La Choulette Framboise

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

Bottle, Knightly. Poured a murky ruby to garnet color with brown accents, soda-pop like initial head, dissipating to a thin covering, but almost no lacing. The aroma was strong and firm raspberries, obviously, with some funk too. Flavor was nice raspberries, some barnyard notes underneath, probably more musty than barnyard, light bready and grainy aspects to the malt flavors. Light to moderate body, yet with ample sedimentation or solids type of a presence to make this fun to drink. A pretty sippable beer, nice nightcap.

Aroma is sweet and fruity. Appearance is ruby amber with little to no head. Palate is rather flat. Taste is overwhelmingly sweet and rasberry followed by a sharp tartness.

Bottle. Reddish colour with a nice beautiful pink head. Rich raspberry aroma. Initial nice raspberry flavour, but the finish is quite skunky and harsh.

Bottle. Creamy slightly pink excellent fully lasting head. Red amber colour. Fantastic powerfull rasåberry aroma. Alas not as great flavor. Æight bitter nice initial flavot, but strage ugly harsh finish. Only slightly raspberry notes. Oily palate.

Bottled, alc. 6 % (BB 06/2008)
Clear ruby color, small white head, some lace. Aroma of rasberries, quite fresh even this is brewed from "just" rasberry juice. Crisp, carbonated mouthfeel. Dry rasberry flavor. Ok fruit beer, not so sophisticated, but clean and drinkable.

Sample from a bottle at BCTC 07. 20% opaque reddish pale body with a white head. Candied creamed raspberries in the nose, similar to Liefman’s is my first impression. Creamed, weird seedy raspberry and whipped cream sweetness. Pasty in the finish with some seedy, leafy (slightly sour) notes in the finish. Probably one of the weaker framboise I’ve had in a while.

In the bottle at the Max & Joe’s Belgian Beer Tasting. Thanks for the beer mdi! Pours cabernet red with a little white head. This one has a thin body. The aroma is just like Knott’s Berry Farm raspberry pancake syrup! Has a fizzy palate. The flavor is candy raspberry sugary sweet. Unfortunately, this did not do it for me, even though I generally am sympathetic toward this style of beer. I’m a bit surprised that my beer notes rated it exactly like the average score.

This beer really reminded me of a raspberry flavored soda. There is good and bad in that comparison. It is very light, pleasantly sweet, and drinkable. However, it is not very "beer-y" (meaning it didn’t really scratch my beer itch), nor was it very authentically fruity, and it wasn’t very complex. Still, not bad. This beer took me by surprise. While it is not very much like other beers, it is also not much like other Framboise I’ve had. There’s no sourness, just light sort-of-fruity sweetness. Still, I rather liked it.