Cantillon Framboise

Formerly brewed at Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Hand bottled version. Beautiful dark magenta in color with a small light pink head of thinning foam. Vibrant, fruit forward (raspberry) aroma with the typical hints of dry maggot filled wood, horseblanket and lambic. Nice aroma overall. Compared to the Rose de Gambrinus, this has a much deeper raspberry fruitiness, although it is no where near as sour. Tasty. Thanks Dr. Bill.

1979 bottle: Acidic raspberry aroma. Dark yellow colour, small white head. Looks quite lively for a 25 year old beer. Very acidic vinegar flavour with a hint of raspberry. Something like white wine with vinegar. Earthy, slightly mouldy flavour. Fresh bottle: Berry aroma. Unclear red colour, very small pink head. Clear raspberry flavour with some acidity, also in aftertaste.

[Vintage 1979] It has this odd pinkish orange colour which old fruit lambics often have. Acidic raspberry aroma with some notes of black powder. Very sour and acidic flavour. Superbly complex with lots of fruitiness still. Aftertaste as if you had a shot of raspberry vinegar. Wonderful.

bottled tasting at cantillon: huge nose of framboise in pinkish ruby solution. lots of active effervesence. once again quite deceiving the palate is very tart and the fruit is hidden or not evident underneath this tartness. almost too tart until the tongue gets used to it. maybe with should age this one for a bit and see what happens.

Pours a lite pinkish purple color, with a fizzy soda like head. This has alot of sweet and sour flavors going on, but mostly overly tart and sour, with a little bit of fruit lying just under the surface. Some flower scents in the aroma, with fruity woody notes in the aftertaste.

The name of this beer has had me quite baffled. Having looked at the diverse ratings makes it clear that: 1) it is not a draught raspberrylambic, but a bottled beer indeed 2) this beer has a multitude of beers having not a lot to do with each other. At least two ought to reclassified under the Lou Pepe Framboise. the Cuvée Mozart was a one-off from already sometime ago, heavy on the vanilla - like the guy's music. The ordinary bottled C. Framboise is called Rosé de Gambinus. Enfin, these days. So, I went searching in the cellar and brought up this bottle, calling itself just "Framboise Cantillon", and a little patch added by late my father indicated he'd bought this in October 1984. For a 20 year old beer, a gorgeous "plop" accompagnies the opening, visible CO2 steam coming out of the neck. The colour is undescribable, like old red gold, containing a lot of copper, has been polished and then liquified. Pinkish head, slowly dissipating. It is a if the raspberries have been added yesterday, following the nose. But also the smell of a more dangerous carbongas, from out of pressure container. And some sweet smell - I would wager saccharine. Tart, mouth-puckering taste, woody, sour fruit, to the extend of first-phase fruit after flowering. There is a flavour which foreknowledge tells me raspberry - but it could have been gosseberry as well. Little horseblanket, but definitely wood, sulphur and a bit of sherry. In the finish the fruit taste becomes more rounder and even sweeter. Strange: no smoky flavour, indicating saccharine in old beer. Super-dry, acidburn. WOW! just the level of preservation at its age makes this a marvel. But the things one has to do for getting all the entries at Ratebeer! The colour is out of this world.

This framboise is quite clear in appearance. Has a reddish hue to it (though less so than the Kriek). Quite a strong raspberry aroma. Quite sour and dry with a nice fruitiness to it. The fruitiness is more of a nondescript kind than specifically from raspberries, though there is a bit of subtle raspberry flavor.

Again a special acid taste, but also a bit sweet. Realy a bee to taste if you are thursty!