3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
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]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
[Vintage 2000 - sampled January 2004 - read 7.2% ABV on the label] The beer was very lively when uncorked. The aroma is very spicy - but I'm not able to tell the spices. The color is orange and it has a huge white head though collapsing. The flavor is fruity with loads of spicys; banana, peach, cloves, lemon, corriander, and many more. The end is lemony but still somewhat dry. An interesting beer, but more special, than one I'll go back for. But I'm happy to have sampled it.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
(Bottle 75 cl) Pilsener golden and presumably filtered - unusual for Fantome. Rocky, shaving foam-like head. Splendidly fresh almost citrusy nose. Starts perfumy and tempting with a dryness like what you find in gin, but then you’re hit by an almost paralyzing bitterness. Way too much for my liking. 170202
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
From 75 cL bottle thanks to dr Bill. Pours murky brown with an unclean brown speckled tan head. Aroma is light woody and mild acidic. Seems oxidised. Flavour is mild woody,dark fruity and with light acidic touch. Mild spiced too. Ends with a woody and oxidised note. Past it’s prime by far, but nice to try!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled. Hazy ambery brown colour, small white head. Aroma is spicy, barnyardy and also has some grains and earth in it. Flavour is spices, barnyard, yeast, mould and some fruits carrying it up. Nicely balanced and very complex.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Lightly hazy amber, lively head. Yeasty winegum aroma with lemongrass and coriander. Sweet, citric and juicy, dense and very lively with underlying fruitiness. Champagne-like and elegant with herbal, somewhat resiny bitterness.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled, thanks to René.
Hazy orange coloured with an off white head.
Acidic aroma with lots of fruits and wood.
Acidic fruity flavour of wood.
Hoppy finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. A little sourish aroma. Quite cloudy orange colour. Dry, sourish flavour. I guess I can taste a little malt in the aftertaste too.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Golden color; giant head, nice perlage. Pleasant aroma of malt and wood; getting fruiter when warmer. Rich body, immediately aggressive with a strong bitterness, turning to be a bit fruiter at the end (apricots; Morello cherries). A lot of old hops in the final.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Date: 01/21/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Green’s, Atlanta
clear amber, big cream head, sweet spicy aroma with just the right amount of musky funk, lots of dripping lace, creamy body, nice spices, easy drinking balanced ale with no distinctive character, creamy and spicy funk, light bitterness,
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4
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