 detroitsteel (208), England
Feb 19, 2007
On draught at The Dove, Broadway Market, E2. Deep rich ruby red in the glass with a thick head that evapourated leaving a fine lacing. Jammy aroma with some yeastyness. Very fruity - jam and berrys, the taste of a good autum fruit compote. It has a suprisingly dry finish that makes this beer very crisp and refreshing. The glass I had was also very highly carbonated, but this was probably the bar’s doing. I really enjoyed this beer and passed up the chance to sample a different brew for another glass of this. Nice that a bar 1 min’s walk away serves this!
MJ_GG (97), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Apr 20, 2008 Bouteille verte et enveloppée de 375 ml. Arômes sucrés de framboises et de bois. Robe brune et trouble, légèrement teintée de rouge. L’effervescence est très fine et rappelle le champagne. Assez ronde en bouche, le sucré et l’acidité des framboises se marient bien avec l’aigreur de la bière. Un style trop peu disponible au Québec.
Adenila (551), Denmark
Apr 2, 2008 I get confused when the berries in the picture looks more like strawberries than rasberries, but this is the right beer. Dark red, almost purple, and therefore looked goo in the wineglass it was served with. Aroma of natrual acidic rasberries. Flavor is sour in the acidic/tart way, which i really enjoy, and i therefore find it extremly refreshing.
lovemyipas (403), sw burbs, Illinois, USA
Mar 31, 2008 pours a weird and wild very dark caramel color with a one finger bubbly tan head. aroma is some nice dark sweet raspberries with seeds. has a medium body with good lacing and carbonation. flavor is the same as aroma with a little tartness to it. the seed taste is a touch annoying at the end but all in all pretty good. i think i like the kriekbier better though. as it warms the aroma does get better. flavor is good from beging to middle but dies off after that and the seedy taste kicks in.
Tranquillity (973), Espoo, Finland
Mar 25, 2008 Brown hazy, small beige head. Aroma of framboise, but not strong. Taste a bit of sweetener, not too strong though. Average framboize, but not fantastic.
FlacoAlto (1914), Tucson, Arizona, USA
Mar 21, 2008 Best By Date November 2015; Sampled March 2008,br>
Pours with a frothy, almost two-finger thick, light tan colored head that sits on top of a murky dark, concentrated plum colored beer that shows a lightly hazed, cranberry red color when held up to the light. The aroma is quite raspberry driven; pulpy, raspberry aromatics jump out at me as I pour this beer and are only concentrated and amplified upon further inspection. To be honest I can’t smell anything but raspberry; thankfully the raspberry character is quite fresh smelling and is not in any way artificial smelling.
Sweet tasting, though not syrupy; it is sweet like a lightly watered down fruit juice. A slight nuttiness / seed character is noticed just before a solid, fleshy raspberry flavor kicks in. Interesting, because I was not expecting it, just like the aroma, this has very little flavor to it that reminds me at all of beer; malt, hop even funk and fermentation derived sourness are all drowned out by the dominant, though perhaps not overwhelming raspberry character.
This really does taste a lot like a fruit juice; it is quite refreshing and really doesn’t seem like it has any alcohol to it. It practically disappears, it is so easy to drink. I have a hard time thinking of this as beer though.
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