St. Ambroise Framboise

Brewed by McAuslan Brewing
Style: Fruit Beer
Montreal, Canada

Bottle. Dark, murky mahogany with a medium white head and lacing. The aroma consists of cherries and tart fruity raspberries. The flavour is typically simple sweet and syrupy though there is a touch of fruit tartness. Not all that great but it’s still drinkable.

Verre de dégustation de 4oz, provenant d’une bouteille de 341 ml, dégusté au Festival des Fromages (Warwick, QC). Arôme: Odeur de framboises. Apparence: La couleur est rougâtre avec une moyenne densité de bulle. Présence d’un moyen col mousseux et d’une large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de framboises légèrement sûrettes. Longue durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture mince. Forte effervescence en bouche. Présence de canneberges (?) en arrière goût. (Rating #523)

Bottle. Ruby body, with a small white-pink head and light lacing on the glass. Tart raspberry aroma with mild hints of cherry, touch muted at times. Overly sweet fruit flavour, raspberry jam, with a touch of green vine and tartness. Average to medium palate. This has a big fruit factor, and its sort of nice but it needs more complexity to make it drinkable in any kind of quantity.

pours a murky red/brown with an offwhite/slightly pink head. Creamy thin lacing. Nose of slightly sour and fermented raspberry with a whiff of woodland mushrooms and yeast. Initially quite acidic, and lessens quickly. Not as userfriendly as suspected. Not very sweet, more deep in malts, earth and more of that mushroom. It’s fairly good. I expected something bolder.

Robe rouge foncée voilée surmontée d’une mousse rose qui s’estompe. Arômes de framboise mures et de céréales. Saveurs de framboises mures, de torréfié et de céréales.

Brown bottle in a tube, 341 ml, best before 31JAN08, savoured on November 16 2007; eye: grape juice, hazy, no effervescence, nice creamy pinkish head that lasts, lots of lacing; nose: raspberry, caramelized malt, lightly stale, caramel, light acidity; mouth: creamy, light malt, raspberry, start to become quite sweet but that is fortunately stopped by the acidity of the fruit, finale in malt where the raspberry is becoming more and more present, lighstly sweet and acidic, medium body, creamy but a bit thin of a texture, average carbonation; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune dans un tube de carton, 341 ml, meilleure avant 31JAN08, savourée le 16 novembre 2007; œil : jus de raisin, voilée, pas d’effervescence, belle mousse rosée crémeuse qui perdure, beaucoup de dentelle; nez : framboise, malt caramélisé, légèrement éventée, caramel, légère acidité; bouche : crémeuse, légèrement malté, framboise, commence à devenir très sucrée mais l’acidité du fruit arrive juste à point pour contrer cette vague de sucre qui s’en venait, finale en malt mais où la framboise devient de plus en plus présente, légèrement sucrée et acide, corps moyen, texture crémeuse mais un peu mince, carbonatation moyenne; en résumé : correct

Bottle. This is dark red colour in the glass with a pinkish head. There is plenty of raspberry in the aroma, a strong hit of yeast, some other fruits: apple? The flavour is not as interesting: raspberry, sugar, some water leading to a dry finish.

[bottle] Pours reddish brown color, with a short-lived pink head. Subtle fruit aroma. Tart, mildly acidic raspberry flavors mix with a somewhat weak malt background. Finish is very dry, with a touch of woodiness. Not really something I’d pick up again, even if it comes in a fancy box.