Liefmans Frambozenbier

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

Draft. Pours a deep garnet with slightly offwhite head. Mildly funky sour nose, tart cherries melding into smooth clean sweet finish, very drinkable, very clean water profile.

Mild coffee raspberry aroma. Cloudy swirling fruit pour. Brownish purple, but mostly brown Nice tart raspberry feel, less sweet than I anticipated. Good beery attitude without any bitter at all. No hint of alcohol. Fine and friendly finish.

Bottle, bought @ Kolding Vinhandel. [vintage 2006]
Pours a clear red-brown with a small beige-like creamy head. Aroma is funky, barnyard, raspberries, smoky and oaky. Very fresh and lively mouthfeel. Flavour is relatively sour, but well-balanced, some raspberries and oakynes.

Bottle. Aroma of raspberry yeast and earthen funk. Poured brownish ruby pink froth. Flavor was raspberry and yeast. Palate was filling and lively and sweet tart. Overall, yeah, I’ll get more.

Bottle shared courtesy of biggcb. Corked stamped ’1999’. Poured a medium amberish color with a very small sized head. Aromas of cherries, berries, and a little funky. Tastes of raspberries, berries, yeast, and a little funky. Medium tart finish.

Thanks to biggcb, bottle from 1999. Pours a lightly hazy raspberry orange with a smaller bubbly white head. Aroma of raspberry, tart, cork, some funkiness settling in and various mixed berries. Flavor of sweet tarts, smarties, raspberries, tart and kind of funky but sweet.

375ml Botle. Pours a dark red/ light brown body with nice head, lots of lacing left on the glass. Aroma is of light barnyeard, sourness, and beeries. Flavor is slightly sour with a nice raspberry touch, light yeast and some barnyard. Very smooth, enjoyable and different then what I expected.

(bottle) Pours a muddy brown with a small off white head. Aroma has a hint of raspberry, and slight brown sugar. Taste was not too sour, quite sweet actually with a little raspberry and brown sugar.