Noble Star Collection: Framboise Du Nord
August Schell Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

750 mL bottle. Red body with a fleeting white head. Smells of acidic raspberry and some wheat. Tastes of wheat up front followed by lemon tartness. Raspberry flavor starts off slightly sweet and jammy before becoming quite tart, but only for a brief moment. Finishes grainy. Medium body and well carbonated. Tasty berliner, very fruit forward, but not so much so that the beer is lost.

On tap. Poured a clear reddish color with a small, pink head of foam. It smelled of tart raspberries, wheat and hints of lemon. Very nice tart raspberry flavor with a subtle wheat finish.

Poured from 750ml bottle into glass. Label has bottling date as 'SEPT 2017',
Cloudy, pinkish red colored body, with short lived pinkish white head. No lacing.
Lemon and raspberries on the nose.
Tart, with a touch of sweetness, taste of lemonade with pronounced raspberry component.
Rather dry, medium mouth feel. Lower level of carbonation.
Very pleasant Berliner, with the semi-sweet raspberry addition. Cypress wood tanks add some barrel nose and flavor.

 

 

Vibrant Santa suit red with a thin blanket that manages to eek out some fine layers of lace on the glass, this has a good expression of sour raspberry with a bit of a lactic angle, but it's overall clean, and sort of like a popsicle with a crisp medium body and semi-wet finish.

 

 

 

 

it always shocks me that the same brewery that makes grain belt also makes these incredible berliners. this is killer beer, super heavy on the raspberry, they werent shy with it at all. its a somewhat opaque brick red color, less blood red and jammy than others, more deep, very very bubbly. it has a great aroma where the tartness of the berries and the lacto tartness team up to create a very mouthwatering smell, really lemony too with all the raspberries, and a lot less sweet than it looks like it should be. the flavor starts with the fruit tartness and moves into a relatively sour bacterial finish, but unlike many other fruited berliners, i can still taste the wheat malt base, and its dry and crackery and necessary to keep this from tasting like juice. lots of wood on this too, mild vanilla, soft edges despite the acidity, tastes quite mature. i think the bottle here is fairly old too, so it may have evolved some since it was released. the most impressive thing here for me is how dry this is, but how well the raspberry flavor still comes through. i like the ultra low abv too. awesome carbonation and overall a great take on the berliner. this series has really been incredible. i hope they keep it up!