Liefmans Frambozenbier

Formerly brewed at Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Sour Ale
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Brown with a bit of ruby. Small off white head. Juicy sour raspberry aroma. Same flavor with some tartness and a subtle toasty malt background. Finishes dry. Foamy yet soft medium body. Decent.

2008/01/28 - Pours dark reddish amber with a fully receding off-white. Aroma of raspberry, cherry, and sour fruits. Taste of raspberry, tart berries, barnyard, and lightly sweet. Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied with a dry finish. Pretty tasty.
Ar 7 Ap 4 Fl 7 Mf 5 Ov 16

2009/09/19 - 2003 bottle from Party Mart. Pours reddish purple with no head. Taste of raspberry, mildly sweet, grape, berry lemonade, lightly tart/sour, and mildly acidic. Thin bodied with mild fizzy carbonation.
Ar 8 Ap 3 Ta 7 Mf 4 Ov 15

Bottle in Pikkulintu, Helsinki- Dark red in colour with a lovely raspberry aroma. Raspberry is also strongly present in the taste which has a good sweet and sour balance. Very nice although it would be interesting to see how much of this is actually natural raspberry!

So, I heard this brewery is going out of business, so I scooped up a few bottles of their stuff. This beer, from a paper wrapped, 355 ml bottle with cork, poured a ruby bruin with a fluffy off-white head. Nose of sweet and sour raspberries and delicious natural candy. Fresh, crisp and clean. Even after aging since 2006, this beer was prime. Lots of chunkage around the mouth of the bottle. Not puckering sour, but just right. And the sweetness, quite balanced. Yum!

Protectively paper wrapped caged corked 355 ml. green bottle, (2.005) on the cork, best before date on the cap (NOV2015), sampled in a snifter. L: Reddish tarnished bronze with a compact unbleached beige head of sudsy foam that settled into a thin bubbly lacing. Light amounts of sticky lace. S: An explosion of fresh raspberries, sweet and tart, quite juicy smelling. A mildly tangy yeastiness and hints of sugar. F&T: A nice syrupy feel in mouth, slick on the tongue, softly crisp and dry. This strikes a near perfect balance between the sweet and sour of pureed raspberry. Mildly sweet and tart raspberries with a little seediness, and a light underflow of softly sour raspberry syrup. Lingering traces of sugary raspberry juice in the aftertaste. No trait overwhelms the other, everything is in sweet harmony.

Reddish brown of color with a beige head. An aroma of red fruits - raspberry, candy and sour/ fresh notes. A flavor of nice raspberrys, red fruits, candy, fresh and mildly sour.

Deep brick red and nearly no head. Sour aroma. Berries, sugary fruits, champagne, and earthy. Very tasty, though the body is a bit thin. The sweet berries strike first followed by some light tart notes. Finishes like champagne, I just wish it lingered a little longer. Crisp and refreshing; I could drink this all night.

Red with tiny head. Sweet aroma with raspberries and some sour notes as well. Sweet flavor with raspberries, wood and discrete barnyardy notes.