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Framboise
Hopfenstark
- From:
- Hopfenstark
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 8.12%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 12, 2015
- Added:
- Jun 01, 2008
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
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Reviewed by rudzud from Massachusetts
3.64/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Enjoyed at the Pro Pig in Waterbury, VT. Reviewed from notes.
A- Pours a pale, pale slightly cloudy wheat like hue with a thin blanket of a head that leaves a thin halo. Cant stress how pale this is, palest beer ever?
S - Light almost what notes with super faint raspberries. REALLY have to go looking for raspberries here and what I find is more of the raspberry candy than berries. Faint sourness. Just all very faint and watery smelling.
T - Taste isn't much better. Some light wheaty yeasty fun. Super faint berries once more and very light sour notes. All super subtle with light floral raspberries. Again, comes across a bit on the thin side.
M - Mouthfeel is lighter bodied with nice carbonation. Again, a bit thin.
O - Overall his was just a weird beer for me. That wheat throws me off and I kinda miss the sour/funk that makes a beer of this style. Meh.
Apr 10, 2013A- Pours a pale, pale slightly cloudy wheat like hue with a thin blanket of a head that leaves a thin halo. Cant stress how pale this is, palest beer ever?
S - Light almost what notes with super faint raspberries. REALLY have to go looking for raspberries here and what I find is more of the raspberry candy than berries. Faint sourness. Just all very faint and watery smelling.
T - Taste isn't much better. Some light wheaty yeasty fun. Super faint berries once more and very light sour notes. All super subtle with light floral raspberries. Again, comes across a bit on the thin side.
M - Mouthfeel is lighter bodied with nice carbonation. Again, a bit thin.
O - Overall his was just a weird beer for me. That wheat throws me off and I kinda miss the sour/funk that makes a beer of this style. Meh.
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Tap at Pro Pig in Waterbury.
Hazy cloudy straw wheat like color, very little head.
Nose wild sour, lambicus wild, sour tart fruity, light raspberry, hint bready yeast funk,
Taste starts with light yeasty funk, watery overall malt, lacto or lambicus sour funk, not super funk, nice tartness, some raspberry, sour raspberry mostly, light tannic seed and stem like vinous quality, some wheat flavors too which is different for a sour, also why it seems thin. Finish is funky yeast, more tannic stem and sour raspberry, little sticky, syrupy, hint bready.
Mouth is lighter bodied, little watery, decent carb, not really flemmy or super tart.
Overall ok but nothing great, nice raspberry and decent sour lambicus fruit, but quite thin and wheat adds a weird overall quality, and missing the really sour funk, flemmy bready taste, etc. It's decent but just seems like it's missing a few things.
Mar 01, 2013Hazy cloudy straw wheat like color, very little head.
Nose wild sour, lambicus wild, sour tart fruity, light raspberry, hint bready yeast funk,
Taste starts with light yeasty funk, watery overall malt, lacto or lambicus sour funk, not super funk, nice tartness, some raspberry, sour raspberry mostly, light tannic seed and stem like vinous quality, some wheat flavors too which is different for a sour, also why it seems thin. Finish is funky yeast, more tannic stem and sour raspberry, little sticky, syrupy, hint bready.
Mouth is lighter bodied, little watery, decent carb, not really flemmy or super tart.
Overall ok but nothing great, nice raspberry and decent sour lambicus fruit, but quite thin and wheat adds a weird overall quality, and missing the really sour funk, flemmy bready taste, etc. It's decent but just seems like it's missing a few things.
Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania
3.61/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.61/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Thanks to Ffej for the share on this one. 750ml into a snifter. The brew appears a pale yellow slightly hazed with a white fizzy cap that is quick to dissolve. A swirl revives a couple bubbles that again collapse quickly.
This smells like a sort of fruity yogurt. Some wheat-like grain inclusion is present across the nose along with a seedy inclusion of raspberry. It is quite tame but natural smelling.
The tastes is mutually wheat-like with a brisk tartness. A flavoring of greek yogurt mixes with hints of cheese. That seedy natural raspberry flavor is present across the back that lasts into the aftertaste.
This is a light bodied brew with a modest amount of effervescent carbonation. It is light and effortlessly drinkable almost watery and too light at times to be a framboise. Had I not had a level of expectation and if i was given this blindly, I would have assumed this to be a berliner weisse. I liked it.
Jan 25, 2013This smells like a sort of fruity yogurt. Some wheat-like grain inclusion is present across the nose along with a seedy inclusion of raspberry. It is quite tame but natural smelling.
The tastes is mutually wheat-like with a brisk tartness. A flavoring of greek yogurt mixes with hints of cheese. That seedy natural raspberry flavor is present across the back that lasts into the aftertaste.
This is a light bodied brew with a modest amount of effervescent carbonation. It is light and effortlessly drinkable almost watery and too light at times to be a framboise. Had I not had a level of expectation and if i was given this blindly, I would have assumed this to be a berliner weisse. I liked it.
Reviewed by Rutager from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Thanks Deadbolt82!!
Appearance. Pours a very hazy straw-gold with two fingers of fluffy white head that fades quickly.
Smell. Sugary red berries, funky yeast and some slightly sour, grainy wheat.
Taste. Funky brett!, some lightly sour wheat, lemon, a bit of sweet floral raspberry and even some strawberry with a bit of grassy hops. Nice!
Mouthfeel. Lighter body, medium-strong carbonation.
Overall. A very nice beer with a good amount of funky brett. I'd love to have this one at my local beer store!
Sep 26, 2012Appearance. Pours a very hazy straw-gold with two fingers of fluffy white head that fades quickly.
Smell. Sugary red berries, funky yeast and some slightly sour, grainy wheat.
Taste. Funky brett!, some lightly sour wheat, lemon, a bit of sweet floral raspberry and even some strawberry with a bit of grassy hops. Nice!
Mouthfeel. Lighter body, medium-strong carbonation.
Overall. A very nice beer with a good amount of funky brett. I'd love to have this one at my local beer store!
Reviewed by peensteen from Canada (ON)
3.88/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.88/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Hazy blonde colour, about a finger of super dense white head, nice lace as well. Smell is of raspberry, some wheaty and malty scents, a bit of acidic lemon as well, lightly funky at points also. Taste follows the nose, raspberry and other fruits, lemon zest and perhaps orange, citrus, light acidity, malt and wheat with more berry in the finish and aftertaste. Medium carbonation, medium body. A nice raspberry beer where the raspberry doesn't beat you over the head, the lemony citrus was nice too, good on a nice hot day.
Aug 09, 2012
Framboise from Hopfenstark
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
29 ratings
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