Fantôme Saison

750mL Bottle, purchased at Wakefield Liqours - Wakefield, RI.This beer pops with a delicious swamp of apple-filled corkiness. Rich cellar character gives way to a bit of Brett-like funk and a kiss of shimmering hops. Comes in a very effervescent pale gold, with a billowing fine white head. Flavor reveals richer and more satisfying malt complexity. Bright, snappy and spicy yeasts compliment the cellar-like nose. Oh so fresh and drinkable. Crispy. Very dry, but holding satisfying character. As a standard measurement of the style, it exceeds my expectations and is absolutely stunning. I’ll drink anything Fantome brews. Long live the white ghost!

Golden pour, tons of carbonation, tons of fluffy white head...great amount of yeast, funk, and citrus...perfect for a hot summer day

Bouteille verte de 750 ml. Arômes d’agrumes et de levure fruitée. On remarque déjà des effluves acides. Robe orangée et trouble, légère mousse et effervescence assez faible. En bouche, la bière est relativement ronde et présente une belle touche maltée très légèrement sucrée. On remarque également une touche de levure fruitée et campagnarde. Puis une longue finale lactique et citrique s’installe et est accompagnée d’une légère touche de houblon. Très rafraîchissant et facile à boire, l’alcool ne transparaît pas du tout. Un classique !

Another in a long line of funky delicious beers. Earthy, funky, slightly tart. Another winner!!

Reviewed 8/21/2009 (Bottle BB ??/??, cork 086/477044): Pours a very cloudy dark yellow, almost orange but not quite, color body. With a big creamy white head, lasting. Muted, musty aroma, fruity and sweet spicy. Maybe some plasticy. Soft taste, very muted, very light tasting. Some light fruitniness. Very light taste, drying. Almost watery. Thirst quenching, would be good on a hot day. Almost a plasticy taste. Just okay, not the greatest, not much flavor to speak of.

Bottle. Hazy orange pour with a thin off-white head. Malty and fruity aroma with a bit of tartness. Malty and yeasty flavor up front with some tart orange, a bit of apple and some hops in the finish.

750ml bottle (Pikkulintu, Helsinki) - shared by Mirjukka and Janne - thanks!
Chalky sweet aroma - US smarties or EU refreshers. Orange, small head. Massively crisp citrus taste. Finish is rubbery. Aroma develops toffee as it warms, or even fudge, vanilla fudge at that. Carbonation was crisp. Taste definitely combines both crisp citrussy elements and sweet toffeeness - very nice. There are even some honey retronasals a few times. Slightly acidic, and very nice. And I need to say fudge at lease once more.

750, corked and baled. Cracked October 09, with every reason to believe it’s the absolute most recent recipe available at this moment. Pours a cloudy toffeeish medium amber with a dense but ultra-thin whitish head.
Tons of sudsy fizz erupts on the pour, and the carbonation if no figment of the imagination, but the head and the lace are really pretty minimal. Delicious orange, lemon, and honey nose.
This bottle is a great example of the Fantome/Dupont schools of saison theory. This beer shows a lot of sun-drenched fruit, where the Dupont VPs hang back and show you dry grass and spices. I could spend a great spring cracking bottle after bottle trying to decide which one I like better, but, even with my sweet tooth, I have to lean to the Duponts I think. The body on this one comes on very tangy and fizzy, the orange and lemon notes combine to a nice blend of, or mid point between, acidic fruit juices and tongue-loving pie filling. The fizz is intense, for sure. It’s fruity through the mid-palate and into the finish.
You can so picture two different french farmhouses with buckets in the basement, probably covered by hunks of wood, making beers as different as this one and the Dupont VPs. It’s fun trying them both.