4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
2003 Draft at Cadieux Cafe in Detroit. Dark purple-red strawberry looking color, completely opaque with a solid light pink-cream head that sticks around for a while. Aroma of fresh raspberries, and wet towels. Good mix of sweetness and funk. Flavor is full and powerful, but fortunately, not as terribly sweet as the kriek. Big bold spicy raspberry flavor, quite authentic and not fake tasting. As it gets extremely sweet with raspberries the gueuze in the background picks up and a nice and much needed sourness comes on, slightly balancing this beer. Again, as with every Lindemans product I’ve tried, the lightly spritzy almost chewy carbonation gives it as good a texture as I could want. Like the Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock, there’s probably too much raspberry, but only a bit too much, and if you are in the mood for something sweet, this delivers. 7/5/7/3/16
Bottle at the 4/17/2005 Montreal tasting. Better than the cassis, and kriek, but terribly sweet and syrupy, like thick raspberry jam. I will average the ratings of this, since the draught version is significantly more palateable. 6/4/5/3/10
Update. No.
Tried
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on 19 Mar 2004
at 10:41