Boon Framboise

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

Deep reddish colour with a thin white head. Raspberry fruity aroma with a weak yeasty note. Flavor starts sweet and fruity and ends on a tart yeasty note.

Bottle purchased 2005, sampled in June 2006.

Pours a deep raspberry red, elegant with a nice fine head.

The aroma is dominated by rich raspberry syrup as you might find over cheesecake at a first-rate restaurant. It also provides hints of vinegar and a definite twist of barnyard funk.

The raspberries come on strong on the front side of the taste, and the beer is initially sweet, flirting with too sweet before the flavor turns, bringing forth a tart and markedly dry, woody, and plenty of barnyard (never overwhelming). The mouthfeel is sparkling, refreshing, rich early, crisp late, all around very nice on a hot summer’s day.

Thi s is really, really good. It’s maybe a mark too sweet for my personal preference, but it’s a very fine beer.

Very happy to see this around again. Nice blend of fruit and barnyard pungence in the aroma. Russet color with a pretty good head. Syrupy raspberry sits atop some oaky barnyard funk, with a surprisingly bitter finish that borders on medicinal. Tasty, sort of a compromise between the bracing acidity of Cantillon and the syrupy fruit focus of Lindeman’s.

Bottle. Rusty russet colour. Lasting thin white head. Raspberry and cream aroma with some sourness evident. Full syrupy raspberry sweetish syrup and cream in mouth. Then odd sourness on finish. It just does not fit in with the rest of it. It is certainly the lowest rating that I have given for a Boon beer. Raspberry syrup is quite pleasing but it could be better.

Bottle. Muddy reddish beer with a mild head. The aroma is dulled strawberry and the flavour is initially vinous, then sour, then strawberry and then bitter. Overall a pleasant beer but not as good as I was expecting.

Color was burgundy with some orange hues, very thin initial head, not much but a ring around the edges after the first minutes. The lacing was non-existent. The aroma was raspberries with some barnyard funk and leather. The flavor was leather, funky cheese, light rubber, and some citrus. This was a pretty enjoyable beer, definitely funky, but the raspberry was assertive, far more assertive than Cantillon, not nearly as tart, but a distance behind the marketted syrup lambics that the other Belgians brewers produce. A great example of the fruit lambic style without overwhelming the unsuspecting with tart and funk, shock and awe.... yet not sugared up, either!

Clear red color with a thin white head. Sweet raspberry aroma. Light faspberry flavor, slightly sour with some light funk in the end.

Ruby-brown, lasting white head. Raspberry scent with grain. Raspberry flavour with sweat sock aftertones.