Girardin Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Bottled: LIght hazy red coloured. Dense beige lasting head. Head has a light red touch. Raspberries and a light sourness in the aroma. NIce. Flavour has a pleasant sourish fruitsweetness. Wood and tart note, though not as obvious as in other lambics from this fine brewery. Quite refreshing and cleansing. A nice treat.

Bottle… Hazy ruby ale with a small, creamy, white head. Raspberry Jolly Rancher-sweet aroma with lesser notes of black tea and simple syrup. The flavor offers up good balance although it does lean slightly toward the sour. Good fruity sweetness and moderate bitterness. Nothing sharp… pleasantly dull around the edges. Medium-bodied with an abrasive mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Sweet and tart finish.Thanks to boboski for supplying the bottle!

Bottled, Filtered?. Brown pink with pink fluffy head. Slightly better than normal fruit beer, forced Raspberry almost pear drop, and certainly sweet. More like drinking Dentist mouthwash.

amber colour, pratically no head, very strong raspberry aroma, sparkling, acid and sweet, sour finish

UPDATED: APR 3, 2008 A Mes rate: Bottle from the Belgian Belly.
I must be honest right away and say I was expecting more from this one. That said it is very good stuff all the same. Where is the sour funk and barnyard from the wonderful kriek? So far, and I am sure this will change, the best framboise I have had is the Boon. This was not quite as good. I am quite sad. Ok doom and gloom over. All said and done, it’s a fruit beer, tastes great, lovely framboise nose to finish. Very nice but not genius

I'm not often a fan of Belgian fruit beers (Kriek excepted), or any fruit beers for that matter, as too many are made in a commercial style and end up sickly sweet. Well, this certainly does have some sweetness, but this is tempered by the tart acidic notes that come from using a decent lambic as the base. Still not my favourite style, but one of the better examples that I have experienced. Bottled, London Drinker beer festival.

Bottle. Red-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is raspberry, candy. Flavour is raspberry, sour, sweet, yeast. Nice beer.

Künstlicher und recht süßer Geruchm der sich im Geschmack zumindest zu Beginn erst einmal nicht bestätigt. Geringe aber im Vordergrund stehende Säuerlichkeit. Die dahinter stehenden Himbeernoten wirken dann aber doch in weiten Teilen künstlich, trocken, am Ende pappig. 7/10/11/8/6/8

Bottle. Poured a reddish-brown color with a small sized red/pink head. Aromas of fresh-juicy-hairy raspberries, cranberries, and also reminded me of Kool-Aid (in a good way!). I really like the berry quality in the aromas. Tastes of tart raspberries, all around berries, and some wood. Lightly tart finish.

Deep pink colour. Aroma is quite sweet and loaded with juicy raspberry aroma. Not a lot of stuff going on in here... fruity sweetness. Quite candyish and sweet. Pretty simple really.