Liefmans Frambozenbier

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

Sweet and tart for the most part. Rich raspberry color and aroma makes this a great beer for desert or relaxing with. Like a champagne of beer.

Very interesting color, orang-red-brown with a tall rocky red tinged head. The aroma is raspberry with a slight acid aroma. The flavor is loads of raspberry along with a bit of souness and acidity. The sweetness is dominate though. Upon further consoltation with my glass I get more balance between the sweet fruit and the sour ale. The tartness is most evident right after the swallow. Medium to light bodied with lively but not overly active carbonation. Quite a nice beer.

Bottle, Maproom, Chicago. I was fully expecting this to be a guilty pleasure and a cop out. I was feeling a bit drunker than I wanted, and decided on a smaller, more female beer to cool the jets and let my liver catch up. As it was, this wasn’t as girly as I was expecting. It actually tasted like beer at moments through all of the delicious raspberry, mostly on the finish, where I caught some bitterness. The flavor, while strong, was not overpowering, and it was all well balanced. I felt like making popsicles out of this.

Pours a nice cloudy reddish brown, more magenta colored from the raspberries. Aroma is pure raspberries, sweet and sharp. Taste is sweet and sour, a very nice blend of raspberries with no real taste of ’beer’ to speak of. Slightly carbonated, but the flavor seems to sparkle in your mouth.

This is nice but average, which is to say that this is an easily enjoyable style. It pours a murky red-brown, with only the last bit of sediment doing much to produce a little bit of white head (very little). Big raspberry aroma, but not so much fresh raspberries as much as raspberry fruit roll-ups (dried fruit kid’s food). Nice flavor, moderately sweet and mildly sour, obviously raspberry all over the place. Decent palate, marked by the dense carbonation and fairly mild hit on the tongue. Nice, though not as sour as I would have liked. I could drink this by the gallon.

This is an excellent beer if you like raspberries. The colour is a bit off putting--more brown than red or pink.

Muddy colored beer with a creamy lasting head. Sweet and sour raspberry aroma - thick and syrupy. Flavor is sweet at first but ends in a nice sourish biding finish. Very flavorfull and fresh with plenty of raspberry.

Slightly hazy amber color. Sweet pleasant drink, with a hint of raspberry sourness.