3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle poured a honey blossom with orange hues, medium soapy white head, and notable lacing. Aroma includes notes of hay, apricot, honey, floral, and slight yeast funk. Taste begins with hints of apple, citrus, pepper, floral notes followed by a wave of Brett and a nice blend of tang/sour flavors. Enjoyable dry, crisp finish with flavors lingering.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
.75 bottle. Orange hazy. Bready malts, some yeast in nose. Brett horse-funk, murky hay. Some dried brown hops. Citrus and ginger. Very old/oxidated character, almost lagerish in the malts. Body is a good med, slight sourness, lots of funk. Gets better the more you drink. The bready malts was off-putting at first, but feels quite nice now. Not as fresh as most saisons, more caramelly, old funky.
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3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a murky golden orange color with a white head. Aroma is of brett like funk, pilsner malt notes, leather like notes, cork, perfume, floral notes, citrus, herbal and grassy notes, bright fruit esters and tons of barnyard. The flavor follows the nose with the brett like funk, leather, lots of barnyard with lots of hay, pilsner malt, perfume, cork, bright fruit estersm floal notes, citrus and lots herbal and grassy notes. The body is medium with a dry mouth feel. Overall another interesting and unique Fantome beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
take a bow, nick powell! .. . deep gold, hazed .. . great head, pillowy .. lacing is alright .. . flowers, hay, and light funked yeast .. . pretty tasty beer
.. . . Dude! ... Son of a bitch! ... See you in another life, brother.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at Fermentoren.
Taste of oranges, spices. Nice dry and balanced brew.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Long lost notebook rating #3
Pours a hazy blonde color with a huge tight white head that leaves a lot of nice lacing on the glass.
The aroma is lemony & funky with a nice earthy & floral character. some really wonderful herbal notes to this bouquet too, don’t know if that’s hops or dandelions or some sort of combination of the two, but it’s really appetizing.
The flavor is funky & dry, very spicy, & lightly sour. The beer has a nice herbal character all around with some limestoney mineral character. The beer is earthy and peppery and nicely bitter all around.
The flavor is spritzy and sharp but not intrusive or unpleasant. In fact this on a warm summers evening is about as refreshing and easy to drink as it gets.
I know Fantôme can vary from bottle to bottle & batch to batch, but this one here, was spot on. I shared this with a number of other beer lovers, and not ones who are usually into Sours or Belgians; everyone had to admit that it was just an amazing beer.
2.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Hazy dark orange. No head. Very odd crazy floaters.
Light funky citrus scent.
Bright and floral. Slight tart and honey tangerine.
Medium body. Insanely light carbonation. The start of the mouthfeel is like thick heavy cough syrup and thick molasses. So weird?
Finish is muted flat orange soda.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle. Pours dark yellow with a creamy white head. Dryness, chewing gum, pilsnermalt lightness, strawberries, berry seeds, small touch of citrusy sourness and funky enough. Complex and highly drinkable!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at home with Ryan. Pour is hazy orange with a big, fluffy white head and great lacing. Band-aid, honey, floral hops, light wood, light smoke, tea, funk, and biscuit in the aroma. Taste is tangy, lightly smoky, grass, earthy, flowers, rubber, dust, band-aid, and fruit. Medium mouthfeel with high carbonation. Well-crafted saison, but I don’t know how much I like the way smoke is integrated into this beer. Nonetheless, I can appreciate the effort. Tasty stuff.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
pours hazy amber with a beige head. Aroma has lavender, pretty floral, brett, sweeter sugary thing going on, cow stable and plants. Taste of stable, cow and pigs. also some brett, hops, white wineish bitter end. Pretty nice but very rural and farmhouseish ..
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