Liefmans Frambozenbier

2004 cork date. Hazy copper color with a tan head. A strong raspberry jam aroma overpowers all others. Light carbonation with a smooth mouthfeel. taste is first raspberry then a mildly tart, dry wheat flavor with wood to finish. Heavy on the sweet flavors. 3267

On tap at Max’s Taphouse in Baltimore during Belgian fest. Got this one for the girlfriend but it was surprisingly balanced. Looks, tastes and smells like raspberries. Slight malt offsets the sweet fruit flavor. Finish keeps the fruity flavor in the mouth. More balanced than other lambics you might have had.

Bottle. Clear medium amber red color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, roasted, sour, moderate to light heavy raspberry, wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light sour with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (110208)

Brown with a bit of ruby. Small off white head. Juicy sour raspberry aroma. Same flavor with some tartness and a subtle toasty malt background. Finishes dry. Foamy yet soft medium body. Decent.

2008/01/28 - Pours dark reddish amber with a fully receding off-white. Aroma of raspberry, cherry, and sour fruits. Taste of raspberry, tart berries, barnyard, and lightly sweet. Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied with a dry finish. Pretty tasty.
Ar 7 Ap 4 Fl 7 Mf 5 Ov 16

2009/09/19 - 2003 bottle from Party Mart. Pours reddish purple with no head. Taste of raspberry, mildly sweet, grape, berry lemonade, lightly tart/sour, and mildly acidic. Thin bodied with mild fizzy carbonation.
Ar 8 Ap 3 Ta 7 Mf 4 Ov 15

Bottle in Pikkulintu, Helsinki- Dark red in colour with a lovely raspberry aroma. Raspberry is also strongly present in the taste which has a good sweet and sour balance. Very nice although it would be interesting to see how much of this is actually natural raspberry!

So, I heard this brewery is going out of business, so I scooped up a few bottles of their stuff. This beer, from a paper wrapped, 355 ml bottle with cork, poured a ruby bruin with a fluffy off-white head. Nose of sweet and sour raspberries and delicious natural candy. Fresh, crisp and clean. Even after aging since 2006, this beer was prime. Lots of chunkage around the mouth of the bottle. Not puckering sour, but just right. And the sweetness, quite balanced. Yum!

Protectively paper wrapped caged corked 355 ml. green bottle, (2.005) on the cork, best before date on the cap (NOV2015), sampled in a snifter. L: Reddish tarnished bronze with a compact unbleached beige head of sudsy foam that settled into a thin bubbly lacing. Light amounts of sticky lace. S: An explosion of fresh raspberries, sweet and tart, quite juicy smelling. A mildly tangy yeastiness and hints of sugar. F&T: A nice syrupy feel in mouth, slick on the tongue, softly crisp and dry. This strikes a near perfect balance between the sweet and sour of pureed raspberry. Mildly sweet and tart raspberries with a little seediness, and a light underflow of softly sour raspberry syrup. Lingering traces of sugary raspberry juice in the aftertaste. No trait overwhelms the other, everything is in sweet harmony.