Fantôme Hiver (Winter)

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

Serve in Tulip

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Bottle 750ml. @ home.
Clear medium red amber color with a large, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, moderate to heavy yeasty leather - wood, medicine - gauze, horse stable. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, medicine - gauze. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to lively. [20091128]

Looks like a Caffrey’s when it is poured, but the head just disappears - even though it almost blew a hole in my cealing when it opened itself. The aroma is yeasty and spicy. The flavor is of yeast and cinnamon - especially the cinnamon has been put in, in enormous amounts. This is too much for me.

(Bottle 75 cl) Beautiful reddish beer, slightly hazy with a decent head. Typical Fantome spicyness although I cannot pinpoint which spices. Some hints of licorice. Nice. 240501

75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a huge off-white and slowly collapsing head. dry and citric brett aroma. Citric, dry and yeasty flavoured. Mild malty note with a hint of caramel and mild bitterness mixed with a more intense citric brett note. Dry and fruity brett finish.

Bottled (from Cracked Kettle). Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is barnyard, lots of spices and herbs. Flavour is spices, yeast, herbs and some hints of caramel. Quite brutal, but balanced. Semidry palate. With yeast in it gets a bit more bready and solid from the spicyness.

Bottled. Cloudy orange. Light estery fruit aroma with a touch of menthe. Funky and lively, medium dry with light sparkling moutfeel. Lightly resiny finish with some bitterness. Complex.

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, 8%. Citric aroma, slightly rough, might be infected. Muddy brown colour. Tan head, slightly fizzy. The flavour is citric, funky and bretty. Quite malty. With Fantome, I always wonder if it is infected. At least it is drinkable.

If a 6 existed for the appearance, it would be for this one, that I poured in a giant glass of the original Cuvee de l'Ermitage.
Cloudy brown-amber color; rocky, giant, persistent, creamy head.
Very nice malt aroma, pretty barley-wine like, with a very nice freshness at the end, given by the hop and the spices (coriander, almost turning to black pepper); very good Belgian woody example.
The body is pretty much equilibrated, being enough malty, bitter and complemented by some pleasant sourness which makes of it more appropriately a Fall beer than a Winter one; some citrus fruits acidity at the end, introducing a final much similar to a orange peel bitterness.

Name: Hiver (Winter)
Date: 03/04/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, RateBeer SE Gathering, 2005

hazy pink, light, tart, funky, very moldy horse blanket, not for me
-------- /> Name: Hiver (Winter)
Date: 09/08/2005
Score: i+ to iii+
Words: Bottle
Words: Vegas beer store

murky amber, big beige head, spicy funky aroma, hint of sweet ripe fruit, rich malt flavor, lots of funky spicyness, touch of bitterness, lots of complexity, great rich ripe fruit flavor develops as it warms and mixes well with the musky spice character, devolops a wonder creamyness, wonderful

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Score: ***+/4
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