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Lindemans Framboise if you want to sip something session-light that tastes like actual fruit,
Mad Scientist Apricot Ale if you want more body and a beer that happens to have fruit in it.
The Lindemans is a lambic—wild yeast, funky baseline, raspberries doing the talking. Mad Scientist swings heavier on the ABV and IBU, so you're getting more of a traditional ale structure with apricot layered on top. Different animals entirely.
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Lindemans Framboise
Lindemans Framboise hits like drinking chilled raspberry juice with a gentle fizz and a barely-there tartness underneath. The 2.5% ABV means you're not fighting any alcohol heat; the lambic's natural funk—that slightly musty, slightly vineyard-floor thing—sits quietly behind the fruit. It's almost dry despite the raspberry sweetness. Dangerous in the best way: you can demolish three of these without realizing it.
Mad Scientist Apricot Ale
Mad Scientist's Apricot Ale tastes like someone made an amber ale, then added actual apricot nectar to the grain bill. There's real body here—caramel malt backbone you can feel—and the apricot sits on top like a garnish that actually matters. The 4.5% gives it weight. It's sweeter, more dessert-like, less funky. Feels closer to a fruit cocktail in beer form than a true fruit beer hybrid.
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