Belle-Vue Framboise

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

Had a 5 year old sample yeasterday. Interesting how this beer dries up over time. Still not all thhat great for the style but definetly nicer than their sweet offerings. The three year old sample would rate in around a 3.1, but their usual framboise is less.

Bottle. Medium white head that mostly diminished, sparse lacing, fine-small sized bubbles, carbonated, transparent, and an orange hue. Aroma was sweet and raspberries. Flavor was sweet, tart, tangy, raspberries, and acidic. Too sweet tasting. Palate was smooth and somewhat dry. Light body.

Sweet cherry malt aroma. Red brown colour with fair head. Sweet malt cherry flavour very very sweet respberry fruity flavour. Fizzy palate. Guess I am sweet enough as this one was way too sweet for me.

Dark red colored, little yellow head. Extremely strong raspberry in aroma with some bubblegum. Thin to medium bodied. Flavor is slightly sour with dominating raspberries and bubblegum also in aftertaste. Refreshing and easy to drink. High carbonation, some skunkiness also in aftertaste.

(Bottle 37,5 cl) "Is this beer???" was the remark I encountered when I introduced this beer to a female friend. And the remark is quite understandable if this is your first introduction to a fruit beer. Reddish colour, a bubbly head. Some underlying acidity but the sweetness from the rapberry juice is close to overwhelming. But as an aperitf this is perfect. 160793

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.

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.

Deep red, clear. Raspberry jam aroma. Very sweet palate and all raspberry jam flavour. Very little lambic character at all and overall way too sweet and simple.