Bottle. No date anywhere to be found. Light copper-gold with some darker maize hues. Relatively small white head for the style. Aroma is lightly tannic and tart, but has a sharper flavor, like a mix of soda water and lemon juice. Bitter almost, perhaps white vinegar comes to mind. Flavor is tart, solid medium to medium-full body, texture is coarse, sharp almost. Seems very young, though it is not syrupy or too sweet, just very rough. Little complexity to be found, just a solid yeast tartness. Light pinot grigio notes on the finish.

Bottle. Malty, sweet aroma, hint of liquorice. Dark brown colour, some floaties. Big bright head, very stable. Flavour is a bit thin, with some liquorice. Fruity liquorice aftertaste. Quite nice, but would be really great with less water. Reminds me of a dunkel rather than a Belgian type beer.

1997 front label, 1996 back label, go figure. 750mL bottle shared with Bucknaked on 4/30/2005
Pour reveals a light pink-tinged yellow head that is initially quite full and thick, but rapidly dissipating. I’m just impressed that it poured a head at 8-9 years of age. Body is a deep magenta-amber-orange, growing somewhat dull purple as more sediment is added to the glass. And sediment there is, yeast or protein floaties and a black silt-like substance (raspberry seeds?). Aroma is just incredible for a fruit lambic of this age. I would not expect this much fresh, real raspberry purée smell from it. Thick, lightly sweet and ripe smelling, it smells of fresh red raspberries concentrated in to a luscious beer nose, with only slight, slight tannic notes in the background. A hint of caramel-like aroma, perhaps, as well. After the impressively fruity-sweet nose, I wasn’t too surprised to find the flavor going a bit overboard on the sweetness. Mind you the body is not syrupy, and is fairly on par with the aged MP gueuze I tried, that is to say, quite soft and not watery, but tingly and supportive of the flavors. But the flavor is just too much red raspberry preserves. Some smooth, rich vanilla bean flavors as well. I get very little tannins from this (though they are present to some extent), and I daresay, no real traces of any sour lacto, or pedio here, certainly nothing one would expect from a perfectly married lambic. But that is F. Boon, I guess. I appreciate that the fruit is real flavored, not some syrupy-sweet medicine, but comparing this to, say, Rose de Gambrinus or Lou Pepe Framboise it falls far, far short. Glad, as always, to try it though. For mouthfeel I’d give it near a 5, but the balance (all sweetness, for the most part) brings my palate score way down.

An unclear dark brown beer with a disappearing off-white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of prunes. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of roasted malt and prunes.

[Brewed by Moriau] An opaque dark red beer with a disappearing pink head. The aroma is sweet with notes of cherries and dust. The flavor is very sweet and only slightly acidic with strong notes of cherries and lesser notes of citrus.

Bottle. Semi-cloudy, dark golden colour. Small head. Acidic and earthy aroma and flavour. 6 3 6 3 13

2003 bottle, 6 years old, at ZBF09. Mild cellar aroma. Clear amber colour. The flavour is very mildly citric with a little mold and a distinct oak flavour. Tastes like a mild geuze lagered on used oak casks. Rather high carbonation. 8 3 7 3 16

Bottled, corked 375ml, 2002 vintage, alc. 4.5% (BB 09/2007)
Hazy deep cherry red, small creamy red head, some lace. Cherry and vinegar aroma, slightly metallic. Sour and tart cherry taste. Very dry, not sugary at all, so propably sweetness folds out when this is a bit aged. Some earthy notes too. Palate is actually quite watery, should have "more taste". Anyhow well-balanced lambic.

1993 750mL bottle drank January 2005. Light honey yellow color with some light orange tints, plenty of sediment and a small, weak white head. Aroma contains notes of hay, wet grass, musty stable air and light lemons. Flavor, having almost 12 years to settle down, is, not surprisingly, not spectacularly sour. Very easy-going, with still a lovely tartness of yeast, lemons, light dough and angel food cake. Some warm tones from the sweet malt brace the tart notes. Finish has light citrus, barnyard and creamy bleu cheese. Mouthfeel is, perhaps, the highlight. The experience could have been lessened by a tired, thin mouthfeel, but this was not the case. Even and soft, with an almost creamy consistency that add fantastically to the dough and bleu cheese flavors. Ends on a nutty, mild yeast note, with plenty of honey sweetness. I could easily drink a bottle of this in about 5 minutes if I was really thirsty.