Framboise River Framboise River Framboise River is an estuarine river in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Framboise River (CAMVI) is an estuary that extends to the northwest from Seal Rocks and Framboise Cove on the coast to where Bagnells River (Bagnells Lake), Middle River Framboise and Northeast Framboise River converge. Strachans Brook and Mary Anns Brook enter the estuary from the south. The mouth of the river is at . The community of Framboise, Nova Scotia, lies to the southwest of the river. "Framboise" means raspberry in French, and probably was given as a descriptive name by the early settlers.
Lambic Belgian fruit beers, the use of names such as kriek, framboise or frambozen, cassis, etc. does not necessarily imply that the beer is made from lambic. The fruit beers produced by the Liefmans Brewery, for example, use an oud bruin, rather than a lambic as a base. Many of the non-traditional fruit beers derived from lambic that were commercialized in the last decades are considered to be low quality products by many beer enthusiasts. These products are typically artificially sweetened, artificially carbonated, sterilized, and based on syrups instead of whole fruit. Lambic beers are only produced within 500 kilometres of