Liefmans Frambozenbier

Pours rich murky maroon with a mild beige head. Smell of fresh raspberry puree. Taste is perfectly, lightly sweet, noticeably tart and well balanced. Good rich body and perfect lightly bubbly carbonation. Very easy drinking and a fantastic tasting and all around beer. Will definitely get more of this!

Bière de couleur caramel avec des reflets cuivrés, donne une mousse beige et rosée moyenne mais très persistante. Arôme de framboise prononcé avec un caractère surette. Le goût est sucré et surette, fruité (framboises et fraise) avec un arrière-goût de confiture. Le palais est rond, velouté, crémeux et légèrement pétillant. Pas aussi vif qu’un Champagne, comme prétend la description commerciale, mais modérée, ce qui est à son avantage je crois. Très bonne bière de fruits, trouvé dans une épicerie haut de gamme (Corneau et Cantin). Superbe et accessible à la fois !

375ml bottle. Opaque brown colour with a slight hint of red. Next to no head. Pronounced raspberry aroma with some yeast. Flavour of sweet raspberry with some sourness and a dry finish. Very good.

Bottle purchased at Spirits RB. Pours a murky brown with slight ruby highlights around the far edges and an average size foamy white head that has just a hint of pink. Big sour raspbery aroma that is both sugary and sour at the same time. Light bodied with not much carbonation that is refreshing. Flavor is a drop off from the aroma and the raspberry flavor seems artificial like a package of Sweet-n-Low was used to give it sweetness. Overall an average beer that is nothing to seek out.

Why is this a sour and not a lambic? Doesn’t make much sense to me. I liked but didn’t love this beer. Yes, the fruit was there and was good, but it wasn’t an excellent example of the style. Tart raspberries with a hint of sour, lots of sweet. Little taste complexity, no finish...my bottle says 4% ABV.

2007 bottle sampled relatively fresh, upon rumors (ill-founded, I hope) of Liefmans’ bankruptcy.

Pours a pink-tinted murky brown with a long-lived tan head. Powerful raspberry syrup nose., delving deep I get a rich and lovely raspberry caramel with hints of vinegary sour. The flavor is very sweet, again a rich raspberry caramel dessert, tempered with a mellow and relatively mild malty sourness that works very well, before returning to the raspberry tartness on the long end of the flavor. Smooth mouthfeel is surprisingly rich for the 4.5%.

Tasty, sweet, highly accessible sour ale.

750ml Bottle. It pours a semi-cloudy burgundy with absolutely no head. The aroma is of sweet/sour raspberries. There is subtle carbonation to the tongue. As the brew hits the tongue, instantly there’s a weird funk. I can’t exactly describe that flavour since it doesn’t last long enough for me to examine it. Soon after, sweet yet tart raspberry becomes completely dominant. The flavour inherits a caramelly sweetness as the brew leaves the tongue. A light bitterness bites your taste buds in the somewhat dry finish.

Draft at Max’s (Fell’s Point). Poured Brownish Red with a smooth white head. Great Raspberry aroma and a hint of a funky good yeast. Taste is not too tart raspberry with a hint of raison. Very drinkable and probably very good with a chocolate cake.