Liefmans Frambozenbier

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

Very good with a good blend of sweat and sour. Thirst quenching. Great aroma when first open it.

Bottle. Pours a hazy dark ruby with an average size diminishing pinkish-beige head. Aroma of fresh raspberries along with some yeast and a mild sourness. Nice tart raspberry flavour, not cloying at all. Medium bodied. A simple take on the style, more of a Fruit beer then a Flemish, but still a pretty good beer.

pours a darker red with a large slightly pink head leaves little lacing. aroma is sweet and sour raspberrys. taste is a little sugary and not suprisingly raspberrys. quite refreshing.

Bottle: Purple body and head, aroma is sweet of red berries, complex and full body that balances very well the sweetness and a nice malty bitterness. A beer to be enjoyed occasionally.

Thanks to Slander for sharing this at HWOH. One of the best out of all the aged liefman lambics. This one was a ’92 I believe, and it held up surprisingly well. Pours a nice deep fruity red with a off red-pinkish head that actually lasted for a bit but then faded eventually. Aroma is of some stale and sour raspberries, but still has a slight bit of sweet fresh fruit in there. Lots of lactic and tartness throughout. Some farmhouse and funky aromas and flavors are noticed as well. Lightly oxidized but not nearly as much as some others like the goudenband from the same year. Finishes with a dry cork, lactic, and sour end. Nice.

Bottle (375ml). Thanks for the trade, Iguenard. Poured deep hazy ruby with a large lasting foamy-creamy apricot-tinged beige head. Aroma of fresh ripe raspberries, sweet raspberry pie, and yeast. Very pleasant flavour of ripe raspberries, off-dry white wine, enough yeasty tartness to prevent it from being cloyingly sweet. Slight acidic, nicely carbonated and very sticky, slgihtly thin bodied mouthfeel - my wife and I drank this on tap on a lovely patio in Bruges more than 5 years ago, this really takes me back - now I have to give her the rest of the glass to drink :-[

1. On Tap at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 09/03/2001 Fruity raspberry aroma and flavour with a pleasant finish. 2. On Tap at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 25/01/2003 Dark red coloured with a cloudy appearance. Fruity raspberry aroma and flavour. Hop finish. 3. On Tap at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 24/08/2003 Mid brown coloured with a slightly clody appearance. Very fruity raspberry aroma and flavour. Hoppy finish.

On draught at Delirium Café. Dark red in colour. Pink bubbly head. Raspberry nose, no sign of flemish. Sparkling mouthfeel. Flavour is sorbet raspberry and a bit earthy.