6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
An unclear orange beer with a lacing head. The aroma is of lemon with sour notes from the wild fermentation. The flavor is of lemon, acid, and sourness. The body is thin.
Tried
on 12 Mar 2004
at 21:04
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
(750 ml "champagne" bottle, vintage 1997-98). Pours with an enormous lasting head. Cloudy golden colour. Lovely aroma of sour fruits, notes of spices and horse stable. Flavour is fruity, sour but not vinegar, a little tart. Quite dry. Reminds me of a brut champagne. Moreish aftertaste. Yummy!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2004
at 13:05
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2011-05-13, Vintage 2000, 11 years old, 75cl corked bottle, as Boon Framboise Marriage Parfait, 6.2% ABV, 8-5-8-4-16=41
Explosive bottle (by chance the cork doesn’t damage anything); it pours a clear red-amber color, while the generous head is compact and persistent, and has just a shade of pink. The fruity aroma is strong and evident, it reminds mostly of raspberry ice-cream. The carbonation is very high, as expected; therefore the mouthfeel is somehow smooth; the raspberry juice is more evident than the base lambic, although there is a nice degree of sourness it seems to come from the fruits mostly. Balanced and very enjoyable; not unique but elegant.
2006-07-11, Vintage 2000, 6 years old, 75cl corked bottle, as Boon Framboise Marriage Parfait, 6.2% ABV, 7-4-8-4-15=38
Hazy amber-ruby color. Clear aroma of raspberries and flowers. The taste is fruity, medium sourness, some astringency, some sugars, some tannins. The final is balanced. An elegant brew.
2004-02-29, Vintage 1997, 7 years old, 75cl corked bottle, as Boon Framboise, 6.2% ABV, 9-4-8-4-16=41
Copper color; persistent perlage. Wonderful aroma of wood, cask, cork, white pepper, light vinegar. Good mix of sugars with the sourness, tart; smooth (the age!), with a delicate fruitness, raspberries. Perfect balance!
Explosive bottle (by chance the cork doesn’t damage anything); it pours a clear red-amber color, while the generous head is compact and persistent, and has just a shade of pink. The fruity aroma is strong and evident, it reminds mostly of raspberry ice-cream. The carbonation is very high, as expected; therefore the mouthfeel is somehow smooth; the raspberry juice is more evident than the base lambic, although there is a nice degree of sourness it seems to come from the fruits mostly. Balanced and very enjoyable; not unique but elegant.
2006-07-11, Vintage 2000, 6 years old, 75cl corked bottle, as Boon Framboise Marriage Parfait, 6.2% ABV, 7-4-8-4-15=38
Hazy amber-ruby color. Clear aroma of raspberries and flowers. The taste is fruity, medium sourness, some astringency, some sugars, some tannins. The final is balanced. An elegant brew.
2004-02-29, Vintage 1997, 7 years old, 75cl corked bottle, as Boon Framboise, 6.2% ABV, 9-4-8-4-16=41
Copper color; persistent perlage. Wonderful aroma of wood, cask, cork, white pepper, light vinegar. Good mix of sugars with the sourness, tart; smooth (the age!), with a delicate fruitness, raspberries. Perfect balance!
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2004
at 04:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Off-white, frothy head, which is virtually not lacing and lasts mostly. Normally clear, amber body. Barnyard and cask wood sour aroma. Lightly acidic, lightly bitter initial flavour, heavily acidic, moderately bitter finish. Oily texture, fizzy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Mar 2004
at 06:44
9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
(Draught - of course) Spectacular carmine-red beer, slightly hazy; very rozy head. Superb noes of fruit or raspberry coulis. Taste is fruit, fruit and more fruit - raspberry as never before. Quite sweet but pure fruit-sweetness. (Fruit)acidity comes after a few sips. it is quite well-bodied - surprising. One asks how much fruit is used here? The beer is made from old lambic only, plus a slight cherry addition for the colour. Unique - rush at it if ever you come across.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2004
at 14:20
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark straw, clear; slim ring of foam. Lemon nose, bit lactic acid, whiff of Brett. Fruity acids, lemon, pineapple, bit of roasted malts (?!) in the taste. Light, slighty sticky (not artificial sweet) mouthfeel. Obvious, but not overdone sourish aftertaste. It's a good gueuze, no doubt. It's NOT the Moriau gueuze from grandpa Moriau - I would not have asked that much - but I still think Frank might have done more 'Mariage Parfait', for what once was the secret of the best gueuzedrinkers.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2004
at 17:46
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
1989 vintage. Awesome! One of the graduate students in my department cracked this bottle (unsold stock from a shuttered beer/wine store) after a slideshow. Very tasty after ~15 years. Poured cloudy orange-red with a quickly dissipating head that reappeared with a swirl of the glass. Loaded with yeast sediment (and a few chunks). Classic lambic aroma, very sour and tart with musty cheese rind notes. Cleary the sourest lambic I've tried, with an almost puckering sour, tart, woody flavor with cheese rind and dust. The cherries added to the tartness but their presence was surprisingly subdued; this is no "sweet" lambic, and the fruit flavor has all but vanished in the sour depths. This was a "love it or hate it" experience for those who tried it; I happen to be in the former camp. Nicely carbonated and a real treat!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2004
at 15:01
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from 1998Horseblanket and vinegary nose with a bit added cherry. Neon red, not much carbonation, low soapy white head. Sour citrus, wood and some barnyard flavors, not too sweet, low level cherry notes. Ligthbodied, dry mouthfeel. Quite pleasant and yeasy accesible without being too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2004
at 11:04
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled, 2002 vintage, 4.5% abv. Cloudy clear red. Sweet balsamic cherry aroma. Sweet and clean with lovely cherry flavour, but the body is thin, and the sugar makes it to sweet and deprives it of complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2004
at 11:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Black Label:
Clear golden colour with a thin off-white head. Very complex aroma of grass, wheat, coriander seed, a bit of sugars and som skunkyness. Light-bodied; Subtle wheat and floral tastes-a bit flat with some light spices showing through. Aftertaste clean-subtle wheat/geuze characteristics show through with some light sweetness. Overall a nice treat-definately worth trying at least once-even at $25! I sampled this 75 cL bottle from the Brickskellar in Washington, D.C. on 26-December-2003.
Clear golden colour with a thin off-white head. Very complex aroma of grass, wheat, coriander seed, a bit of sugars and som skunkyness. Light-bodied; Subtle wheat and floral tastes-a bit flat with some light spices showing through. Aftertaste clean-subtle wheat/geuze characteristics show through with some light sweetness. Overall a nice treat-definately worth trying at least once-even at $25! I sampled this 75 cL bottle from the Brickskellar in Washington, D.C. on 26-December-2003.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2003
at 18:49