100 Barrel Series #11 - Framboise
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
5.79
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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Session #11:
Hazy reddish coloured body with a nice ruby tint and a thinnish off-white head that ends up fading fast. Nice aroma of pure raspberries, icing sugar, malt and some funky fruityness near the end that lingers. Light to Medium-bodied; Tart raspberry taste up front not showing much in the palate with a decent maltyness and a subtle sweetness. Aftertaste shows some puckering fruityness with some sugared sweetness and not much else. Overall, not a good beer - this one is lacking very much, even for a small-production fruit-beer. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from K&E Discount Beverage in New Paltz, New York on 24-December-2005.
Hazy reddish coloured body with a nice ruby tint and a thinnish off-white head that ends up fading fast. Nice aroma of pure raspberries, icing sugar, malt and some funky fruityness near the end that lingers. Light to Medium-bodied; Tart raspberry taste up front not showing much in the palate with a decent maltyness and a subtle sweetness. Aftertaste shows some puckering fruityness with some sugared sweetness and not much else. Overall, not a good beer - this one is lacking very much, even for a small-production fruit-beer. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from K&E Discount Beverage in New Paltz, New York on 24-December-2005.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2009
at 22:17
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a hazy reddish colour with a small white head. Sweet raspberry aroma. Sweet malty, fruity raspberry flavor with some sourness. Malty finish with some sourness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2006
at 14:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 oz bottle for the Enore edition, I guess the first time was not bad enough. i mean its a pretty beer, dark ruby colored with a pink head. Smell is all raspberry, some tarty raspberry. Kind of perfumey as well though. Taste is a it nasty though. Taste like vegetables with a cickening raspberry flavor to cover it up. It does semm acidic at the end or more like a weird sharp flavor. When will I stop doing this to myself. I tell you one thing though, I will not buy the Bohemian Pilsner, i have had enough with this series.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2006
at 21:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
2005 Session 11 22oz. Pours hazy rose into a footed pilsner. Offwhite head quickly dissipates. Raspberry aromas. Light raspberry up front which turns to slight bitter finish.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2006
at 13:46
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
From Immy’s Tasting. Hazy light amber color with a thin off-white head. Sweet honey-like aroma. Sweet fruity flavor, somewhat watery.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2006
at 20:46
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Why do I keep trying these Harpoon 100 Barrel beers? Would I continue to patronize a restaurant that served me a steak covered in live fly larvae? Nay! And yet I continue to imbibe these half-baked, masturbatory "experiments." Anyway, to the beer - pours a dark cloudy red with a fizzy head that disappears completely, leaving it looking like a glass of kool-aid - rather full aroma of fresh raspberries, some melon and a hint of musty, earthiness - thin and watery in the mouth - kind of tastes like watered-down fruit punch - sour raspberry flavors hide underneath a kind of stale grainy flavor - the finish is chalky, with the distinct taste of sea salt - raspberry-infused brine - probably the worst in this series so far.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2005
at 19:40
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
2005 bottle from Charles St Liquors, consumed 8/16/2005. Pours a (CLEAR) bright pink body, with some slightly darker raspberry-red notes in the mix. Initial white head is medium-sized, but fades away to a slight ring of bubbles on the edge before I can even pick the glass up to smell it. Beer is heavily filtered and artificially carbonated. There is no lacing on the glass. Aroma has some fresh raspberries, a bit of dust and paperiness and maybe a tinge of sweet malt. Flavor is, at least, not overly sweet. There is a raspberry flavor, followed by some vanilla. Reminds me alot of the raspberry cream life savers. Flavor is gone immediately on the finish, though before it goes, there is a brief instance of something you might call tartness. Drinkable, though, it’s not offensive. Obnoxious carbonation though, with HUGE bubbles, perhaps the biggest I have seen in a beer. Light bodied, thin and just a touch of sweetness. Very forgettable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2005
at 11:20