Brussels Framboos

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

Serve in Flute

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]

A very red unclear beer with a pink disapearing head. The aroma is a very sweet raspberry aroma - too sweet for my liking. The flavor is artificial raspberries - and too powerful of raspberries. Not a good interpretaion of a Framboise - even though the idea was Pierre Celis'.

UPDATED: JUN 12, 2005 (Bottle 25 cl) Pierre Celis is known as the man who reintroduced Belgian witbier in Hoegaarden, and since then he’s been a great innovator with several projects. This is one of them. A line of fruitbeers based on witbier. It’s been seen before, but with 30% fruit, this much be one of the fruitiest ones. Beautiful rose color and a rather handsome and stable head. Apparent raspberry-aroma and a strange sourness, that made me think of lambic. 080804

25 cL bottle. Pours hazy red with a lacing and light pink head. Aroma is sweet and acidic raspberry. Flavour is light sulphorish raspberry and mild fruity with a light acidic touch. Finish is mild sweet and dry sulphorish at once. Nice one.

Bottled at Pivovarsky Klub, Prague. Hazy reddish brown, small pink head. Fresh raspberry syrup aroma. Very sweet, yet with some freshsning acidity. Light bodied, but not thin. Some metal in the finish. More credible than most of these new wave low alcohol commercial Belgian fruit beers, but I still don’t understand why I should drink it again.

Bottled. Orangeish red colour with small head. Aroma is raspberries. Flavour is weak raspberry, and nothing else. Empty and very watery beer. Still it has a mouthdrying finish.

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.

Hazy red with large off white head with a pinkish glimt. Loads of raspberries in the aroma. Sweet and mild tart flavor with loads of raspberries. Refreshing stuff.