Fantôme Chocolat

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

[2610-20091127] 1pt9.4floz bottle. Peppery saison yeast aroma. Murky, light brown orange body with quick white bubbles. Sour peppery yeasty saison flavour. Medium body is a little sour. Really interesting, an odd combination as it is, can’t figure out if there’s a cocoa part though.
(c/o HogTownHarry, w/ him, blankboy, garthicus, GregClow, jerc)

Bottle at Delirium Café in Gothenburg in April 09. A little brownish color and a nice medium fluffy head. Smelled a little like the bottom of the sea, I think that something was a little weird with the bottle. Pepper and coffee some acid but sadly a disappointment.

Bottle at PP bottle shop. Skunky, either from Saaz hops or from being light struck, though I’m leaning toward the latter. Light tartness. Chocolate is there, but at a low level. I’m never sure what cultures are used for Fantome: Brett, Lacto, I’m not sure. Decent, but so far I’m not on the Fantome bandwagon.

750 mL bottle, capped & caged...approx 3 years old: generous ivory head...wonderful Fantôme yeast aromatics:peach fuzz, strawberries, and dusty hops-wisps of spice and cacao. Wonderful palate: tight bubbles and a tingly effervescence that delivers the complex flavours throughout the mouth. Funky sourdough meets lemon grass in a peach orchard, with memories of Brett dancing in my head. What a treat. I love swirling Fantôme beers around in my mouth. The finishing pour turns irony and metallic while the fruits are subdued and muted. These beers again prove why drinking beer is so fun: a constantly changing beverage for 2 hours the finish as good as the start, just entirely different! Thank you.

aged this for a couple years// lotsa yeasty goodness. nose is lemon all lemon, and maybe some spice but sooo lemon. flavor was funky a little barnyard and alot refreshing. really really liked this beer.

Oh, Fantome, cauldron of dark-winged mysteries and creativity, where did you go wrong with this one? Perplexingly blond for a "choclate" brew and sporting a fine, bubbly head. Jarringly funk-da-fied yeasty aroma with some Heinekin’s bitter skunk-funk toward the end. Viscous, syrupy wheatiness in the body, but neither a soupcon of cocoa, nor a scintilla of chili pepper prick. Funky and interesting, but inchoate and, overall, a disappointment.

Bottle. Bretty, delicate, nice apricot & nectarine, some malt and lemons in there as well. Vinous and funky, unique, but falls short of genius. Also, I have no idea what this has to do with chocolate.