Boon Framboise

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

Boon Framboise is an excellent beer. This is one of the more authentic tasting lambics that has not been sweetened to appeal to a wider audience. This beer has a very sour refreshing edge, and some real vinous character. Boon Framboise pours to a beautiful, bright pink color with a thick white head, and a very lively carbonation. The nose on this beer is very complex. Aromas of oak, raspberry, and yeast flood the nose. The palate is firm with tart wheat flavors, notes of raspberry, and oak. This beer finishes with more slightly sweet berry flavors and a crisp, refreshing, sour edge. This beer is a wonderful aperitif, and also works extremely well as a desert beer. Framboise also works very well as an ingredient in dishes. I would have this beer as an aperitif, or match it with a desert such as a raspberry tart, or perhaps raspberry cheese cake.

a cheeky light fruity number with plenty of body. don’t go near if you are adverse to raspberry. the sour notes hit the back of your tongue like a sledgehammer. my mates thought it was a pile of piss!

Who let the cows out? Hee Haw! Down on the farm. There is a good dose of raspberry in the nose also. The palate is very acidic (apple) with a quenching dryness in the finish. The raspberries round-out this beer very well.

Deep cloudy purplish brown with a moderate white head, aroma of wet hay, sourness, and some raspberry. Flavor is an excellent mixture of sourness and the sweetness of the raspberry. Delicious. Probably my favorite lambic at the time.

Bottle. This is the beer that my wife and I toasted with at our wedding! Big raspberry and oak in the nose. First thing that hits your tongue is tart rasberries and lemon with a earthy background. Very drinkable. Great celebration beer.

Hazy orange with a low head. Sweet raspberry aroma with further notes of basement, wood and cask. Invitating and just plain out thirst provoking! And the flavour fullfill my greatest dream of a perfect beer: It begins sweet like raspbeery juice but then devolps into acid and a bit sour notes with basement, mold and wild yeast playing in the background. It’s is neither complex nor extremely sour/acid, but then again, does a well rounded fruit lambic need to be almost undrinkable to be great?

A most excellent fruity lambic. I had this just below room temperature. Slightly cloudy color, very assertive fruity/sour nose. Flavor was a good balance between fruit and lambic sourness - the latter more present in this than in say, BelleVue or La Becasse. Slightly sticky finish, but that may have been my palatte. Excellent if you don’t mind the high price.