www.lindemans.be
Lindemans has been brewing in the little town of Vlezenbeek, Belgium since 1811. All of their beers are Lambic, a Belgian style of beer that uses wild yeasts or spontaneous fermentation. I've done a review of another fruit infused Lambic, Beer #41, Chapeau Apricot Lambic. For more information on Lambics, check out this Wikipedia Article. This particular brew is made by first brewing the Lambic and then adding fresh raspberries which create a secondary fermentation from the sugars in the raspberries creating further depth of flavour.
Framboise has a very deep red/rose colour with a frothy pink head, with good retention and good lacing.
It smells strongly of raspberries with the yeastiness and maltiness just creating undertones of scent.
The raspberries are very noticeable in the taste and take centre stage, the yeasty and malty notes come in and mingle with the raspberry. The maltiness comes in first and adds a depth and sweetness to the berries, when the yeastiness comes in it creates a fruit wine like taste as it bitters the raspberry a little. It finishes with the lingering of raspberry.
A nice refreshing raspberry brew, if you like beer and raspberries you will like this beer. It doesn't taste as sweet as a lot of the other fruit beers I've tried which is a nice change, it embraces the sour aspect of the raspberries which marries very well with the beer.
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