La Choulette Framboise

Brewed by Brasserie La Choulette
Style: Fruit Beer
Hordain, France

Pours a deep red, with a moderate light reddish head, pleasant raspberry aroma, with notes of oak. flavor is that of sweet raspberries, but far more subtle and elegant than most other beers i have had, also noted subtle hints of chocolate after the initial raspberry flavor melts away. Very enjoyable.

Bottle, at home. Red with red head, fully diminishing. Aroma sweet (raspberry). Flavor sweet and acidic. Light body, watery, lively carbonated.

This was a boring framboise. It was not as tart candy flavored as I’m used to. It had less in residual sugar which was a refreshing change but it lacked any tartness. This beer kept flexing it’s malty nuts and manhandling the raspberries, even despite this- it was still pretty wimpy.

La Choulette Framboise is a fruit beer that is not exactly a lambic but getting pretty close from it. It has a deep red colour with almost no head at all, it actually looks like soda. Flavor is very dry and not that sweet, which is astonishing for a fruit beer. But you can definitely taste the raspberry aroma. The finish is abrupt and somehow bitter. I think it qualifies as a "pretty interesting beer", though I think La Choulette Blonde is way better. Drink it along a piece of pork, it’s a great combination.

hmm....i think the only reason this isn’t classified as a lambic-fruit is because it’s from france and not belgium, because it’s extraordinarily similar to lindeman’s framboise. clearly sweetened, but i think i like it. smells like raspberries meet hops, and a little extra sugar dissolved. quite dry despite the initial sweetness - i wonder how they achieved that? this beer fits right in the timeline of steak, dessert, and coffee, somewhere between dinner and coffee.

Bottled - Peterborough BF. A deep red coloured beer with a raspberry jam aroma. The taste is a let down resembling a poor lager base with some fruit added. All a bit artificial and nowhere near as nice as most Belgian fruit beers.

Bottle. Wow, the ratings are up and down on this one. I dig this and i think its classy. Soft, natural rasberrry character (fleshy rasberrry). Subtle, lightly sweet, with a off dry finish, very well balanced. Like it.

Almost no head on a reddish body. The taste is not too sweet nor too bitter. I has a good balance between the hops and malt on one hand, and the fruits on the other. Excellent as dessert beer or apéritif. Very pleasant experience.