Bullfrog Frambozen

Brewed by Bullfrog Brewery
Style: Sour Ale
Williamsport, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle via trade shared at paytoplay’s tasting last weekend. Pours pink with a tan head. Nose is nice with razziness. Taste is sweet, razzy pretty good, very interesting overall.

Bottle. Pours muddy blood orange, thick manly ring of slightly orange tinted off-white head. Nose is robust raspberries, stinging sourness, and a sweet underlying funkiness akin to a simple syrup soaked bandage, feet, and a slice or 3 of some nutty cheese. Sweet, subtly tart raspberry flavors with a little cheese added to the mix. LIghter bodied with more crispness than serious body, but not novel. The raspberry notes are nice and dry, the mouthfeel spritzy. i dig.

750ml corked and bailed shared by scrizzz. Pours a murky light brown with a pinkish tint. Really fruity and tart secondly up front. A ’refined’ or ’clean’ funk, if that makes any sense, once I get past the green strawberry and peach fruit. A bit of mild cheesiness is also making a play. Somewhat tart and lightly fruity up front with some band aid flavor, goes into some hints of wheat and vinegar that finishes up with green berry and tart apple. Deffinetly some buggy wood flavors going on, but just kind of unrefined and somewhat ’messy’ in my opinion. Not like it is difficult to drink, but nothin spectacular. Thanks Clint.

750ml corked bottle
Thanks to Mike for sharing this on a quiet Friday evening. It is a solid well crafted sour beer. There are some better ones out there and a few are more accessible but on the whole this may be worth sampling if you are a sourhead. Probably one of the better beers opened during the night it was a great way to kickstart a tasting.

Aroma / Appearance - The foamy head was the only distraction. Otherwise the cherry red body glowed under the lights as it moved gracefully around the glass. The nose was pure tart raspberry sourness with less vanilla than one would expect. This one has definitely hit an intensity that makes it perfect.

Flavor / Palate - The taste of sour raspberries filled the mouth with a slightly dry mouthfeel that comes from the acidity. Not very complicated it gets right to the point and then stays there as it drifts down the throat. Well rounded and balanced nonetheless, this was a fantastic sour that I wish was more accessible without driving several hours to the middle of Pennsylvania.

Bottle pours reddish color with white head. Aroma is fruit, funk, acid, barnyard, leather, and more fruit. This smells really good. And really fruity. Mouthfeel is moldy. Flavor is upfront tart raspberry, woody, tart, funky, tasty. This is a well balanced beer. All the flavors play off each other like a harmony of beauty. Its not over the top tart. Its just right. This is easily the best beer I’ve tried from this brewery. Nicely done.

25 oz bottle, shared at BCTC. Pours a pinkish red body with a short lived small fizzy head. Tart and sour raspberry nose with some brett and lighter balsamic vinegar. Some light lambic-like funky cheesy quality. The flavor was much the same, tart, vinegary, and sour with a nice dry seedy raspberry fruitiness. Very dry crisp finish with a bit more oak than some of their other sours. Nice fizzy effervescent carbonation that cut thru the acidity pretty well. One of the better Bullfrog Sours.

750 ml bottle at WTF OMG! tasting courtesy tpd975. Pours a hazy amber color with a pinkish hue topped by a small, foamy white head that settles quickly to a thin film. The aroma shows sweet and tart raspberries, oak. soured dark fruit, and some funky yeast. The flavor follows with sweet raspberries up front and then some tart berries and oak tannins. The oak imparts some signature vanilla that sweetens things up followed by some bretty funk and earthy characters. Not as tart from the raspberries as I would have thought, but still a nice enough flavor. Medium bodied with ample carbonation and a dry, tart fruity finish. Not bad, but not as sour as I was expecting.

This super-rare bottle was shared by bring on BA - thanks, Barry! The Bullfrog mafia hyped this beer up like crazy, and it was in fact pretty solid. Deep slightly hazy red color with a small white head. Aroma is tart with fresh raspberry and oak. Flavor is fresh sour raspberries, oak, vanilla, and some funk. Body is medium with a sharp acidic bite and fairly high carbonation. A good sour but not a game-changer.