[The special version - the first bottles made] A hazy orange beer with a fine white head. The aroma is lovelywith strong notes of cloudberries as well as acid and grapefruit. The flavor is lovely too with the sourness drawing the mouthwater - it is quite lactic with lots of cloudberry notes. [The ordinary] Afar this beer has a strong aroma of cloudberries - but sticking your nose in the glass turns the aroma sour, with sweet and sharp notes - like a lambic. The color is a hazy orange and it has a good but collapsing head. The flavor is sharp, sour, and sweet - just like a wild-fermented beer should be. The cloudberries makes up a great background for the above mentioned flavors. A very special beer - but not as good as I had hoped. [8/3/7/3/16]

The name of this beer has had me quite baffled. Having looked at the diverse ratings makes it clear that: 1) it is not a draught raspberrylambic, but a bottled beer indeed 2) this beer has a multitude of beers having not a lot to do with each other. At least two ought to reclassified under the Lou Pepe Framboise. the Cuvée Mozart was a one-off from already sometime ago, heavy on the vanilla - like the guy's music. The ordinary bottled C. Framboise is called Rosé de Gambinus. Enfin, these days. So, I went searching in the cellar and brought up this bottle, calling itself just "Framboise Cantillon", and a little patch added by late my father indicated he'd bought this in October 1984. For a 20 year old beer, a gorgeous "plop" accompagnies the opening, visible CO2 steam coming out of the neck. The colour is undescribable, like old red gold, containing a lot of copper, has been polished and then liquified. Pinkish head, slowly dissipating. It is a if the raspberries have been added yesterday, following the nose. But also the smell of a more dangerous carbongas, from out of pressure container. And some sweet smell - I would wager saccharine. Tart, mouth-puckering taste, woody, sour fruit, to the extend of first-phase fruit after flowering. There is a flavour which foreknowledge tells me raspberry - but it could have been gosseberry as well. Little horseblanket, but definitely wood, sulphur and a bit of sherry. In the finish the fruit taste becomes more rounder and even sweeter. Strange: no smoky flavour, indicating saccharine in old beer. Super-dry, acidburn. WOW! just the level of preservation at its age makes this a marvel. But the things one has to do for getting all the entries at Ratebeer! The colour is out of this world.Earlier Rating: 7/23/2003 Total Score: 4.1(Fairly aged sample) Orange with pinkish shine. Head disappears whilst pouring. Beer becomes gradually more hazy as yeast looses. Nose of raspberries, wood, lemon, whiffs of horseblanket, soap and sulphur. More acidic burn than sourness. Fruit & lactic acids, yes, also acetic; fruity raspberry aroma and sour grapes-, or harvestapples flavours. Some sulphur, and also old, or even blue cheese impression. Refreshing, but too sharp acid-bite. Long adstringent aftertaste with multitude of fruity retronasal aromas. A harsh one - but no mistaking the real thing. The added vanilla flavour has disappeared with ageing. The raspberries are still there.

pale yellow, with both a greenish and a darker orange shine, fully hazy. Lively pearling to good white head, but dwindling to 1/2 cm head. "Horseblanket", citrussy nose, with hay, bit of wood, fruity. Very tart taste, sour, with an outspoken woody finish. taste of unripe fruit, citrussy, red- or whitecurrant, blueberry, some sulphur. Outspoken dry-out effect. Finish is mellower than taste would suggest. Very good gueuze, vying with the best. Has not a lot to look for at the Lou Pepe.

I've now completed the trinity of Lou Pepe's. Explosive red colour - lovely. Earthy, pitty kriek nose. Complex. A rich cherry pie - so much fruit in this one. It's a fun example for that reason, if a little unbalanced.