Lindemans Framboise

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

The holy grail of Chick beer...even men love this stuff..it’s pricey but worth it. For a more cost effective alternative one may try Leinenkugels Berry weiss.

Mmmmmm. This is super girly but just so damn tasty. Raspberry desert after a heavy day of proving your beer worth.

Very interesting brew. More of a wine or even fruit juice. Aroma is wonderful. Raspberries everywhere. A little thin and not much beer presence. Very good and refreshing though.

Very deep red, almost purple in color......opaque. Fluffy, pinkish head. Strong aroma of raspberries. Sweet raspberry flavor up front......slightly crisp mouthfeel. Extremely tart fruit flavor hits in the back......finish is exactly the same.

Me and the Dude were in Santa Cruz for a wedding, and the reception was at a bar downtown. Some tardbra bouncer sent us to the wrong bar, which turned out to be "beer heaven" according to the dude. Got this in a flute on tap. Deep red color with a pink had, lots of raspberry smell and flavor. Creamy mouthfeel. An interesting brew for sure.

Ruby red lacking thin pink head. Sweet aroma is followed by overly sweet, nearly syrupy raspberry flavor. Sweetening of these classic styles may sell better to the masses but I’d prefer if they keep it closer to the traditional sweet/tart profile.

No 386
Rated: 01.05.2008
Bottle green, 375 ml
Appearance: Pours hazy, raspberry red coloured body, colour is intensive and lively from the fresh natural raspberry extract, body carbonation is weak to medium visually but the colour of it and its intensivity makes it more difficult to see, head is fizzy to foamy initially quickly decreasing, than lasting in a tiny size, head colour is off- white, reddish hue.
Aroma: Quite similar to raspberry juice, intensive, fruity but again I can feel some Lambic characteristic accidity, some notes of jelly - fruit of raspberry taste, generally very intensive aroma on the one hand but one dimentional on the other.
Flavour: Front is again like in the previous cherry version, so sweet on the tip of the tongue, medium bodied beer, medium is becoming accidic and the accicity becomes stronger to its peak in the aftertaste, well pronounced accidity perfectly rounded in the taste by sweet raspbery juice, no bitterness but in fact some grainy touch wheat or malt like, finish feel is long, you can feel nice touch of raspberry seeds, aroma like after eating raspberries fresh from the garden.
Palate: Body is medium, texture is accidic to sticky, carbonation on palate is medium, finish feel is fruity, clean, aromatic.

Amazing that I had not rated this one already as it has been a favorite for about 7 years now - though price keeps me from enjoying it nearly as often as I would like. Sampled on draft for the purpose of this rating the beer poured a vibrant beet red color with a medium sized pink head. The aroma was full and strong with tangy, tart and sweet berry. The flavor is strong and intense with tangy, tart yet sweet raspberry. the finish is long, tart and intense. Liquid glory.