Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared by Johnny. Kind of bright, yet unclear, reddish with a distant purple hint colored beer, no head in the end. Aroma is raspberry, fruitpeel, tart, green apples. Flavor brings similar notes, with raspberries and sour tart red fruit up front more dominantly. Perhaps, after a while, there is some cognac to detect in the aroma and the flavor as well, however hadn't been on the bottle label I doubt I'd have detected it. Lovely beer though.

Hapu, kirsine, happeline, vaarikas, mineraalne. Ok.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5

Next to Charent'euse, a geuze blended with cognac barrel aged lambics, Boerenerf also recently released this Charent'oos, bottled in 2023 and made of young 'framboise' - or Framboos in Boerenerf's case, also containing redcurrant and a dash of cherry lambic (!) - blended with cognac barrel aged lambic. Strange, perhaps, that they did not age the actual Framboos in cognac barrels - I wonder what that would have produced, but who knows, we may find out one day. Bottle under high pressure, but no gushing. Initially medium thick, regularly shaped, pale pinkish-lilac-tinged off-white head, diminishing quickly and eventually vanishing completely; densely misty deep vermillion robe with a deep ruby shade but also a burgundy tinge, a tad darker and 'browner' than the regular Framboos, possibly the effect of the 'cognac lambic'. Complex, rustic nose of lots of red raspberries but here not only in a fresh but only a 'dried' kind of way, raspberry bushes even, pronounced old oak, wet clay, red plums, wild apples, barnyard, cherry pits, homemade tomato sauce (a typical raspberry effect), damp autumn leaves, unripe pear, lilies, sweat, wet leather, oxidized red wine, raw beetroot, stewed wild berries and indeed, when it all warms up and shows its true complexity, a very clear 'artisanal' cognac presence (as in Charenteuse - not as sweet as the big commercial brands tend to be) which gradually moves to the foreground and eventually covers the whole like a noble and mature spirit. Spritzy onset, a wealth of tangy, tart raspberries with a sweetish core and light umami effects but primarily sour (aided by the lambic's natural acids and the added redcurrants), with side notes of wild apples, purple gooseberries and red plums, minerally carbonated; after this youthful, pungent 'attack', a more sedate character slowly creeps in, ploughing through a bready-woody-earthy base and yoghurty lactic tartness. The red fruit acquires a more 'dried' and preserved character from that moment onwards, and even though its tangy sourness remains very present throughout (as well as a tomato-ish umami aspect), the oak and the cognac begin to prevail, with a more and more vinous and eventually almost cognac-based cocktail-like character, creating a dignified, long, layered ending to this fascinating play. As usual with lambics of this level of complexity, I wonder what prolonged ageing would do to it, but it already shows all the layeredness, nobility and vinosity one can expect from a 'cognac raspberry lambic'; this is truly taking the old 'framboise' to a whole new level. A fruit lambic with near-liqueurish and very vinous character: this is a precious thing to savour. Beautiful.