Boon Framboise Mariage Parfait

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Lembeek, Belgium

Bottle shared with the usual suspects - 1997 vintage. Courtesy of Dave. Hazy, dull brown with tons of floaties and a very wispy head. Fantastic aroma of overripe raspberries, funky yeast, wood and a bit of cheese. Flavour starts with a surprisingly fresh raspberry flavour, with is quickly joined by some must and funk, leading to a lingering tart & acidic finish. Mouthfeel is thick and sticky, obviously well aged. Very fine stuff - thanks for sharing, Dave!

1997 Vintage, shared with a great crew on Canada Day. Dark brown, still head. Really nice musty berry aroma - amazing. Incredible taste - all musty malt, vinegar, sourness, lots of berries that tasted fresh, not nine years old, Almost of berry seed like bitterness. Lovely linger of berries. Complex, yet instantly drinkable, this has aged very well and was a pleasure to drink.

Vintage 2004. Graet deep-red color, copperisch and with a warm orange glow. Nice white, slight pinkish head leaving a fine lacing. Very fruity and expressive aroma with hints of sweet apple, red forrest berries, cherries, mullberries and overripe raspberries. It also has touches of musty tree bark, sous bois, some mint, old bourgundy wine, nectarine peaches and refreshing hops in the nose. The taste is fruity and keeps a good balance between sweet fruits (Berries, apples, and ripe stonefruits) the herbal bitters and the complex earthy accents. The afthertaste is very tastefull and the beer has a nice soury crispyness that counters the sweetness of the ripe red fruits and the refreshing herbalness of the well dosed hops. It has a great potential to age.

Bottle (750ml 1997 vintage). Shared with GregClow, tupalev, DougShoemaker, mds, Radek and others. Poured murky deep amber-orange with a small drizzly off-white head, tons of black seed-like floaties. Oh gawd, what a lovely aroma - initially fresh creamy raspberries, richly yeasty, a little dusty and a hint of sourness creeping in with peppery yeast notes as it warmed - this is 9 years old? Wow. The taste was pretty much the same, fresh berries, a bit creamy and funky, very yeasty, a little sticky-sweet to start but it finishes with some bitterness. Has a thick, creamy, sticky, syrupy mouthfeel - a wonderful treat, thanks for the share of your last bottle from a long-hoarded case of ’97, Dave S.

Bottle. 1997 vintage. Pours a murky dark orange with seeds and floaties abound and a small white head. The aroma has a crazy amount fruit substance - the juiciness/jamminess is astounding. The flavour has plenty of raspberry character as well considering the age...quite full and jammy with some grassy funkiness. Slightly sticky but generally balanced. (8-4-8-4-16)

Bottle. 2004 vintage. Murky red-brown with a small whitish ring of head. The aroma is ketchupy and there is a lot of raspberry substance with some juicy/syrupy sweetness. The sweetness in the flavour is apparent at first and is somewhat candyish but also has cereal and wheat elements. Lacks a true complexity. Good but not spectacular. Sampled at the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation on May 28, 2006. (8-3-7-3-14)

Sampled from a 750ml bottle, vintage 2004
Consumed at the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation, Opstal, May 2006 (2 years cellared)
Murky purple and unsaturated red hued body. Nose is a sensational experience of seedy, woody raspberries, creamy and full in the nose. Prickly, peppery tasting, some brash and medicinal flavors, but the flavor just doesn’t like up to the nose, which is stellar. Creamy, milky framboise, I guess I would call this. Very good.

Bottle, 2000 Vintage at Plan B, RBESG, August 2005. Nice clear pink colour. Plenty of fruit, with a farmyardy edge, on the nose. Quite fruity flavour, sweetish and not too sour. A pleasant, relatively easy drinking lambic.

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Red colour. Moderate hoppy aroma, raspberry notes ofcourse, but not overwealming. Moderate bitter finish. Nice oily palate, but I was a bit dissapointed about this beer.