Belle-Vue Framboise

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

bottled. One of my very first Belgian beers and its still a good’un. Watery brown colour with thin head. Light aroma of raspberries and flowers with some earthy notes. Taste ot match - flavour is a bit thin. Bubbly and sweet with a dry finish.

12/31/02: bottle. nice, thick pink blush to white head. wonderful lacing and a wonderful, heavenly smell. i think that i could sit and smell this one all day! a more refined taste than the Lindemans Pêche i had the night before (more tart and mellow. less sweet.) clean, refreshing with hints of raspberries. a great taste to end the year.

red in colour with big fluffy head, rasberry nose and tatse metallic. nice desert beer

Im not a huge Framboise fan, starts out sour with a fruity punch for a finish

Bright rose colour, smells like raspberry vinegar (duh). Certainly tastes like sparkling raspberry juice and, no I don’t think it’s too sweet. But then I like most sweetish brews. However, this is far less sour than the few other Lambics I’ve had, so I can understand why Lambic purists (my superiors) would hate it. I don’t want to make it sound like an alcopop, (it’s way better than that), but if you happen to be hankering for an alcoholic soda this fits the bill.

my bottle has the continental label: "la becasse" and features the elusive eurasian woodcock. the bottled bird burst the bounds of glassy confinement with a sticky drench of angry foam. once corraled into proper glassware, the brew glistened like a copper alembic, proudly polished, with a fog of opacity and a faint blush of lipstick rouge. just a sniff of the aggressive tartness causes salivary glands to pucker. it’s a cookie-crusted tarte aux framboise with both the soft pine of fresh kindling and a note that recalls milk chocolate. great fruit basket sweetness balances with tartness, it’s full-flavored on a cool, refreshing, wine-like body. it tastes like granny smith apples and wild raspberries, with a doughy wheat-like sweetness that dries by seeming to trickle over raw lumber-- the living lambic that dwells beneath. not as lovely as a lindemann’s, but a great change of pace beverage.

Quite a unique gold/pink colour, with a good head. Aroma is clean, fresh, and while not immediately raspberry like, it is fruity and very appealing. Palate is light,with refreshing zesty, fruity, and cleansing flavours. This is a classic lambic, with all the clean refreshing character that these beers exhibit. Lovely!

Not really sure why I bought this beer - definitely wanted the bottle for my home-brewed Lambic but I'm not sure it's the best value at $7 each. Aroma is fruity and completely lacking in Brett. character. In fact there was no discernable Brett. character at all. Attractive beer, red tinged with pretty decent head. Flavour was pretty reasonable. Quite fruity but quickly followed by a fairly strong sourness (a lot more than I remember). This has satisfied my need for crappy Lambics for quite some time.