Boon Framboise

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Lembeek, Belgium

Aroma is overwhelmingly framboise. Appearance is clear red with no head at all. Flavor is enjoyable, but nothing special, a hint of raspberries but not that much. Palate is confined to sweet.

Bottle 37,5 cl from Dranken Geers, Belgium. Deep redwine-red colour with a pink inch-high head. The Aroma is thick with almost "artificials" raperries...they are propably real....impressive. The taste is lolly-like. Ágain alot of sweet berries but not much sourness which I really prefer in my lambics. Still its a good and gentle taste that propably would suit most people. Medium oily mouthfeel. The finish is sweet with some bitter grape untertones.

75 cl bottle. Bright red color, rich fruit aroma, good blend of sweet and sour. Lots of raspberries in the flavor. Rich and tasty but a bit fake-tasting. Ok.

Bottle. 2002 i believe. Pours a brown tea body with a thin bubbly lacing. Tart chewy raspberries, a bit woody with some tanic notes. Most of the flavor is diminished, a bit woody dry and mostly devoid of fruit and in its place oxidation notes. No acidity or much else to speak of oh well.

Pours a murky dark red color with lots of floaties and a medium pinkish white head. The aroma has raspberries and tartness. The flavor is slightly tart and there’s of course raspberries, I would have liked some funk, but didn’t find any. The body is light to medium with low carbonation. Not bad, but not impressive at all.

37.5 cl bottle, dark red colour and a bit pink not stable head. Raspberry smell (what you could expect from a framboise) and a bit sour smell in the nose. I could not let it ripe in the cellar because I was too curieus to taste it. Taste: sour, raspberries with their typical sharpness, sweet, red berries. I think this is a good lambic but not a real topper.

2005 Vintage, no expiry shown. Poured out a small whitish head that had some retention and leaves some spotty lacing. Kind of an orangy reddish brown - definetly not a colour that catches your eye. The aroma is totally different than the Lindemans I had two days ago. This one has it’s raspberries but they are not oversweet or potent - they come across softer and do not seem fresh picked and some blackberries. There is also some leather and some other odd off-smelling odor. The taste is a very sharp, blunt, watery sourness - very sour indeed. The raspberry is there but the sourness has overpowered it. Very very tart. This is the total opposite of Lindemans (which I also have in a glass for comparrision). Short sour finish that does fade in strength. Wacky. I think I’ll get another one that’s younger and give it another shot.

2003 bottle, best before January 2009. Almost clear, orangey amber with a lasting white head. Juicy sweet raspberry aroma with a dusty wooden note. Sweet and sour raspberry and malt flavour.