Mill Street Raspberry Ale (Frambozen)

Brewed by Mill St. Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Toronto, Canada

Draught. At BeerBistro, 2007 Golden Tap Awards. As "Mill Street Belgian Frambozen" or "-boise". Bright clear cherry red pour, with a decent frothy off-white head (3+). I liked the aroma - ripe strawberries, dry papery malt, but it doesn’t detract too much from the sweet, ripe fruit. The taste is pretty thin, though - too much stale caramel malt dominating the fruit; too sweet, too, more sugary than the promise of the nose. Thin, sharply carbonated body, and the flavour, such as it is, diminishes way too quickly. Nice smell though.

Draught at 2007 Golden Tap Awards, beerbistro. Called "Mill St. Belgian Frambozen". Pours a clear deep amber with a small diminishing white head. Aroma of raspberries, wheat, yeast and some light funk or sourness. Slightly watery flavour of lightly sour raspberries, sweet malt and some light hops in the finish. Average bodied. Not bad, I can see this being quenching on a hot day but it’s a little dull and atery for the style.

[541-20070818] Sample @ BeerBistro (Golden Taps, Toronto, ON). Very raspberry fruit aroma. Clear, bright red body with a medium-lasting bubbly white head. Tart grainy raspberry flavour has hints of wheat. Grainy medium body has a tart finish. Super frambozened, as promised.

TFOB 2007. Draft. Red tinged dark amber body with a small off white head. Big raspberry aroma is fairly sweet, with light tart leafy notes. Similar flavour is dominated by sweet raspberry that is just tart enough to keep it refreshing and not cloying. Average to medium palate. (3+) Simple, but quite nice, and pretty solid for a fruit beer. Based on previous ratings I would say that they may have tweaked the recipe. 7/3/7-8/3+/16

On tap at the brewery. Smelled like raspberries, tasted like vomit. Sipped three times, refused any further.

nice fruit beer, good pinky color, nose of fruit not a ditinct rasberry nose but fruit. lotsa slightly tart ras flavour, not alot of beer flavour. ok beer. Had at Ronnies local

on tap. cloudy red colour with a nice head. first sample smelled like canned peas, but tasted great. second sample smelled like raspberries. nice beer.

I think this is what my buddy had a growler of last night - it had an "F’ on the cap, it smelled like artificial raspberries, but was a deep brown in appearance. Tasted like cherry coke and I still didn’t care for it. I’ll keep my rating right where it is... At the brewpub. Amber with lots of pink, small white head. Faint raspberry aroma, light malt/grains. Taste - watered down raspberry, very reminiscent of the current version of KLB, which ain’t good. Honestly, this came across as their Organic with some raspberries - I had this over a month ago so judging by recent ratings, maybe it has changed, so I may try again (es[especially as the pints at this brewpub seem to change from visit to visit!). But what I had was a pretty weak effort by Mill Street’s high standards.