Fantôme Santé-16!

Brewed by Brasserie Fantôme
Style: Belgian Ale
Soy-Erezée, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Poured from a 750ml bottle. A big citrusy nose. A big citrusy character, herbal, dusty brettanomyces, soft pilsner malts, citrusy rind. Amazing.

750 big thanks to Dallas! Pours a cloudy orange color with a large white head. A sweet citrus nose. A flavor that is dry, tart, rich citrus flavors, bready, Brett, a bit of dry tangerine in the finish. Awesome brew.

750ml bottle shared by Dallas, thanks
Appearance: Clear golden with a big white heads and lots of lacing
Aroma: Citrus, juicey and dusty
Taste: Tart, citrus, dusty and lemon peel
Nice and refreshing

Bottle. Good hoppy nose: citrus, grass, minerals. Dusty and dry. Bright amber-orange color with a tall, foamy head. Sweet burst of orange in the flavor, then minerals and bitter hops. Dry and dusty, light blanket, with a dry bitter finish. The early sweet fruitiness is a bit strange, but a very fun, tasty beer.

A soft pour into my Bruery tulip produces a four-finger thick, pale tan tinged head that rises more than a finger above the rim of my glass. The beer is a light amber color that shows a brilliantly clear, pale amber tinged, bright, yellow gold hue when held up to the light. The aroma smells of fruity cotton candy, ripe melon notes, soft black pepper, lots of tropical fruit, ripe kumquat zest, a fair amount of musty, slightly dusty yeast character, hints of cedar, and spruce tips. Dusty pale malt notes lean more towards defined, cracker like grain, and touches of straw as the beer warms up.

Drier than the sweet aroma would suggest, this has lots of woody, and tropical fruit laden hoppiness to it; the lingering finish has a slightly astringent, hoppy, bitter bite to it. Flavors of tangelo zest, lychee, kumquat and then notes of woody pine, touches of menthol, and orange infused cedar are all contributed by the hops. Soft, supporting malt notes of pale-grain crackers, and a rounded bread like middle mixes with a touch of cotton candy, and a soft sweetness that goes a long way towards accentuating the fruit character from the hops. Touches of phenolic yeast character accentuates the biting hop bitterness in the finish, provides a peppery note here, and other fermentation notes provide some alcohol warmth, clove notes that grow as the beer warms up, and some other, slightly tongue numbing phenolics.

All of these seemed to have been nicely hopped when young, and this is definitely the freshest of the Santé beers that I have had. Really nice, I am really digging this hoppy focus from Fantôme, I hope the series continues in a similar vein.

Bottle @ Really Late Ulfborg Summer Tasting, 2012. Pours hazy golden with a frothy white head. Funk, pepper, fruit, hops. Fruit salad. Bitter finish. Full bodied. It works!

Bottle 750ml.

Unclear medium yellow orange colour with a large to huge, frothy to creamy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, moderate hoppy, citrus, canned peach, moderate yeasty, leather, funky. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, tart, citrus, yeast, fruity, peppery, peach. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120914]

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with excellent duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are yeast, grass, straw, malt and hops. Nice bitter finish.

Bottle, 04/23/2013. Pours hazy amber orange, huge rocky head sticks around for ages, thick sticky lacing left behind, active bubble wells from below. Aroma is pale cereal malts, cloud of brett and earthy yeast, citrus fruit, mild orange peel bitterness, pepper, grassy herbs. Taste is citrus, brown sugar, medium bitterness, bit of pepper, light toasted bread, dry finish. Medium palate, bright carbonation. Not terribly funky or sour, but nuanced and nice.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Hazy golden with a big and lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, sugar and moderate hoppy - peach. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 140912