Bacchus Nitro Frambozenbier - Raspberry Beer
Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck in Emelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Score
6.10
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
The aromas are basically raspberries with hints of malt and floral. Flavors are similar to nose, again mainly raspberries, sweet tart and not too complex. Okay body and fairly clean finish. Good enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Raspberry and water. A little lime and a hint of barley. Pretty thin aroma overall. Also didn't help that I just had a raspberry tart before. Red pour with decent head. Light sweet finish with a hint of lip balm. Can.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3
The nitro version of the raspberry beer in Van Honsebrouck’s Bacchus series, originally an ‘oud bruin’ meant to compete with Rodenbach; this one comes from a can saturated with nitrogen and is one of five or six such canned nitro beers currently marketed by the brewery. Pale greyish off-white, very small-bubbled, breaking and dissipating head on a clear brownish-burgundy red beer with vermillion glow. Aroma very strongly dominated by raspberry in a very artificial way – raspberry Fruitella candy and raspberry extract ‘pur sang’, even a bit cough syrup-like, ice tea, some caramel, very subtle fruit yoghurt, vague background whiff of soggy bread. Very sweet onset, tooth-cloying and lemonade-like, sugary with this artificial raspberry bubblegum flavour dominating everything; light associations of apple juice and cassis too, soft carbonation – indeed fine-bubbled as expected from a nitro beer but lacking in the creaminess nitro usually offers as well; slick caramelly and bubblegummy middle with a faint metallic edge, very light sourishness but nowhere near the ‘real’ lactic acidity of an actual oud bruin, sugar and ‘fake’ raspberry ruling supreme till the very end, even if in the last stage, a very light toasty-bitterish malt accent briefly pops up. Sickly sweet raspberry lemonade from a can – this is not even a shadow of the original Bacchus Frambozenbier, with only the vaguest resemblance to oud bruin, if any. Van Honsebrouck just keeps evolving from bad to worse, I have the impression…