Sharp red fruits, astringent, wood, lots of red fruits, i find it too sharp tbh..

Sharp red fruits, astringent, wood, lots of red fruits, i find it too sharp tbh..

Raspberry lambic ('framboise') flavoured with rosemary, sample at Wild in Groningen. Thin, open, off-white, small-bubbled head on a cloudy tomato juice-like red beer with mauve-ish tinge. Strong aroma of indeed fresh rosemary, lots of red raspberry too, tomato juice, parsley, Bloody Mary even, lime, white pepper, sour apples, yoghurt. Very fruity onset, lots of raspberry acidity mixed with lactic sourness, tomato note, sour apple and red berry impressions, softish carbonation; supple body, a slender bready backbone completely soaked in fruity, juicy, tart raspberry and lambic acids, woody note, lots of 'floweriness' growing into strong rosemary herbality with very 'mediterranean' effect. Original, quite easily drinkable if you are into lambic like myself, with a peculiar Bloody Mary-like effect, coming from the tomato-like aspect of the raspberries mingling with this 'green' herbality from the rosemary... Enjoyable and quite unique, if this is the level of flavour this Pellicle project - founded by an old Bruges acquintance - achieves, then I must find more Pellicle beers, challenging as that may be in view of the very limited production.