Fantôme Printemps

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

Serve in Tulip

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2013 bottle pours hazy gold with a white head that reduces to little ponds of lacing. Nose full of grass and light skunk. Taste is balanced, lots of grass. Body this medium, finishes crisp.

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VEry harsh almost mint dustiness, dry, intensely herbal bitter, hay, spices, earth.

a right bastard!! .. . quite a bitter beer, no balance .. . solid foam .. . mostly aspirin, outside nuts,hay, and Eeyore’s ass .. . in the world of hit and miss fantome, this was a miss .. . . You try that around here, young man, and we’ll slit your face.

Spring 2013 release. Mild yeasty, funky, ashy aromas. Palate was a complete surprise. Flavors of smoked herbs, with funky brett and a serious mint overtone, which kinda reminds me of a menthol cigarette or nicorette gum. A strange brew to say the least.. The contrast of color to flavors is intriguing.. Pale golden color, with smokey, green flavors. A confounding beer. Can't say there is anything else like this... --- tasted while on a long journey to understand the world around me...

Bottle, 04/24/2013. Probably 2013 edition, best before 02/2015. Pours hazy golden orange with three-finger white head, fades to a fizzy surface, light sticky lacing around the glass. Aroma has strong herbal component- think fresh spring herb garden (rosemary, etc)- dusty yeast, light fruity notes of peach, fresh apple, mild lemon, and flowers. Taste is similar- big leafy, herbal and flowery component, fresh mint, herbal bitterness, yeast with lightly fruity pale malts, dry finish. Interesting, but kind of strange to be honest.

Nice golden color with white head, not persistent. Peel lime, herbal, grapefruit and spicy aroma, also acetic and cork. Easy body with absinthe flavour, also yeast; light bitter for spicy added.

75 cl. bottle @ home. Purchaed @ Willems. First time I see this one, snatched up one – this has been on my wish list since my excitement for this brewery diminished a bit. The green bottle with the pretty bright green label and the mischievous ghost looks absolutely adorable. I am fairly certain that this is the 2013 Vintage and quite fresh. BBF 02/2015. A new batch / a new recipe but I am certain that is the case for all of Dany’s beers. Hands tremble in excitement as I open the bottle, how is this going to be? More important is this going to be drinkable? Pours a hazy, milky golden surprisingly pale, citrus, light orange, creamy white head which is very brief, almost instantly gone. Smell is very weird and hard to describe but that is to be expected I suppose – this has no infection whatsoever which is less expected, maybe this is too young still to develop an infection? Very sweet, lemon, parsley, rosemary, fresh wild spring herbs (probably actually in here), sweet yeast, clean, aloe vera, reminds me of Mikkeller Pontus, fresh mint & lots of Frisk,… Taste is lightly earthy mould with a touch of moss, Frisk, lemon, fresh spring herbal garden, a chunk of it, not all eatable, mint, parsley, basil, lots of high-class beauty creams, thick yeast, oddly bitter, zesty, hint lemonade,… it is an uniform taste of sorts but just very hard to explain,… Light, yeasty, high carb. Sort of too much to take in but this is why I drink Fantôme. This really tastes like spring, Dany is certain to have put a whole chunk of spring herbs, grasses, spices etc. into this bottle. It is also a bit like drinking a beauty cream or Frisk beer etc. A different person’s opinion: “This is horrible, oh my god, get me something to wash this taste out of my mouth.” :) Thick layer of yeast ooze @ the bottom of the bottle. The ghost has awakened with spring.

Bottle - Pours hazy amber with a foamy white head. Nose is yeasty with spiciness and nice pale malt. Very dry and a bit skunky. Taste is fruity and a bit citrusy--rind and all. Bitter grass and citrus, with yeasty dry pale malt. Well-carbonated with a medium body.

750 thanks to Dallas. Pours a golden blonde color with a large white head. A sweet yeasty nose, some apples and Pilsner malt. The flavor is a bit odd, somewhat bland with spices, yeast, light dusty funk, lemons, maybe some butter. Decent, not great. A bit of aged honey and lemon.