 Rastacouere (5355), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Oct 25, 2007
Pure raspberry red coloured and fully veiled. Light and natural white head. Purely extracted raspberry, savvy and full of vitality, yet nervously juicy. Growing cherry presence as it warms. Hard to decipher, the wild yeast brings up a cheesy and bready backing, but the main character might be the huge citrus backings: lemony, grapefruity. Elegant to the max. It unveils itself not as perfumey as the original Framboos at this point, but perhaps as vibrant, not as acidic, but more jammy and in its own way, almost as brilliant. Fleshy palate, pie-like, delicate in its character fullness. Champaigny body. Superb and to me easily one of the best new beers of the year.
StFun (338), Indiana, USA
Sep 27, 2008 What a fantastic beer. Picked this up as a special occassion beer, and it did’nt let me down! Pours a murky reddish purple, with a pencil thin ring of lacing . Aroma is sour , sour, sour, and full of funk. The rasberries really penetrate and fill the nostrils, while the cherries add lots of character. Flavor is very tart and sour, with a big fruity punch. Lots of raspberry, but it never becomes overly sweet or sticky. Some straw, funk, and yeast in the background. Some hay-type notes in the background. Very sour on the palate. The funk, sourness, and fruit come together almost perfectly. This is an excellent beer...but, in its current form, it just doesn’t justify the price tag, when there’s some other almost-as-good lambic out there for half the price. However, this one should age amazingly.
Schroppfy (1733), Ohio, USA
Sep 22, 2008 Hedonically nearly perfect. The aroma is perfectly balanced between real fresh fruit, and framboise. By this I mean the raspberry is so real it transcends the lambicness at times, then just melds with it. A stony, pitty aroma presence, minerally at times, runs around in waves. The color is incredibly gorgeous, with the hints of tan increasing thoughts of leather in the horse barn. Flavors are somewhat acetic, somewhat lactic, sweet and sour and leathery. Incredible back of the throat sourness. Palate lets down just the tiniest bit; first brawny and slippery and thick, then with the feeling of a slight watery hole. A truly great beer. Thanks John.
MiP (6019), Flensburg, Germany
Sep 21, 2008 Bottle at EBF08. Good citric fruit, berry aroma. Deep red colour. The flavour is citric but mild, rounded off by the fruit. Very nice.
radiomgb (1776), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Sep 3, 2008 Deep red in colour with just a bit of brown thrown in, very thin white coloured head that left no lacing. The aroma is of light cherries, lots of tart raspberries, lightly acidic, some oak, sour. The flavour is very tart to start, dries out then gets a bit sweet, lots of tart raspberries throughout this, sour, some grapes. Tart mouthfeel, medium body, medium/high carbonation. Finishes long with some sweetness but then the tart raspberries take over.
A wonderful fruit lambic. Great sourness and tartness throughout this. I see this one aging very well.
750ml bottle obtained in a trade with henrikb, thanks Henrik.
Opened on March 25, 2008.
Bottled February 14, 2007.
CapFlu (3340), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Aug 23, 2008 (750ml) Thanks to MartinT for sharing this treasure. Pours a medium white head with a brown-red body. Nose is earth, seed, green leaf and tart raspberry. Flavour is nicely soured, limes and raspberry. Lasting tart finish.
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