Fantôme Saison

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

Serve in Tulip

Poured from the bottle and revealed was a plentiful white head. Light gold in color. Smells of spice and funky yeast.Very smooth and creamy in your mouth. Nice sweetness with an underlay of slight sourness. Some spicy saison flavors. Very good interesting finish. Good unique brew.

Bottle. 75cl. [As Fantôme]. Unclear medium yellow - orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, citrus, apple, pineapple, tropickal fruits, sour - sweet fruity. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, light to moderate acidic and bitter, sour with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (280208)

750 ml bottle, very little carbonation behind the cork, pours with a light head, minimal lacing. Smells predominantly of strawberries, followed by ripe pineapple and apricot. Taste is tangy, not quite sour, fruity,almost like a reisling wine. No alcohol vapors evident. Drinkable and nice.

Bottle poured into my Duval tulip produced a wonderful hazy apricot colored body topped off with a short lived white bubbly head Aromas of funk, fruit (oranges strawberries and bananas) and spice fill your nose. Wow this is a fun beer Flavor on this one is a bit sour which is to be expected but you get apple oranges and a ton of fruit grant you the flavors are not for everyone but I like it Mouthfeel is clean and light the carbonation is all but nonexistent Very drinkable made me wish for summer will grab another one for sure

from Holiday Wine Cellar. Cloudy golden brown with white head. Malty straw and fruit aroma. Sweet pineapple juice taste with some champagne character, citrus and mild spice taste.

Pours a pale cloudy yellow with a surprisingly minimal white head. Aroma is sweet honey and hop flowers along with a spicy fruitiness. Taste is smooth yet assertive. Tart fermented honey and pale malt sweetness along with citrus notes and a funky but pleasant sourness. An excellent example of a Belgian farmer’s ale.

UPDATED: NOV 20, 2008 bottle. pours a hazy straw yellow color with a white head that lasts and laces nicely. nutty malt smell, with a light lemon note, and a slight hint of brett, as well as some white grapes, some woodiness, and a bit of spice and earthiness. nutty, bready malt smell, with a fairly dominating orange backdrop, along with some more lemon, white grape, and spice. very lightly bittersweet finish, quite dry. medium body, lots of carbonation. i was surprised that i had never had this before. quite quenching and yummy--it goes down waaay too easily for 8%. edited to add: the more i drink this beer, the more i realize it’s one of my absolute favorites. as far as saisons go, it’s way more fruity than phenolic, much to my liking, and what the brett adds is just perfect. you end up with an amazingly drinkable, quenching, yet potent and complex (i would almost rather say complicated) beer, that you can drink and drink without thinking about it, or you can savor every sip. i usually choose the latter, and this beer has never let me down. fantastic.

[750 ml] Super hazy, turbid orange/yellow. Green apple, fruity esters. Grassy. Flavors are full of floral/fruity esters, apple, and slight clove. Strong musty, funk element; pineapple brett flavors.