framboise, das einer gewissen Kenntnis bedarf, da der Lambiccharakter (sauer) sehr zum Tragen kommt. Ein ausdrucksstarkes Bier ohne Übersüßung.Test vom 1.3.2007, Gebinde: Glasflasche

2009 Bottle, 5% at the Spread Eagle, Croydon. It pours slight hazy, deep red-purple, with a light pink head and lively carbonation. The nose is raspberry and cream, red grape, cherry and fresh cut grass. It tastes of tart and juicy raspberry, light astringency, cherry, red grape, metal, wood and spinach. It is well balanced and overall quite tangy and sour. It has a foamy mouth-feel and finishes on a juicy cherry note. A decent framboise.

Pour is dark ruby, with a light pink head that retains on the average side. Fine bubbled, and no lacing present here. Finally, some funk, albeit on the mild side on the nose; Raspberries are clearly present here as well, coupled with a base earthiness from the oak. Raspberry jam, lemon rind, hay, funk, oak - the middle of the brew is lacking a bit in my opinion, but this isn’t bad at all.

Thanks to Todd for a slightly less vintage treat: merely an ’04 lambic. Kind of a dingy, hazy brown pour. Medium bubbles, thinnish body. Nose is fairly sweet, with a hint of an acetic quality. Taste is guts of the berry, a smoothie poured into a lambic perhaps. Mild oak on the finish.

Bottle at Amundsen. Sweet fruit, some sourness underneath, but that is largely hidden by the raspeberries and sugar.

Older bottle (2004) shared by OldStyleCubFan. Pours reddish pink with orange hues. Not much head. Just a hint of sourness if any... more raspberry syrup. Not terrible, but meh.

Amber-ruddy pour. The nose is loaded with bright raspberry. A little bit of light corkiness on the back. Fairly simple beer. Showing a little bit of oxidation but not a lot of complexity. A fairly simple sort of confection. It certainly isn’t what it’s namesake gueuze is. Very jammy.