Fantôme Saison

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

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate hoppy and slightly sour aroma. Very acetic flavor. Average moderate sour finish. Oily palate. Disapointing and not my kind of saison. Lacks spices.

Bottle. Clear yellow color with okay head. Nice aroma. Very sour lemon fruity saison. Hides the alcohol nicely.

Murky light orange amber in color. Lots of carbonation present. Thin white head disappears very quickly. Sour apple smell. Alcohol present in the smell. Thick mouthfeel with a lot of carbonation. Sour apple taste. Not my cup of tea (or beer so to speak).

Very refreshing and extremely complex saison. If beers like this cost 1/2 the price, then, well, drink a lot. The problem with $15 beers is that you want them to be a bit less easily drunk...

An unclear orange beer with a big nice looking head that slowly dissipates to a small layer of foam. The aroma is ctrusy, slight funkiness, & slight sourness, & barnyard. The taste is very light, rustic, citric, very smooth for 8%ABV. This is a thirst quencher & I can see why this style was meant to be drank by the farm workers in the summer. I just wish it was more available, & not so expensive. Very nice though.

750 ml bottle. Pours a well carbonated hazy banana pudding, golden and very hazy, straw, with a small whitish bubbly head, well carbonated, laces ok. Aromas are very fruity, banana and citrus fruits, a bit tart, with some straw, apple, and some dusty barnyard and funk. A nice citric acid bite, I really like it. Initial is a nice light tartness upfront, fairly light on the palate but full, citric lemon zest, a touch of banana, cool cereal malts, smooth and creamy on the palate, I really don’t get much yeast or spice, instead this goes down very easy, very fruity but not sweet, acid helps balance, but it isn’t really sour either, maybe a bit on the back, this beer is very drinkable. Gets a bit more tart further in, I really liked this for being (in my eyes) different! Cheers.

Bottle, $12.99 at Total Wine & More. Pours dirty gold with a fluffy, noisy white head. Looks earthy and venerable in glass. Aroma is horseblanket, funk upfront, touches of lemon zest on the back end. Flavor is subtle, and builds in body and complexity throughout the palate. Earthy, brett notes begin the parade of flavors, followed – no, layered – by rosemary, puckering lemon, grapefruit pith, and a touch of cotton. Finishes tart and funky, probably the most stand-out part of this beer. The after-flavors are phenomenal. Mouthfeel is dreamy smooth, lightly effervescent, and lush. A champagne of a beer, definitely one of the standards for the Saison style.

Orange color with a small off-white head. Nice lacings. The smell is slightly edgy, yet smooth and round. Lots of fruit esters all around and strange but pleasant candy aromas. Hints of spices. The taste is very good. Wonderful fresh fruity flavors. The taste is mostly sweet but has a subtle tartness to it. Fruits of the forest, candy and hints of spices. The finish is mildly bitter and grassy. Medium body, medium carbonation, slightly dry in the finish. A really unique beer, I dare to say. What a strange but lovely character. An oddball beer in an otherwise oddball style. NOTE: I’ve had the opportunity to try a bottle of this that was cellared for about four years. It had not hold up well. It had lost quite a lot of the sweet fruity candy-like character and developed a more distinctly spicy and semi-funky character. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)