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November 22, 2005
Fancy-Pants Beer
When we go out a fine watering hole with a flush selection of beers, I prefer to hoist all choice-making responsibility onto Noel's capable, curly-headed-capped shoulders. On a recent excursion to Hoppy's, he returned to the table with a dark, long-necked bottle, seemingly too small to be wine, but too stylish to be beer.
"What is that?" everyone asked, peering at the cream-colored label. Art noveau swirls looped cheerfully around...were those raspberries? It was a Lindeman's Framboise Lambic. Yes, it was a beer, and, yes, it did contain raspberries.
You may be wondering what a raspberry beer tastes like. And I will tell you, gentle reader, that it tastes like raspberries. Really, as Rebekah and I decided, it tastes like our girlhood conception of raspberry cordial, tangy, rich, and not at all bitter or snapping with alcohol.
The unexpected flavor only intensified my curiousity over what information the curlie-cued label was attempting to impart in its strange, foreign tongue. Lindeman's, it seems, is a family brewery located south of Brussels. Oh, and all their products are vegan. "Lambic" is a particular kind of beer, brewed in Belgium from 70% barley malt and 30% unmalted wheat and spontaneously fermented in the open air. You can't make these things up. Not all lambics are fruit-infused, but fruit lambics are among the more popular Belgian beers, with flavors ranging from the relatively tame raspberry, cherry, and currant, to the surprising banana, pineapple, apricot, plum, and lemon. Whew.
All that to say that this fancy-pants beer was a strange bedfellow for the dim, smokey room, retro booth, french fries, and chicken fingers. But hey, perhaps this is what drinking postmodernly is all about.
Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts | By elissa | 11:51 AM
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I just had a Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic for the first time and wa spleased with it. Normally I wouldn't put fruit and beer together, but his worked out well. It's in the Samual Adams winter Holiday variety pack at your local grocery store.
Posted by: andyp at November 23, 2005 03:12 AM
