Fantôme Hiver (Winter)

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

Bottle at bier circus 2002-vintage. Hazy orange brown coloured with a beige head. Aroma of dried fruits, port wine and chocolate with notes of wood. Flavour of dried fruits, sherry and wood. Nice.

Bottle 鼮ml) shared at ’Biegaman’s Summer Gathering’ -- courtesy of viggo. Pours a cloudy orange-amber with a small diminishing fluffy white head. Aroma’s sweet and slightly sour with some fruit, faint spices, hops and what smells like rust or wet copper. Flavour of slightly sour fruit, spices, yeast, some hops and a surprisingly bitter finish -- a touch watery maybe? Alcohol’s pretty well hidden. Medium bodied. Unique, even for Fantome, and quite enjoyable.

Apricot orange pour, hissing and exhibiting a foggy glass transparency. Sour green apples and goat cheese on the nose. Wet and animalistic. Tastes quite bright in comparison. Spritzes of lemon juice souring everything between small nips of wheat spice and sweeter citrus. Mint and a touch of coriander. Palate is just a mite too watered down. Tangy. Interesting but not quite all there.

A dark and dry bitter beer with some herbal touches. Drunk it in 2002 at OBER Chrismas beer festiva from bottle. A smell of roasted malts

Many flavors of sharp fruit and high malts. Slightly spicy with a stead stream of carbonation. A Belgian extreme of a witbeer

The aroma is sweet, yeasty, grains, and complex in a fruity-spicy kind of way. The is cloudy amber with a nice head. The flavor is like the aroma with what seems like ginger and allspice. The palate is smooth but a tad on the thin side. Overall it is nice but not great.

Pours a deep orange color with a neverending stream of upward bubbles and a big, rocky white head. Aroma is sour, tart, musty, spicy, yeasty, fruity and piney. Taste is very tart, crisp, smooth, light-bodied and funky. Another quality brew from Fantome.

The green 750 ml. Bomber design, and the capped and corked seal were typical Fantôme. When poured into a tulip glass, the beer looked hazy orange, and the head atop it was tall and proud. The smell was floral and laid back, and was a little bit of a step backwards compared to other products of this brewery. The taste was very dry and showcased a tangy earthy taste, which was possibly resulting from the use of aged hops and some unusual spices. There taste profile was quite unique with such wildly varying flavors like while grape juice, mint, lavender, and sea salt. Very refreshing and easy to drink despite the lack of sweetness, this was definitely not a winter beer. Worked its charm on me, but was not as full bodied as I was expecting. I can’t believe that this beer is 8% ABV. There was absolutely no hint of any alcohol in the taste. A bit more bland than other Fantôme beers, but still a good one off release.