Chapeau Framboise

Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

25 cL bottle. Pours dark brown/amber with light red head. Heavy raspberry aroma, sweet/citric. Very sweet raspberry flavoured with a woody edge. Goes into a very citric finish and goes completely citric-dry. Nice and very fruity.

Date: 02/14/1996
Mode: Bottle
Source: Greens

red-orange in color, sudsy head, sweet raspberry aroma, high carbonation, sweet raspberry flavo with a tart aftertaste

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Score: **4
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A cloudy dark red pour resembles a looming stormfront, even in the confines of the glass. No head, though carbonation is evident. The nose is of raspberries, overripe and just slightly tart. Hints of spontaneous fermentation - a light bacterial funk - seep out, along with white vinegar, earthy notes and sugars. The flavor is rather enjoyable, hints of the lambic base revealing themselves much to my delight. The reality of each sip is a raspberry puree enhanced by a slight tartness, unused sugars, more sugars and yeast added at bottling and a lightly acidic core. Finishes closer to some semblance of balance, more tartness squeezing out amongst the powerfully sweet fruit. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, sticky and lightly carbonated, not too far from a less domesticated variety of the style. Not bad, but certainly not worth buying.

Like a nice raspberry puree with wild yeast to give that extra kick. The flavor is sweet and tart, the look is dark ruby red and the flavor goes all around.

The aroma has raspberries, wild yeast, and sugar. The appearance is deep red and hazy with a super thin head. The flavor is like the aroma and quite tart. The palate is thin. Overall this is what you would expect from the style.

Bottle. Creamy sligtly pink mostly deminishing head. Dark red wonderfull colour. Powerfull nice raspberry aroma and flavor. Very sweet and acetic n(from the berries) Average finisah. Syruply palate. I still really like raspberry and this is nice.

25cL. A fine lambic but not my favorite style. No overpowering fruit flavor.

Bottle courtesy of dragonstout. Thanks! Pours a dark red/brown and nearly still with some sparse carbonation. Smells strongly of raspberries with hints of sweet and tarteness. Tastes buttery and fruity like a syruppy strong fruit beer with hints of lambic in the background.