Boon Framboise

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

Pours a dark pink with a very small and quickely dissapating white head. Very tart smelling nose of cranberries, and a hint of sweetness. the flavor is unique and I pick up some mustard and bologna with a little sweetness and a tart acidity or maybe vinegar. I almost wonder if this bottle is a little off. I will try again and re-rate if needed.

Pinkish red in colour with a bit of brown mixed in. Light carbonation. Aromas of under-ripe raspberries, lemon, balsam wood, and earth. Flavors of sour raspberries lead the way with some raspberry cane and eventually cedar wood bring up the rear. A good amount of acidity and fairly dry. This is definitely not a sweet dessert beer. Some pretty drinkable stuff that makes me excited to try some of the better examples. 2005 vintage. Thanks to presario for the sample.

The aroma has a wild yeast smell which is not unlike a raspberry scented urinal cake. The appearance is amber with a nice foamy head. The flavor is not much better than the aroma. It is incredibly sour with wild yeast and sugar and only a moderate amount of raspberry. The palate is nothing special and the aftertaste is astringent. I couldn’t finish this, it tastes really bad to me. I guess Boon Lambics are not my thing.

Pours a clear and effervescent reddish copper color, briefly topped by a quarter inch of white foam. This reduces to a ring in short order. Tart fruity and slightly cheesey aroma. Light fresh raspberry and strawberry flavor sits on top of a tart and slightly funky brew. The finish is quite tart a lemony, with a very mild herbal hop presence. Tart acidic raspberry lingers in the aftertaste. Medium body and gentle carbonation.

Bottle. Mild berry aroma, little carbonation. Light raspberry flavor with a somewhat dry sour/funk aftertaste.

Palatable enjoyable but no where as good as their kriek and nowhere close to the best Framboise that I have had from Drie Fountaine. Page 65 of Michael Jackson’s Great Beer Guide and only 199 Classic brews to go.

Dark red-brown, not very nice to look at. Raspberry aroma; some sweetness there. Taste is a curious woody mixture of sweetness, sourness and bitterness with a faint aftertaste of raspberry jam. Like eating unripe fruit. Would have liked a little more sourness to be honest.

Bottle. Deep red with a disappearing head. Aromas are sweet and sour raspberry with some woody and vanilla notes. Flavours are juicy and tart raspberry with an agricultural character. Cherry drop sweets sourness on the finish. Fairly dry on the finish.