Belle-Vue Framboise

Brewed by Belle-Vue (InBev)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium

Bottled. Pours odd pink-brown. Decently sour lambic taste, but still kind of sweet. Picks up a little cork. Kind of ordinary and syrupy.

Vintage 2001: Overly sweetened soda like in flavor...with of course the undertone of sourness, which in this case saves the day. Not one I will ever repeat, but not awfull either.

375ml bottle. Red body with a rather small head. Aroma is artificial raspberry juice. Flavor is as expected sweet and raspberry. Nothing for the lovers of real lambic, kriek and framboise lovers, but I have to admit its quite refreshing served cold on a hot day. Actually better than B-V kriek.

Bottle, 25 cl. Clear pinkisch red color, thick white (pinkisch shine) head. Aroma sweet and raspberry. Thin to medium body. Taste: mouth is dull raspberry, sweet.

Sweet, almost menthol cork, fruity crisp nose. cloudy, pretty white slime and chunks at the bottle bottom, reddish color. Souring on the tongue with some blue cheesy edges, less fruity and sweet than other lambics.

Light red coloured with some very light carbonation and an average pink-white head. Very fruity, raspberry aroma, somewhat woody, stone with a peppery touch. Medium body, little wattery. Finish is sweet fruity with some clear raspberry hints. Smouth and easy to drink, but misses some more texture.

Somewhat sour, slight raspberry flavor, adit of earth, decent, but nothing great.

Bottle. Dark copper/amber colour with a large, slightly pink head. Aroma is tart raspberries. Taste is less raspberry and more, well, like beer. Still dominated by the fruit but also some light bitterness, a bit of wood and a light sour finish. Nice mouthfeel. I quite like this.