Belle-Vue Framboise

(Bottle at Le Poechenellekelder, Brussels) Red/light brown, lasting offwhite head. Sweet raspberry flavor. Raspberry in the flavor as welll, with some bitterness. A bit thin.

(Bottle) Pours a cloudy brownish red body with a thin white head. Raspberry nose. Flavor of raspberries, but not as sour or acidic as most Framboise.

[bottle from peckhams] pours a clear red colour with a large white head. nose is raspberrys. has a light body and a little sourness in the finish.

This is a raspberry clone of the Belle Vue Kriek cherry lambic. Interesting to try, but too much fruit candy sweetness keeps me from coming back for more.

Nothing much going on here, actually a little disappointed I chose this to taste over a bottle of Orval, but I guess I needed to try it some time. Tasted at the Belgian Beer café, Perth. Poured from the bottle into it’s own champagne flute, which pretty much summed this beer up before I even got to the first sip. Pours a clear light garnet-amber with a big and fluffy, pinkish-white head, that produced a reasonable amount of lace. Generous raspberry nose, slight white wine note, tart and acidic. In the mouth it all fell to pieces as the aroma was quite inviting. Very light bodied, watery and spritzy, it had the making of a glass of ’Passion Pop’ if it weren’t for the underlying sugary and fruity raspberry flavours that became puckeringly astringent in the back. It finishes off with a long dry tart fruit swallow that somehow managed to save it. Lacks complexity and became quite boring by the end. Commercialisation seems to have led this Lambic away from it’s roots. Not the best!!!

Bottle from binny’s...Poured a clear copper with airy white head. Aromas were very fruity, mostly berry and citrus. Flavors were also very berry, with a strong tart body. Not one of the better lambics I’ve had.

the aroma was a touch sour, but overall fruity. it poured a golden brown, with a thin head. but whoa! teh fruit sent medicinal shivers down my spine, but not from the alcohol. the cloying sweetness of this lasted a disquietingly long time.

Bottle. Okay this is a decent looking beer? with a nice head and maroon color. The smell is of rasberries and citrus. Taste is tart with a strong rasberry sweet in the finish. Lambics just don’t do it for me, maybe predinner, but never for an evening brew. Like champagne and fruit nothing akin to beer here.