Belle-Vue Framboise

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

Overall, was very thin and did not have much fruit or malt taste. Hops were aparent, but what wasn’t was the sour acidic taste that I have come to expect from the style. A disapointment.

I generally love fruit lambics; so why have I picked a couple of dogs to start my lambic-rating career? Got me. Unlike ecrvich, I had a sample with virtually no head, but I liked the cloudy red body and the super-fruity aroma. Then I tasted it. Hit with a raspberry explosion at first, I was quickly thrown into a well of sourness the next; tasted kind of flat and stale, and very two-note. Just raspberry; then just sourness. I’ll go back to Lindemans.

Not my thing. Interesting mix of flavours, sweet, sour, a bit bitter and even salty. Sparkly, golden-red and a foamy head that tastes oddly metallic. Complex taste, worth a try perhaps, but I didn’t enjoy it.

A dark Orange/Ruby color with a slight haze and an off-white head. Sweet berry with some wood & a slight tart scent. Very syrupy sweet up front with a bit of oakiness in the middle and just a hint of lambic tartness in the follow. As in their Kriek offering, this is fairly tasty but too sweet.

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.

Pours a reddish brown but after having the Lindemans Framboise I was expecting more. Not as red in appearance or as tart in the taste as the Lindemans. Taste of raspberries is evident but not as strong as I was expecting. Finishes well and not very sour but this Belle-Vue also seemed to be missing something. Not horrible just nothing overpowering.

Pinkish beer with raspberry aroma and taste - slightly artificial. Pleasent mouthfeel. I like their kriek better.

Muddy red-brown. Thin off-white head w/ pinkish hue. Mildly tart, very sweet raspberry juice aroma w/ some woody notes. Medium, lightly acidic feel. Very sweet raspberry flavour w/ some lightly acidic sourness. Also some oak and iron notes.