La Choulette Framboise

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

A red beer with a fine but disappearing beige head. The aroma is acidic raspberry. The flavor is very sweet raspberry - too sweet and too much raspberries for me. And the carbonation is prickling all over - too much of that too. This is a French version of Alsterwasser. And it ended up just anothter rating for me.

(Bottle 75 cl) Hazy, reddish caramel colour with a small, off-white head. Fresh berry nose. Very heavy carbonation. Dry-bodied with an underlying tartness. Distinct raspberry flavours - unfortunately partly from artificial aromas. 251205

75 cL bottle. Pours deep hazy red and with a pink head. Aroma is raspberry with a light phenol note. Flavour is sweet raspberry with a distinct underlying phenol note. Ends with a light liqourice and fruity blend, light acidity.

Deep red. Light bodied, sweet, vanillaish, sweetish raspberry flavour and light bitterness.

Bottle 33cl @ chris_o’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008.
Unclear medium amber red color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate berry, cherry, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (020808)

Bottle, 6%. From a distance the raspberry aroma is nice, but up close there is some plastic. Hazy red colour. Raspberry flavour, some phenol. Distinct liquorice, nice enough, but not with raspberry. Berry pit bitterness, tolerable.

Bottled. Rubeyish amber colour, small head. Aroma is raspberry, not much else. Flavour is raspberries along with wood and some mild sweetness from brown sugar or syrup. Not too impressed.

Bottle. Clear red brown coloured with an off white head. Aroma of fruits, berries and vanilla. Flavour of raspberries and fruits with notes of vanilla.