Fantôme Hiver (Winter)

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

A dark and dry bitter beer with some herbal touches. Drunk it in 2002 at OBER Chrismas beer festiva from bottle. A smell of roasted malts

Many flavors of sharp fruit and high malts. Slightly spicy with a stead stream of carbonation. A Belgian extreme of a witbeer

The aroma is sweet, yeasty, grains, and complex in a fruity-spicy kind of way. The is cloudy amber with a nice head. The flavor is like the aroma with what seems like ginger and allspice. The palate is smooth but a tad on the thin side. Overall it is nice but not great.

Pours a deep orange color with a neverending stream of upward bubbles and a big, rocky white head. Aroma is sour, tart, musty, spicy, yeasty, fruity and piney. Taste is very tart, crisp, smooth, light-bodied and funky. Another quality brew from Fantome.

The green 750 ml. Bomber design, and the capped and corked seal were typical Fantôme. When poured into a tulip glass, the beer looked hazy orange, and the head atop it was tall and proud. The smell was floral and laid back, and was a little bit of a step backwards compared to other products of this brewery. The taste was very dry and showcased a tangy earthy taste, which was possibly resulting from the use of aged hops and some unusual spices. There taste profile was quite unique with such wildly varying flavors like while grape juice, mint, lavender, and sea salt. Very refreshing and easy to drink despite the lack of sweetness, this was definitely not a winter beer. Worked its charm on me, but was not as full bodied as I was expecting. I can’t believe that this beer is 8% ABV. There was absolutely no hint of any alcohol in the taste. A bit more bland than other Fantôme beers, but still a good one off release.

dirty orange color, like the rust from my trusty first car. theres a lot of cheesy funk to this one and a hint of fish. some woody flavor, (honestly doesn’t taste like oak to me it tastes like birch or something...) and then theres some corriander, some anise, and some apple and white grapes. a nice alcohol warmth to it that, in my opinion, is why it was saved for winter.

Vintage bottle ’98 sampled at Delilah’s Vinatage Beer Fest 07. I went back for several of these, this was mine and many others favorite of the fest. Pours a brown cloudy color. Sour funky aroma, bretty, musty, and inviting. Fruity sour flavors, oak grapes, apple, earthy hops, and alcohol warmth that’s glowing inside me. Drying finish, excellent beer.

Poured a very very cloudy orange/brown color with okay head and lacing. Aroma was very peppery and lots of other spices. Flavor was much them same, very different then i was expecting from this style was funky but pepper funky.