Boon Framboise Mariage Parfait

Bottle @ European beerfestival 2008. Pours a hazy red-brown with a tiny head. Sweet with some bitterness. Strong aromas of not entirely ripe raspberries... nice. Tiny funghi hint. Nice dry finish with a bit more raspberry aromas.

75cl bottle: Vintage 2004. Hazy reddish amber with a fine white head. Wauw... tart, sweet, juicy, sticky, crisp, dry, raspberry. Wlell balanced. Really nice retired lambic from Boon!

Rating #24from the european beer festival 2008. One of the best brews of the evening and certainly a nice suprise to find this one on the festival. Has a great hazy red towards pink look. Fine sweet rasberry aroma along with some sour eartheren notes. Light white sugery taste along with tons of ras sweetness and a well put tartness. Was perfect at the time, and so good that i had to try two samples!

hazy red brown,only every so slight woody nose, little tart nice body if not over complex,not oversweet huge rasp finnish

Rosy-bodied and pink-topped, it’s tough to look manly with a glass of Boon’s craft in hand. Aromatically though, the fruit’s luscious intensity is about as delicate as a jackhammer. Strawberry cheesecake, grape candy, red apple and raspberry jelly; there’s pie crust and peaches, brown sugar and cookies. All this is only meagerly balanced by well-aged hops, but no matter, the variegated fruit flavors are truly inspiring. As for the flavor, imagine The Shining’s elevators spewing torrents of raspberry syrup instead of blood. Surprisingly dry, the fruit is full but not cloying and the fine carbonation adds wonderful texture to the experience. Hints of fig, browned butter, oak and black cherry, a finishing touch of blackcurrant, it’s an impressive brew. If it had further explored those sour notes of leather, this certainly would approach perfection in the realm of fruit lambics. For those outsiders who deem a pink fruit beer girly, let me again borrow from Jack Nicholson’s oeuvre and say "YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE FRUIT!" (01/07/07, 2004 bottle)