Raving for Raspberries
Sometimes when tasting a beer, you can pick up subtle traces of fruit flavors. A classic example is Magic Hat’s #9 with its light apricot taste. There are other times, however, when the tasting experience is totally flipped and you find yourself picking up subtle traces of beer.
The Framboise St. Louis lambic is more raspberry juice than beer; however, it works. It works wonderfully. It works so well that I want to stand up and shout it! This wildly tasty beer with a slightly bitter, acidic taste has a beautiful head and a deep clear raspberry red color, which gives off an amazingly sweet fruity smell. Don’t let the kiddie-like raspberry association fool you- this is an excellent beer with a hallmark lambic acidic beer taste.
This is a must try beer for any adventurous soul. You’ll probably find, however, the adventure is in the finding of this rare beer, but the taste will be well worth the search.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
[…] Probably because it sits next to Zima on a store’s shelf, I’ve never tasted nor considered buying hard cider. I did however, find myself tasting an apple beer (not hard cider mind you) recently, which pleasantly surprised me. This Belgian creation, known as Floris Apple, reminds me slightly of the Framboise beer reviewed recently as it effectively combines a fruit with the bitter hoppiness of beer. The aroma is obviously apple-like but not like that of breakfast apple juice- more like hops with a fruity apple essence. The taste is all beer with the pleasant citric fruitiness of sweet apple. If anything, I’d say it’s a Granny Smith sourness taste that works wonderfully. […]