Fantôme Strange Ghost

Brewed by Brasserie Fantôme
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Soy-Erezée, Belgium

A had to travel all the way to Montreal to sample this. It is a beutiful amber beer with a nice orange head. The aroma is sweet and very spicy combined with notes of lemon and rosemary. The flavor is also sweet and very spicy - I pick up rosemary and parseley, leading to a very dry end.

(Bottle 75 cl) Beautiful orangey red with an almost warm glow. Slightly sourish with a decent hopping. But first and foremost this is spicy, spicy, spicy - and I’m talking spices you usually find in cooking: basil, thyme and sage. Weird - as expected. And a strange ghost indeed... 090601

75 cL bottle, thanks to Hildigöltur. Pours hazy orange with a white head. Heavy ginger aroma. Flavour is undrinkable. Ginger all over. Presumeably wellcrafted - but me and ginger flavoured beer is a no-match.

Bottle. Hazy orange brown coloured with an off white head. Aroma of caramel, fruits, vanilla and ginger. Flavour of ginger, fruits and vanilla. The ginger is very dominating.

Date: 09/18/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

dark muddy red, dine beige head, streaks of drippy lace, sweet spicy cinamon and fruity raison aroma, creamy body, rich fruity malt flavor, touch of sweetness brings out the fruit, cinamon character goes well with the brown sugar sweetness, spicyness adds a light bitter edge, slight tart edge,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Hazy amber colour. Minty aroma with dusty yeast, camphor or menthol-like phenols...strange indeed. The flavour is hugely spicy, evocative of things like mint, anise, cinnamon and oregano, with a little bit of malt background. There is also some unpleasant ashy astringency (to recreate, try eating a spoonful of dried thyme). Quite sweet as well, in a manner reminiscent of candyish, herbal sodas like Vimto (Saudi version) or Antarctica Guarana. Certainly this beer provides very eclectic references. And as is true with all Fantomes it grows on you over the course of a 750 (drinking a Fantome in any serving size less than 750 should be criminalized) but it still pales in comparison with most of Dany’s other efforts. It is whacked out, but the elements don’t come together in any compelling way the way that they do in most of his brews. You aren’t left breathless and begging for more at the end of this, which for a Fantome beer may as well be a damning indictment.

(750ml bottle) Opaque, dull amber body with medium beige head. Aroma medium sweet, tarragon, lemon peel, ginger, other herbs. Taste is medium sweet, tarragon, white pepper, ginger, other herbs, light lime. Medium body with a dry finish. Not bad by any stretch, but not sure that I need to ever drink a tarragon beer again.

Bottle. A light hazy amber beer with a big tan head. The aroma is spicy, "ginger/pepper/lemon" the taste is sweet malty and very spicy "ginger/pepper/lemon". Medium body with a spicy finish.