Lindemans Framboise

This used to be a regular on the roster until I got into lambic properly, sadly I made no notes, so here I go again...Bottle from Quaffs. Pours an opaque blood red with a rocky pink foam, you can really smell the sweetness as it comes out of the bottle. The nose is intensely sweet with raspberry syrup and a trace amount of lambic funk. In it’s defense it does have some slight raspberry pippyness but it’s just not enough to save it. Taste is much the same, kinda like artificially sweetened raspberry pop but more syrupy. It’s not awful but the fact it’s taken me about an hour to drink doesn’t say much for it.

Bottle. The prettiest beer I have ever seen. Pours a dark red with a majestic pink, creamy head. Ah, luxurious. Aroma so wonderful, of tart raspberries. Flavor of sweet raspberries, some sourness squeaks by. Not too sour and not too sweet. Something everyone must try. Once upon a time, my favorite beer.

On tap at Mellow Mushroom in Tampa. Pours bright ruby red with weak white head. The aroma is pungent with sweet sugary candied raspberries and cherries with a meek background of sugar tart candy. Man, this smells sweet. The taste is a load of sugar sweet raspberry and sweet cane sugar. I get a faint fruit tartness in the background. Basically tastes like over sweetened syrupy soda.

Being this my first lambic, it was a bit of a surprise, I must admit. Pours a dark magenta with a pink-purple head. Aroma is strong raspberries. Flavor is very much the same. Sweet, and tart and very fruity. Not really much in terms of "beer" taste. Really moreso that of wine or just juice. Definitely different for me. It’s good...a bit too sweet for me though. And I can’t help but feel a bit less manly drinking this.

Intense raspberry Jello on the nose. Slightly hazy blood orange color with a fluffy pink head that lasts forever. Intensely sweet raspberries, with a nice sour finish for balance. Well-carbonated and has a mouth feel like chewing fresh raspberries, yet finishes clean.

(25cl bottle) Hazy, red coloured hue with a medium-sized, slowly lacing pink foamy head. Sweet, slightly syrupy and strong raspberry-fruity nose with a light acidic background. Sour and slightly sweet flavour, light bodied with a well-carbonated mouthfeel. Acidic raspberry-fruity taste with a faint lambic-character; sourish and slightly sweet and syrupy fruity finish. Truly nice, although not that elaborated fruit lambic (30.03.08).

Red color with a pink head. Sweet with a strong raspberry flavor. Good as lambics go. Tastes more like a dessert than a beer. Not something you want to drink more than one of at a time, but enjoyable.

Pink with a low head. Aroma of raspberries and sugar. The flavour is very sweet - the complete opposite of for example Cantillion - with a lot of sugar, raspbeery and a bit of acidity.