Fantôme Printemps

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

Hazy gold. Bubbly, firm white head. Nose chock full of yeast, a bit of barnyard funk. Lovely flavor, mildly sweet mixed with a big yeast character, then nice hints of spice. Bit of fruitiness is there, also just a whiff of mustiness and funk. Mildly tart with apple. Really nice stuff.

Translucent and magnifying brass in color with an icy, bubbly sheet for the head and beady, cascading lace. Confounded aroma runs amuck with honeyed pinot grapes, greasy lemons, clean linen, subtled cackled white pepper and coriander, mandarins and mums. Flavor is blooming with herbaceous sentiments. Ragweed, pollen and pils malt cut through. Ginger and thyme. Quite the hoppy little number as well. Semi-sugar starved papaya flavors meld with rancid and sharp grapefruit rinds. Soured apricots, but never cresting. Lacks a certain fullness. Big, clean and bitter scrape takes a partial layer off the palate. Mildly effervescent, lacking sweetness, and even more hidden by the bitterness input. Slight trace of alcohol in the finish and prickly pincers tick at the tongue’s tip. Uninspiring.

Hazy & bright amber pour. Thin, short lived off white head. Aroma is grass, yeast, light spice, and barnyard. Light and fruity up front. Complex finish Yeast, spice, funk, and woody notes. Light acidity

This hazy golden ale poured with a thin off-white head and a pleasant, but musty, fruit aroma. Its flavor is fruity and quite a bit more sour than most saisons I have tried. Its refreshing character is much appreciated, since it is 100 degrees F here today and of course my air conditioner just broke down. This brew is also very tasty with some interesting spice.

Hazy pale amber topped by the usual large Fantome head, white and frothy. Beautiful saison aroma, peaches and yeast. The flavor is also nice, the hops are much more prevelant than expected, dry fruity-spicy flavors mix well. Body is medium. The finish is dry with a touch of astringency. Maybe not the most complex offering from Fantome, but certainly an excellent beer! Man I love this brewery.

Pours a hazy golden orange with a thin crackly white head. Very nice with some sunlight hitting it. The nose shows some orange peel, nice yeasty character, earthy, nice barnyard funk, some spice coming through, mild sweetness, cardammom/coriander? The flavor is very nice, especially with this weather. Nice and crisp, light, easy to drink. Lots of character, orange rind, spice, yeasty funk, estery, some sweetness. Nice spicy palate with a nice carbonation.

Bottle sampled. poursorange/amber with a large off-white head. Aroma of spices, fruit, citrus, and yeast. The flavor is sweet, fruit, spices, citrus, and some detectable hops in the finish. Good brew.

Liveliest of all Fantomes, this one is always cherrylike to me, something like a black cherry wine product. Of course, that taste is always mingling with the strange spices and mustiness that I expect from these dusty hard-to-find bottles. My last experience saw half of the bottle pour over as foam.