Fantôme Saison

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

Bottle. 750 ml. Orange/ golden colour with a white head. Aroma is yeast, sour, fruit, apple. Flavour is yeast, sour, fruit, apple, citrus, apple, spices. Nice beer.

750ml bottle, unknown date, pours clear straw color with fluffy white head. nose is loaded with hay, vinegar, lemon, and some sweetness in a soft caramel note. flavor notes are of spicy coriander balanced with a mild sweet honey and caramel notes, yeasty and crisp, and funk. alcohol is very well hidden. mouthfeel is very silky and long. this is really fun to drink, very easy, refreshing, and delicious. i still think i prefer my saisons crisp and dry over one’s like this that are mildly sweet, but still a great saison.

Bottled, 0.75ltr corked. Hazy, unclear, yellowgolden beer with a nice, dense, huge white head. The aroma is a bit sour, with lemon, cloves and weak notes of caramel. The sourness and citrus is found in the flavor as well, and is followed by wheat-notes, spices, yeast and coriander. Some nice medicine-notes as well. It has a medium body, the right fullness-level for this beer, and the finish has both medicine and citrusy bitterness. A complex beer that I would like to taste again. (070119)

750mL bottle. Translucent yellow-gold with a large rocky white head. Dusty dried flowers/herbs in the aroma with citrusy and spicy esters. Mild sweetness complements an emerging soft tartness. Floral and fruity yeast flavors, and a perfumey spice component. Drying finish with a lingering mustiness and sweet/tart interplay. Mouthfeel is a light medium, rather dry.

750 ml bottle. Pale and cloudy body with a nice, big, dense head. Aroma is acidulous in a “wild yeast” way. Flavor is surprisingly fresh, complex, spicy and has also a kind of balanced sweetness even if the sourish is dominating. I just love this.

750 ml bottle corked and capped - Pours amber and cloudy with a short white head that faded quick. Aromas of apple, spice and yeast. Flavor is spice, yeast, some floral notes, a touch of vanilla, and a definite sour quality.. almost lambic like but not quite.. Some lemon, apple, and other fruits seem to add the sourness. Palate is spritzy for a beer that showed very little head and not much pop on the cork. Interesting

bright gold in color with huge head. bubbly & perfumy. not as spicy as other saisons I’ve encountered. Easy drinking. decent

Pours an apple juice color of amber gold. Tons of sparkly carbonation rushing to form an acid-white head of better than two inches. Then poof! The carbonation is gone. Just like that. The bubbles continue to rise, vigorously at first, and then tapering off to almost nothing. Looking at the beer after it is in the glass for a couple minutes, you would think that it was flat. But its not. It is just throwing you the first of several curveballs. Very thin traces of lace hang around for the duration. Smell: Tangy sweet citrus. Then citrus spicy sweet. Then sweet-tart, like the candy of the same name. Then musty vinegary flowery. Every time I smell it, it smells just a little bit different. Now its apple juice and yeast... Now the flavor. More variations. I taste every combination that I mention above in the aroma department, but all with an underlying tartness that I find incredible (a tartness that the wife can’t stand, by the way). I swear I can sense a different flavor on every region of my tongue. And a sweetness on the roof and sides of my mouth where there aren’t even any tastebuds (right?). Now there’s somthing like peach pit, but sweetened. Peach pit? This beer is playing tricks with me. A complex, confusing, competitive, confounding, yet comforting confluence of flavor. A conundrum. Man I love this stuff!