Lindemans Framboise

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Not the most prestigious of fruit lambics, but a personal favourite. Dark plum brown-red pour. Obvious raspberry but also some hints of other dark stone fruits. Satisfying tartness and lacto/brett sour tang. Mild sweetness - not syrupy and cloying like other cheap "lambic" concoctions. Medium to high carbonation.

Pour is a deep purplish pour, with a small pink head, which quickly turns to a ring. Nose is of raspberries, as is the taste, simple, yet enjoyable.

I almost don’t consider this a beer, it’s so sweet. But it smells good and goes down easily (even if it can be cloyingly sweet). Bonus points since the wife absolutely loves it.

Dark red pour with a small pink head. Aroma is raspberry jam. Taste is raspberry jam as well with a high carbonation, all other flavors being blocked out. Sweet beer with a sour tart bite that blend nicely. Good beer, a little higher abv would be nice though.

I prefer their Cassis because it has an amazing aftertaste, This one is great too, almost too sweet but it isn’t. The sour and sweet mix well. Bottle from Bert’s Bierhuis in Utrecht.

Poured like carbonated grape juice into my glass. A little head that dissipates rapidly. It’s a pretty dark red color. Aroma of raspberries and tastes of the same and a hint of darker flavors like plum. Sweet. I’m not sure there’s much alcohol to speak of. There was no hops that I could detect and the malt if anything just provided some substance, I couldn’t actually taste any. The finish is a bit tart and acidic, but good.

Bottle. Dark red with a quickly dissipating head. Aroma is a combination of sweet and sour raspberries - this is the smell of spring! Taste is naturally also dominated by raspberries, the sweetness is a bit lower than in other Lindemans fruit lambics, the finish is moderately dry with the light sourness lingering for a long time after. Great fruit lambic!

Probably overrated by just about everyone and undeserving of the various accolades due to its uniqueness and one time rarity in the United States. When you get down to pure taste over hype, ask yourself if you’d want to drink more than one in a sitting. Far too fruity in taste, and the bubbles blow away any other subtleties you might want to recognize.