Flossmoor Station De Wilde Zuidentrein Frambozenbier

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

Bottles opened @ Flossmoor for the RateBeer party. Huge thanks to the guys at Flossmorr with hosting and most importantly opening this brew. I loved it. Poured a clear amber with a ruby hue. Big raspberry, fruity, and funky aroma. Very nice wild notes of leather and wood. The flavor is tart and fruity (raspberry of course) with more leather and wood. This beer was pleasant, refreshing and very tasty. Lively carbonation on the tongue.

Pours a rusty brown color with almost zero head. Carbonation is very heavy on initial pour. Aroma instantly punches you in the face with sour fruit. After the sourness settles, you get hints of hops, bananas, citrus. Taste starts out malty, but is instantly taken over by sour fruit and hops. Nice alcohol burn in each sip, with a long-lingering after taste of bitter hops. Very smooth mouthfeel aided by the carbonation. A very quality beer that I would drink on a regular basis if it was possible.

Sampled from bottles graciously opened by our hosts at Flossmoor on 4/28/06: Pours a transparent copper orange with a thin, wispy-lacing white head. Sweet, fruity raspberry aroma has some good caramel maltiness and nice tart presence. Starts with a pleasant malty and fruity sweetness with good authentic character and bursting with lots of sweet raspberries. Well-balanced with a light tartness and good oaky notes. Very similar, but better than New Glarus Raspberry Tart. An awesome fruit lambic!

Pros: Deep fresh red fruit aroma. Raspberry, cherry, strawberry. Very nice. The flavor is very dry, sour, shows nice fruit. Very nicely balance.

Cons: Not the best appearance. The head could show more color.

It’s a very nice beer.

A murky orange with a pinkish white head. The aroma is rather sour but also malty with some apples, raspberries, vinegar and some nutmeg and caramel. The flavor is rather sour and funky with some raspberries, apples, cherries. A nice funky tart flavor. I like funky tarts! Overall a nice beer!

Short-lived pinkish head over red-amber beer. Very sourish nose, especially initially, with both raspberries (real ones) and acetic acid, as well as old wood. Beautiful madeirisation in what is probably oak. Fresh flavours, despite the acids and the oxidation, with both cherries and raspberry – again old wood & complex esters. Age has led to some thinning; titillating MF, soft burning. Raspberry juice flavour with acids lingering on in the aftertaste, some leather; Very nice beer. Rather than of Belgian fruitlambics, it reminds me of the old, aged Zottegemse Kriek, hailing from Crombé, that I used to serve. And that is no mean compliment neither. Abject thanks to Matt VW, ToddA, and of course, my go-between Ward!

Matt treated RAYBOY01, dm9831, and me to this gem at Flossmoor’s 10th anniversary. It’s one of two versions of the De Wilde that he and Andrew had worked on.

It poured an amber body with pink highlighting and pretty much no head. The fruit was in the aroma, but the Brett took over, leaving this with a funky sourness and a touch of oak. Lively on the tongue, the raspberry came forward in the flavor, but the Brett ran the show, delivering a funky, fruity, woody taste treat. I’ll do a rerating when the other bottle is popped.

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Thanks to Matt and Andrew for the oppurtunity to sample this treat. (At an impromptu in-brewery meeting of The League of Strange Beer Drinkers) Mid-amber transparent pour with pink highlights and virtually no head. The nose is tart raspberries. Flavor was dominated however by the tart/sour Brett...very nicely so. Funkiness, sour puckering of the mouth, and glimmers of sweet/tart raspberries in the background. Nice dancing spritziness on the palate. Touches of oak barrel woodiness come and go. Great experiment on the part of the brew master.