Girardin Framboise

Brewed by Brouwerij Girardin
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Sint Ulriks-Kapelle, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Bottle from Bier circus - Brussels: Pink unclear with a off white head & fine lacings. Fruity, sweet, sour & inviting aroma. Taste is the same - again a pleasant sour touch making it balanced & fresh! Sticky end!

The sweetest of the Girardin beers (unless they have a Faro I don’t know about), but bear in mind that sweet is a relative word. The fruit flavours do begin to drown out some of the earthy lambic complexity. Thankfully, there is plenty to spare.

(Bottle) Pours a lightly hazy ruby body with a small white head. Aroma of sweet raspberry syrup. Flavor of raspberry syrup; sweet upfront, then finishes somewhat tart.

Bottle from Utobeer, Attractive scarlet colour with pink lasting head. Intense raspberry jam aroma. Expect it to be sicly sweet, but the hit of sourness that comes in later, balances it. Good integrated fruit. Real fruit flavour, not artificial. You can really taste the pips on this. Some vanilla raspberry ripple ice cream-esque. Wonderful quality fruit lambic

Bottle. Pours a nice brown-reddish colour with a big sligtly pinkish and off-white head. Sweet raspberry aroma. Tart raspberry flavor with some sweetness. Fruity sour finish.

Bottled
Pink-red color with small reddish head. Aroma of fresh rasberries, hints of cork or earth. Fizzy mouthfeel - with strong rasberry fruity flavors makes this a bit like soda pop. Some sourness, but not to extreme. Nice fruity aftertaste with light cellary notes. Light, balanced, even refreshing framboise lambic.

Bottle at ZBF 2008. Clear pink/red - white head. High raspberries, light synthetic, light acid, a bit like kids soda-pop, high drinkability, light white sugar.

(375ml bottle) Beige head atop a clear red-copper body. The dregs are quite syrupy, refusing to blend with the rest of the liquid. Aroma is sweet, raspberry, light syrup. Taste is medium sweet, definitely raspberry, tart, some sourness. Light body, light effervescence, acidity.

Bottle, 37.5cl, corked. A golden, clear body is topped by a small off-white head. Raspberry candy in the initial aroma, then lemon, red berries, some barnyard and horseblanket and a little sweetness blends in. Really pleasant, but the aroma is a bit dull in comparison. It’s mostly on the sour side, leaving the raspberries in the background. Ok, so raspberries are quite sour, but I think there’s something missing. Maybe the barnyard isn’t obvious enough? Sour, astringent mouthfeel, and a lasting finish following the path of the initial flavor. It lacks a bit on complexity, at least flavor wise, but it’s a quite lovely one. (090327)

11.2oz bottle @Jimmack Invitational–pours a light tan head and brown color. Aroma is raspberry, some medium malt. Taste is raspberry with some tartness, medium malt.