Lindemans Framboise

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

The beer pours a beautiful reddish purple into an oversized wine glass. It looks like liquid raspberries. A nice layer of mauve colored foam caps this beer, and remains throughout the glass. The aroma is unbelieveable. It smells like a bowl of fresh picked raspberries. Sweet, tangy, fresh. My mouth is watering. The taste doesn’t disappoint. It really blows me away. Surprisingly, it’s not nearly as sweet as one would expect. It reminds me of fresh pressed raspberries, freshly picked and juiced. Someone has finally figured out how to capture fresh fruit in a liquid form. Mouthfeel is fairly carbonated, and tingles the tongue. The tartness comes through and cleans the palate nicely after each sip. Overall, extremely drinkable. This is not a style of beer that I could sit and drink all afternoon, however as an apertif or with dessert it doesn’t get much better.

Bottle- Vintage- Center City Philadelphia. Pours a reddish coloring with very slight head. Smells/ flavors were definitely full of berries. Pretty enjoyable, but goes down really really fast if your a dark beer drinker. It was enjoyable, but only once in a while due to price.

Bottle and tap, with no remarkable differences in my opinion. This one gets a lot of flack for being a "chick beer," but this is such a well-crafted beer that it’s hard to say anything bad about it. While a lambic sometimes needs an acquired taste, the addition of (in this case) raspberries really make this one smooth, fruity and totally enjoyable. Fairly tart, fairly effervescent, without being in any kind of extreme.

12 oz. bottle, and a heavy bottle at that. Pours a deep violet with a dark rose colored head that dissipates quickly. Very nice looking. The aroma was loaded with raspberries. The flavor followed suit, heavy on the raspberry, with some grape, very sweet, but what was really enjoyable to me was the sour overtones. Light to medium bodied with some carbonation. Nice sour aftertaste. Reminded me of sparkling grape juice, but with a rasperry theme. This is my first lambic-fruit beer, and it was very delicious to me. A new style that I really like so far. I will probably re-rate after sampling some others however.

it is ok....nice raspberry flavor...but.......for a lambic......it is not great....sad how they add so much sugar to this beer! makes it syrupy..and a sad representation of the lambic style

Pour was purple with pinkish head, decent lacing. Huge aroma of raspberries. The first sip was striking...man, that’s a lot of raspberries. It makes New Glarus Raspberry Tart seem tame. Really, really sweet, difficult to drink with mild sour lambic notes...very mild. Hardly "beerlike" at all...just sweet raspberry mash. A little too much.

Bottle. Dark red, pinkish head. Aroma and taste sweet berry. Good drink as a change of pace.

Bottle. Deep red with pink head. Aroma and taste of raspberry sherbet. Very drinkable, but somewhat sweet for a lambic.