Fantôme Automne

Brewed by Brasserie Fantôme
Style: Saison
Soy-Erezée, Belgium

Serve in Tulip

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Würziger, deutlich kräuterartiger Antrunk in entsprechender Intensität. Süßlich, intensiv, rund. Weiter nach Kräutern, sehr ausgewogen. Zum Ende deutlich milder, dennoch würzig. Ein breites Aromenspektrum! 9/10/11/12/9/11

Bottle, bought @ EG.
Murky darkish orange with a medium, fizzy, off-white head. Aroma is sweet, some good orange peel, light white pepper, fat bready malts and a bit of caramel. Light funk. Highish prickly carbonation, light and kinda dry mouthfeel. Flavour is mild at first, sugary sweetness, mild caramel, lemony zest with orange peel. Dryish and light spicy end with white pepper and coriander. Not the most impressive Fantome, but it’s still good.

750ml bottle (Alvinne Beershop)
6 Not a big aroma by any means. What’s there is earthy and leathery, and definitely sour, with a clear spike of acidity.
4 Hazy orange, brief head.
Palate 4 - woh - what a smack in the chops. Crisp, tart and acidic, and with pleasant crispness from the carbonation. Taste 7 - Retronassals are dark tart berries, balanced with lighter tart berries. Some muddy yeastiness too, which spoils it a bit. That continues in the taste, the acidity comes through more, fighting with ferns and undergrowth for front place.
Finish 4 - That acidity coats the mouth quite convincingly, it’s a real cheek scraper. Fills out with some nice wheat-bready light grains, and then some dry papery hops, which aren’t my favourite. They do fade though, and leave you with the lambic-like sourness on your lips.
14 Covers 8% very well, but not as well as a marriage parfait, if you like sharp sourness. The yeast has a little bit too much earthiness for my taste, alas, I prefer a crisper sour, or a less sour earthy beer.

Corked botte. pale amber color. Cloudy. Initial malt. Spicy citrus aroma. Tart lemon flavor with some coreander and anis. Well balanced, especially for a Fantome brew. Very nice!

Beautiful, orange beer with medium head. Aroma is strongly sour, fruitfull, cider, rosehips and whitewine like sourness. High alc. %, but still surprisingly light body with sparkling carbonation. Taste is strongly sour, quite dry, fruitfull, rosehips and whitewine; taste is very similar than aroma. Surprising, sour beer, but more complexicity would be great.

Bottle. Amber, hazy, average and fully diminishing head. Moderate, malty and dry sour aroma, spiciness (pepper, orange), light fruitiness and alcohol. Body is light to medium, malty and dry sour flavor, fruitiness, and light spiciness, yeasty. Finish is short to average, malty and dry, lightly sour and yeasty. Mediocre one from Fantome, there nicer ones from this brewery.

O,7l. bottle. Orange with not much head. A lot of berry aroma. Sea-buckthorns or sorbus maybe. Slightly grainy. Acids and yeast. Clementines AND STUFF. Gets better towards the end of the bottle. Veeery fruity. Both me and my friend kiwu, peach and grapfruit int this. Wonderful.

0.75 l bottle at Petalax Beer Festival 2010. Reddish brown color. Weird spicy and perfumed aroma with pepper, ginger and lingonberry. Tart and musty flavor with red currant, lingonberry and pepper. Spicy bitterness in finish. Very dry, tart and spicy. Original and weird taste.

Bottle 750ml. @ Petalax Beer Festival 2010 - the 4th. edition.

Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light roasted, moderate yeasty, barnyard, leather, fruity, light peppery. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100703]

My first Fantôme experience, sampled at l’Autre Oeil in Aylmer, Quebec. Pours a nice creamy head which is long lasting. Sediments are found at the bottom-half of the glass. Hazy amber-beige-orange colour with foamy lacing. The nose is a mix of Belgian yeast with hints of apples. Also earthy. There is a mild bitterness to the taste, from start to finish. Fruit is found and the background seems filled with candy. The mouthfeel is dry and slightly waxy. A berry feel is left in the mouth after the swallow. Quite refreshing for a strong brew. I enjoyed this one, and hope to taste many others from this micro-brewery.