Chapeau Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

(375ml bottle) pours deep opaque ruby red with chunky yeast bits and a ring of pinkish head around the rim. Nose of raspberry licquer, syrup, currants, plum and other fruits. Very sweet. Taste is also sweet but pleasingly tartish, raspberries, and reminds me of those chocolates at Christmas with the raspberry flavor inside. Syrupy sweet finish. Nothing really WRONG with this aside from the sweet syrupy aspects. I would drink it again.

Bottle. By far the best of the fruit Chapeau’s that I have tried. This one I can actually put down a full 4oz sample. Not as worried about possibly developing diabetes from this, but it is still very sweet. Pours a deep red color with a small white head. Aroma of dark chocolate, raspberry liquor, somewhat fresh, L’Ami Provencal Raspberry candies, fruit punch. Taste is sweet, shockingly some real raspberry flavor (!!), fizzy.

Sample at tasting. Creamy red pour with a bubbly pinkish head that doesn’t last long. Nose is very sweet with lots of raspberries and virtually no acidity. Ditto the flavour, almost candy-like sweetness with the raspberries overriding all other flavours; very few lambic qualities. Slightly syrupy mouthfeel with moderate to high carbonation and a lingering sweet finish. Not too bad for a soft drink but not great for a beer.

Deep dark purple pour with little brown raspberry puree sentiment. Nose is raspberry sorbet. Very strong. Taste is very sweet raspberry, almost juice like. More sweet than sour as is the case for most De Troch Chapeaus.

25 cl bottle, shared with Roger and Bjørnar. Hazy reddish brown color, pink disappering head. Aroma has lots of raspberry. Flavor is raspberry, sweetness, hints of wood/oak. Refreshing, but a bit too much on the sweet side.

Bouteille, autre produit de Chapeau spécialiste des lambic (sic) au jus de fruit. Bière très agréable en bouche, douce, du bonbon, plus vers le twister, shandy, ou autre boisson alcoolisée fruitée. se boit à grande lampé.

Wow. smell is excellent. fruity, juicy plums, pears and raspberries. Sweet. The best of the chapeau pseudo-sours.

Bottle from Dranken Geers. Some pippy raspberry but also raspberry jam too on the aroma. Just way too sweet in the mouth, it almost hurts, but in a bad way. Sweetness just makes it too artificial and too jammy. No unpleasant flavours mind. Like all these fruit lambics, just overly sweet and artificial.