Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at De Koffer, Groningen. Aroma is strong floral, dandelions, spicy peppery yeast, funky notes, ripe fruits, orange, hoppy notes. Flavour is over moderate sweet with a nicely moderate hoppy bitter finish. Body is medium. Nicely floral and yeasty fruity, another very fine Fantôme.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle pour at the RB DC sendoff meetup. Poured slightly hazy yellow-orange color with a small white head. Aroma was huge honey notes, light sweetness, but age on this (it's from 2012). Pretty tasty. Kind of reminds me of a mead.

Big honey, flowers. Light dust.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap in proper glassware at Afterthought. Quite an odd beer. Earthy and bitter. Funky and odd and garage/barnyard. Off tones, inexpert/inadequate brewing shines more than it did 25 years ago.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

75cl bottle (7,5%) from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: medium, tan, average retention. C: deep amber, hazy. A: peach, banana, herbal, bit grassy, spicy. T: hay, herbal, peach, spicy, long lasting bitterness from hops and dandelion, dry on the palate, medium carbonation, another like or hate beer from Fantôme, enjoyed for sure.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle bought at the brewery. Pours reddish with off-white head. Aroma is herbal and spicy, and flavor follows suit with a bit of funk on the back half of the palate.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Pours dark amber to light reddish with a bit of haziness, hazier on second pour. Medium sized head (actually not so big for a saison), slightly off-white; good enough persistence and nice lacing. Bright and wonderfully complex aroma shows a quite strong sweet base of caramel plus a touch of honey and something that might be described as floral sweetness (i guess it's the dandelions, which are not in my taste palette, what i get smells more or less like chamomille), fruitiness (blood orange especially), delicate but quite vivid spiciness, some earthy and herbal/grassy hints. Taste notes follow the aroma closely. The beer is very sweet but nicely balanced by alcohol attenuation, by a dry enough finish and by the slightest bit of sourness. It's a pleasantly rustic taste, but not as bright/defined as the smell suggested. Medium bodied, surprisingly easygoing for the abv, with slightly above medium carbonation (which means a bit less carbonated than style average). Super nice, interesting and wonderfully drinkable rustic saison. A bit more brightness/definition in taste would have made this a masterpiece.