Belle-Vue Framboise

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

Bottle: Poured a reddish orange amber color with a light reddish white head. Aroma was sour berry and water. Sour raspberry and malt that finished bland.

Poured pinky red clear with foamy pink-white head. Lovely aromas of raspberry. Mildly tart raspberry taste with hop aftertaste. Smooth, though you can feel the fine carbonation in your mouth.

Another entry from Bellevue,with it’s sped up aging process and raspberry syrup,there’s better versions outthere,atleast they havn’t put it in cans yet.

The Butterfly, Brussels, Belgium. Served in a Belle Vue Framboise flute. Pours with a thin white head atop a rose colored body. Nice lacing. Lightly sour with a moderate raspberry aroma and flavor. Very good. Maybe better than the Kriek.

Bottle, from Waitrose, Marlborough, Wilts. Fruity, slightly tart, but deeply pleasurable aroma. Sharpish, fruit gum flavour, which levels out as strawberry/raspberry, with a softening metallic finish. Sherbetty sparkle, alternating with cake - hoppy on your tongue. Thin mouthfeel, little carbonation. Relatively complex - better than Belle Vue's Kriek, and my favourite Framboise overall.

Sampled alongside Jacobins Framboise max. It comes out favourably.. it’s not as sweet (which is probably a good thing), the Raspberry is less overpowering, it has far more body, and it tastes more like a beer. Despite the less sweet character, it’s still a very accessible and easily obtainable fruit lambic.

Syrupy sweet 2001 vintage sampled in 2004. Too much sugary thickness and artificial taste. Some sourness and "lambic-ness" does come through, but not nearly enough!

Poured from the bottle into a flute-type glass. A beautiful clear pinkish colour with a full head and good lacing. Aroma is of raspberry of course. A pleasant sourness in the taste.