4.4 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Hazy amber. Mild, fizzy, unimpressive head.
Nose is tart and earthy in the extreme. It’s not lambic sour, it’s cut grass and lemon juice tart.
I hate to use the dandelion reference... but you can sense that dandelion stem flavor. It’s also lemony, and simply freaking beautiful with a mild, indiscernible fruity sweetness below it. It’s warming, and becoming more tart, but somehow still mellowing. An earthy dryness replaces the juicy tart beer of earlier. The wild yeasty complexity becomes more present... straw, and grass clippings... I’m loving this. Another cold pour turns the tartness into a lemon juice, with something sweet and spicy and that same dry, earthy finish. How many times can i use the word tartness to describe this beer? Not enough. Yeast pour turns the beer an most unattractive brown, and it mellows developing a rye bread-like component and a grassiness that becomes predominant.
Finish is long, lemony and earthy.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
750ml Bottle. 2004. Spicy, herbal flowering aroma reaches an apex near the total amalgam of all french aromatic culinary prowess. Delicate, bubbly and lively. Inviting and dappled with some more intricate malt work. Pours a somewhat hazed golden-orange, fuming, with a rim in off-white. The flavor is expressive, deep and yet fresh. Lots of carbonation and only a little dust and oxidation for a 4 year old bottle. This aged very well. Nuanced middle body derives enjoyable herbal qualities throught the slightly funky Fantome yeast signature. Minerals, grape sugars, and mature malts lend fantastic complexity to this beer. Delicious in every dimension. The body carries nicely with crisp dryness, classically concealed alcohol and fresh, prickly carbonation. An astonishing version. Absolutely delightful at this age. Thanks Sean!
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Courtesy of boboski, what a way to start a tasting. I have been eagerly anticipating this beer. Pours a cloudy deep golden color. Aroma is drawing me in. Citrusy, herbaceous, hoppy, grassy and floral. It takes me to a field in Flanders. The flavor is a caucaphony of flavors dancing ever so gracefully, hitting every mark as expected. Good Lord man, I need more of this stuff.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle at Lion’s Pride - almost 2 years old according to our bartender. Dark copper pour with thin white head. Aroma is quite grassy, lots of sour wild yeastiness, that classic farmhouse aroma but twice as strong as usual. The grassiness comes out litteraly smelling bitter can’t wait for the taste. The bitterness does come through, along with a lot of that same wild sourness that has just been developping in the cellar very strong taste. Palate is perfect, along the same lines as the fantome saison we had just before it. We did have them in the right order though, because this one was a flavor bomb.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Picked up @Hops City in Atlanta. Out of the magnum, & into a flute. I love this beer! Not sure if its a batch issue, as I know Dany can be a little inconsistent. But unlike a lot of reviewers, I get hit w/ a huge aroma of dandelion from this beer. It pours chalky amber brown like a apple cider. No head to speak of, and the tiny bubbles lining the ring of the surface rejuvenate w/ every drink. The taste is sublime. The dandelion is right there, accompanied w/ musty horse blanket & lemon that comes through from the citrusy hops as well. The ever-essence is there, I can see it, but the carbonation is soft on the tongue. Unique & easily drinkable. I continue to enjoy this beer time & time again...
4.3 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours an amber orange haze with a nice soapy head. Has a fresh hoppy, citrus, grapefruit aroma. Smells more like a tea than a beer. Has a zesty sweet taste with some sour and some bitter that reveals itself as tarty. Has a somewhat dry finish. A very unique taste from a very unique brewery. Fantome’s brews always surprise in a good way.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: JUL 22, 2010 Aroma is sour, a bit of floral honey and lemon.
Appearance: a nearly still kool-aid orange color.
Taste is is slightly sweet, some lemon sourness, a bit of spiciness, and hops.
Mouthfeel is a bit watery due to lack of carbonation, a bit of sour pennies, and some bitter herbal flavor.
Interesting.
Watery, sour, fun.
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Paper label, 2008 or something along those lines.
Aroma is lactic, floral, a bit soapy, lemon, and more floral aromatics. Wow!
Taste is sour flour petals, hoppy pine, a touch of milk, and more lactic sourness, biscuit, and funk.
Simply incredible. Complex, well-balanced and integrated. This is stunning.
Finish is sharp, sour, slightly hoppy, a touch of biscuit....
Damn
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle thanks to Miketd, thanks a ton for hooking me up with this. Poured a hazy, vibrant red-orange color with a moderate beige head that faded to a layer and left some thick spotty lacing. Earthy, grassy aroma with hints of dandelions and some funky barnyard, straw, and some moderate fruitiness (orange, tangerine, light lemon). Smooth, lightly sweet entry with some soft grassy undertones leads into a nice flowery flavor with some tart fruit (orange and lemon) and a dry yeastiness with a bit of funk on the finish. Moderate carbonation, full and smooth on the palate. Very good.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
75cl bottle. Hazy burnt orange, almost like a sunset. This would have easily deserved a five for appearance if the head had been a little more robust. The aroma is tart, tangy, and funky with a great orange-peach fruitiness, and a peppery spiciness. The flavor is dry and lightly tart, with lots of juicy citrus, and a bit of earth funk. The floral aspects blend very well with the overall flavor, but seem to add both earthiness and fruitiness, and maybe a little bitterness in the finish if that’s not all hops. Medium-light bodied with almost medium carbonation, but not as much as I would like for this beer, and it holds it back from being the near perfect beer that it could be. Dandelions? Absolutely, based on this example. Fantastic and seamless bland of flavors and aromas. I can imagine a better-carbonated bottle, well, lets just say I’m going to need to find one of those. Fantome is quickly becoming me new favorite brewer.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
A real treat from JW77. Pours a cloudy orange. Aroma is lemony, funky, earthy, and I swear I smell dandelions. Flavor is delicious! I can taste the damned flowers! Along with wet earth, lemon notes, yeast, and doughy notes. This was awesome!!
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