Flat Framboos

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Message _angst_ P beers 5019 º places 97 º 03:23 Mon 6/1/2015 Hi! Got lucky enough to once again try 3 Fonteinen Framboos this Friday and we were sad to detect that it was completely flat. Just curious if anyone else have experienced this or if this bottle was a dud with a most likely leaking cork? This was the most recent 2014 vintage. Cheers! Alex
Message ElManana beers 2078 º places 3 º 03:58 Mon 6/1/2015 Mine was flat too. I see the ratings on RB all saying quite the same. No idea if this is supposed to be like this.
Message 77ships P beers 14200 º places 917 º 04:37 Mon 6/1/2015 Both bottles of 2014 Version I have tried so far were basically flat. Perfectly fine for a fruit lambiek in my opinion.
Message _angst_ P beers 5019 º places 97 º 04:46 Mon 6/1/2015 It was still perfectly fine as a fruit lambic with a nice raspberry presence and some suitable funk in the taste but having tried the last vintage before this one that wasn’t flat I can say that it’s a completely different and not as good experience. Fairly dead in the nose and not as liveley and bursting of fruits and funk as that vintage.

Message MannyGoldberg beers 208 º places 31 º 05:24 Mon 6/1/2015 Isn’t the general consensus that 2014 needs a few more years to develop? Pretty sure I heard people saying similar things about 2011 when it came out.
Message MagicDave6 P beers 1 º places 1 º 05:40 Mon 6/1/2015 Originally posted by MannyGoldberg Isn’t the general consensus that 2014 needs a few more years to develop? Pretty sure I heard people saying similar things about 2011 when it came out. The 2011 should have been had fresh. Iv had it twice in the last 18 months and its gone wayyyy downhill.
Message _angst_ P beers 5019 º places 97 º 06:06 Mon 6/1/2015 Not sure how much sugar is left to improve carbonation over time. Don’t get me wrong. The beer is great but it was a pity it was flat and it seems it’s not just our bottle that had this "problem".
Message AdamChandler P beers 6124 º places 278 º 08:03 Mon 6/1/2015 Flat is fine with me but anyone that wants carbonation, just wait 1 more year. I’ve had supposedly flat lambiek carbonate after 5 years in the bottle. Sometimes, it just needs time. Something worth inquiring to 3F though.

Message TimE P beers 8459 º places 409 º 08:16 Mon 6/1/2015 I just asked Tomme Arthur and he said its an English Barleywine style fruit Lambic and it is supposed to be like that. To those of you that believe flat, bottle conditioned, beers will pick up carbonation over time (as I naively did at one point in my life), I have some bad news, it won’t.
Message _angst_ P beers 5019 º places 97 º 08:27 Mon 6/1/2015 That’s a kinda interesting (and fairly funny) statement since I don’t remember the 2011 vintage as flat at all. But it’s a matter of taste. I do enjoy my lambics sparkling and champagne-like.
Message TimE P beers 8459 º places 409 º 09:40 Mon 6/1/2015 For the record, I didn’t talk to Tomme. I was poking fun at the 2008 or 2009 Angel Shares. The one that was completely flat, but ’it was intended to be that way because "it’s an English style barleywine"’ Tim