Brussels Framboos

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Fruit Beer
Ertvelde, Belgium

Serve in Flute

Pink. Raspberry. Gay. Not much to it. (This beer rating was imported from FB and unfortunately lacks any further comments.)

Muddy brown coloured body with a fast-dying off-white head and no movement detected. Aroma of strong sweet raspberries, a touch of tartness, some light malt and a sliver of alcohol - mostly sweet though. Medium-bodied; Assertive effervescence with a linering acidic and sour note - potent and strong. Great sweet flavour with some grassy and herbal notes, a touch of icing sugar and a very potent raspberry flavour that cannot be missed. Overall, a surprisingly good (given the rating) framboise fruit beer that I would actually sample again, that is, if I could find it on this side of the pond. I sampled this 25 cL bottle purchased at Beer Mania in Bruxelles, Belgium on 17-November-2008, sampled at home on 11-February-2011 in Washington.

Bottle 250ml.Pours clear red with a pink head.Aroma of raspberries and candy sugar.Sweet and sour with lots of raspberries .Medium body,hard carbonation.

Bottle. A slightly unclear, dark red beer capped by a small off-white pinkish head. Raspberries in the aroma, with lemony hints. Quite sugary. The flavor is sweet, yet very lemony sour, and with a good dash of raspberry candy. Raspberries in the finish. Medium-bodied mouthfeel, both dry and stickysweet. Overall, there’s a nice lemony sourness in it, but it’s too sweet, and there’s actually too much of the lemony sourness, I would like some funk instead. 100106

Bottle. Red colour with a pink head. Aroma is sour, raspberry. Flavour is sweet, sourness, raspberry, sugar. Nice fruit beer.

Bottle, 3.5%. Very distinct raspberry aroma, smells quite sweet, but perhaps also has a little fruity citricity. Clear dark red colour with some brown in it. Big stable pink head. The flavour is very sweet, has a lot of raspberry. Also a good acidic note to balance off the sweetness, which it does not quite do, of course. Could have been a lot worse.

Bottle 25cl. @ home.
Clear medium red color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white pink red head. Aroma is tart, sour, raspberry. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090314]

thin red ... thin pink lacing ... light sweet raspberry nose ... sweet fruity raspberry with a light rasp tartness in the linger