Liefmans Frambozenbier

Formerly brewed at Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Sour Ale
Oudenaarde, Belgium

She smell like raspberry juice who is are really inviting but the taste disapointing me because it taste just a litle bit fruity and after theres nothing

375 ml corked bottle, champagne-style. Bought at Selfridge’s, London. ABV was 4.5%. Hazy reddish brown colour, pours with an impressive large tan head with a pinkish hue. Aroma is overwhelming ripe (over-ripe?) raspberries. Flavour is of course raspberries on a background of sourish brown ale (’cause that’s what this beer really is), but not as sour as I expected. Fairly sweet, but not cloying. Hints of cowshed. I wonder what this beer would taste like if the raspberries used had been less ripe - probably "fresher" and more sour and tart. As it is, it’s a drinkable and interesting fruit beer, but would hardly be my daily indulgence even if it had been available in Norway.

Aroma of raspberries (go figure). Appears hazy brown, the color of preserved dates. Small ceamy head of very fine bubbles. Flavor starts light and sweet, subdued aged raspberries, almost like preserves. Flavor finishes with mild tell-tale horse blanket. Palate is thin and light with some bubbliness but not a lot. Overall, this beer is much greater than the sum of its parts. Perhaps I am a fan of the style, and didn’t even know it. :-)

great aroma, taste is complex, a little bit sour, rasperries come to you quite obvious ofcourse, tart, smooth ... nice

Sweet lambic like Lindemans. Cider like with a little funk. It’s almost like fermented grape juice

Bottle. Troubled brownish red color with thin white head. Sourish rasberry aroma. High carbonation, very sour and rasberry taste. The kriekbier (cherry) is better and more balanced. Bière de couleur brun rouge trouble avec un mince collet blanc. Odeur de framboise, surette. Très élevé en gaz carbonique. très surette (attaque la langue), gout de framboise. Elle est moin bonne et moin bien balancé que la liefmans au cerise

Had this at The Old Toad in Rochester, New York. Poured a dark ruby with a small fizzy white head. Aroma is very tart raspberries. Flavor was tart with a sharp acidic bite, with a touch of raspberries mixed in. Very refreshing.

Pours a reddish brown. Aroma is of (what else?) raspberries. Tastes also of raspberries, but not overly sweet. One for me to try again.