Top-fermented fruit beer by this brand, originated as a kind of quiet Achouffe spin-off deeply hidden in the Ardennes many years ago but having become commercially very active in the past years; bottle from a Delhaize supermarket, stating an ABV of 4.2% rather than the 4.0% given here. The fruit in question is described on the label as cherry and raspberry juice - an ominious sign. Frothy, pillowy, strongly cobweb-lacing, pale pinkish white, very stable and dense head on a lightly hazed deep vermillion red beer with deep fuchsia glow. Aroma - from half a yard away - of sweet red Haribo candy (something I utterly detest even in a non-beery context), 'poepegatjes' as some say in Flanders, granulated sugar and grenadine, artificial raspberry as in industrial raspberry candy and artificial cherry as in cherry candy, light undertones of white soap, white bread, grass, leftover dough and apple peel but hardly anything of whatever blonde basic beer they used has remained recognizable under this truckload of red candy. The same misery unfolds in the mouth: a sugary sweetness immediately clinging to the teeth, fizzy carb and a lemonade-like effect of Fanta Red Fruit, Haribo candy and grenadine; raspberry weighs in a bit more than (obviously sweet) cherry, but both give a very artificial and 'forced' impression which has everything to do with industrial extracts and syrups and nothing with real fruit. The mere stickiness of the sugars add a fake kind of 'fullness', but the actual beer underneath is little more than a 'skeleton' of cereals, hardly recognizable under all that sugar and obnoxious red fruit syrup. Only in the very end does a faint and volatile bitterness show up, feeling a tad wry and not necessarily coming from hops, but the 'sticky red lemonade' effect dominates the whole thing from beginning to end. After swallowing, I feel like I could just as well have had a Fanta Red Fruit or something alike - which I assume was exactly the brewery's intention. Well, I guess there is still an audience for this kind of childish red candy beers, even though I was silently hoping this ridiculous and senseless trend was fading away under the pressure of hop-forward and other 'craft' beers. I must have underestimated how ignorant and conservative the average Belgian consumer is, because apparently this non-beer is successful enough to make it to the supermarket shelves... I remember 2006, when this brewery - still called Trois Fourquets back then - did a collab with Brooklyn's Garrett Oliver in a wonderful DIPA called La Brooklynette; ending up with this fifteen years later is nothing less than evolution turned completely backwards. Shame on you, Lupulus!