Fantôme Black Ghost

Brewed by Brasserie Fantôme
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Soy-Erezée, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottled sample consumed with oakbluff. Dark amber in colour with strong carbonation. Aromas are of funk, nutmeg, allspice, licorice, damp earth, and sour candies. Flavors are of more cooking spices, funk, and grapefuit pith, before getting very dry and astringent. Light bodied. A very strange brew and not the best from this brewery, but drinkable nonetheless.

What is this? Don’t know what year this was brew. It has a best for 2014 label. Maybe an 08. Light reddish body. Slight sour aroma. Tangy body. Spice. Not a Belgian Strong Ale as you would expect. Tasty in a refreshing way. Any fruit flavors feel a bit laid back. Maybe needs to warm. I’m getting some apple and cherry in the body.

Bottle shared at puzzl’s place: Pours a deep hazy copper with a wispy tan film of head. Unique aroma- some mild lactic tart presence, a white wine vinous presence, subtle cocoa and dry phenols. Slick body. Tart vinous flavor- some underlying dusty cocoa-like malt notes and a subtle herbal spices. A residual lactic tartness is there as well. Like always from Mr. Prignon, a unique and complex ale.

750 ml bottle shared by maxxdaddy. Pours hazy brown with a thinning fizzy head. Aroma is sweet slick diacetyl butter, herbal minty notes, pine and spruce, oregano and juniper berry with some bacterial funky infection- lactic and earthy moldy. Flavor is a bit stale old hops and malt, sherry, paper and oxidation, light soy and some old burnt toffee and black charred malts, herbal spicy grassy, mint and pine with a mineral and metallic-like harshness in the finish with more lactic acid- mildly sour.

not sure what version I had, but shared at Andy’s tasting (my first fantome brew)- arouma is vingar with a little flat oxidation. Whatever acids are in there are a little throat-burning, with some saltiness mixed in and also hits the tip of the tongue. Some fruity and grass notes in there, but all sort of hard to identify. This beer definitely seems to be hit or miss.

Corked and capped 750 mL bottle courtesy of Skyview. Thanks! Not much to look at as it pours a murky, purplish brown muddy looking mess. Thin head with decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of cherries, berries and a mild earthy funkiness. Taste is dry earthy notes, citrus, plum, apple, berries and an herbal finish. Medium bodied.

27th October 2008. Cloudy brown beer. A pleasant citrus sour start rapidly mutates in to a very dry and slightly spicy beer. The ending is suprisingly watery for it’s abv making this beer slightly hard work.

Deep amber pour with spotted offwhite head. Aroma of belgian yeast, dust, straw. Flavor is dry, yeasty, light sour note. Dust, straw, hay. maybe some cherries and a hint of spice. A bit of strawberries. Pretty crazy beer. Mouthfeel is pretty big, lively carbonation. Finishes kind of sour. I like it.

750 ml capped and corked bottle generously sent to me by alagnak. Pour is a cloudy murky brown burnt orange with a minimal off white head. It was striking just how murky this beer was from start to finish - I had made a point to keep it settled, and was expecting at least the first pour to be less clouded. Aroma of dusty dry straw, some herbal medicinal sweetness and the Fantôme yeast. Actually fairly subdued by Fantôme standards. Taste is a grainy, slight smoke, herbal and citric sweet. The yeast takes over the finish with the herbal medicinal Fantôme flavors. Just a bizarre mix of flavors, jutting out all over the place. In many beers this wouldn’t work for me, but there is something about the yeast in the back that ties it all together. Weird, but compelling. Palate is medium to heavy, coats the mouth a bit, long yeasty finish - some mild alcohol notes in the back. Thanks for sending this my way Chris, much appreciated.

Bottle:   Deep amber, reddish hue, thin off-white head, moderate sudsy light beige head.   Musty barnish nose, a little roasty and black like malts on the tongue.   Tart and dry as well, mild sweetness.   Barnish, a little malty.   Not as bright as others.   Perhaps that’s the intent.   Meatier Saison by all means but not as tart or dry as other examples.   Odd duck.