*Old rating, best before Jan 13. Spannendes grünes Bier. Riecht mehrt nach Waldmeister als nach grünem Tee. Frisch-säuerlich, spannend-säuerliche Pferdedecke, frisch-säuerlicher Waldmeister. Nett.

Bottle at home. Interesting colour, lime green. Lots of green tea, fruity, light, sugary sweet.

Fantôme has made some pretty deviant saison variations so far, but this tops everything. The head looks like bubble bath foam, very lightly green, thick, sticky and creamy; the beer itself has a purely mint green colour, clear at first but hazy and soupy after adding the deposit. Perfumed nose of green tea, basil, woodruff, soap, grass, mint, lime zest, apple, honey and something weirdly synthetical I can’t quite put my finger on (air freshener, perhaps). Lime fresh onset, sourish, very saison-like with pale malts and strong ethereal spicy effects (mint, Thai basil again, tea); finish dryingly sourish, mild bitter with some warming alcohol. Points for originality. The few really green beers in existence may look off-putting, but if they have this effect on you, try them with your eyes closed, this one isn’t as alienating as it looks.

Bottle from Stirchley Wines, Birmingham. Three months out of date. (Just coming good, then?). Washing up liquid green. Washing up liquid green, frothy head. Aroma is grain sweet. Wet yeast. Quite floral. Light, spicy herb. Taste is ripe orange sweet. Then dry, lightly tart, lightly bitter. Palate brings everything together nicely. Finish is a little sweet, maybe, but very enjoyable, nonetheless. If this wasn’t green, it’d get much better ratings!

8/11 0.5 l bottle courtesy of ogivlado, great thanks for sharing this one! It poured hazy shiny green body with medium sized greenish head atop. Fine sweet dried fruit aroma, creamy and chalky. Flavor was lightly bitter, grassy, somewhat fruity like peach and vanilla with tobacco felt more towards the aftertaste. Green tea is not really felt other than that, which is a stretch. Some light yeast noted as well. Medium bodied with long finish that mostly follows the flavor with more tobacco and earthy notes. A fine, but really weird ale, not so strong or full for 8% and I guess not up to everybody’s liking.

75cl bottle @ the 2nd Shrewsbury Bottle Share FEB 14, courtesy of Mr Black Haddock down there. What a find. This is Belgian but I’ve never seen a bottle on any of my many trips to that country, instead I think most of their stock is sent by carrier pigeon to the US. Anyway.. this pours a fantastic absinthe green and perhaps bears too much of a thin appearance to be a beer. I got elements of saison yeast, artificial flavouring but generally I didn’t get much in the way of defined flavours, with a watery influence and bizarre tangy aftertaste. A strange one.

BBD Feb 2014, 0.75 litres: uncapped and cork removed on 24th Feb 2014 at the second ever Shrewsbury bottle share (four of us on this occasion). This was one of my gifts to the group. It’s flourescent green and my senses wouldn’t allow it to smell or taste of beer, my eye’s deciding it was a green tea (which I believe it has infused somewhere during the brewing process) and Lincoln Pea Soup mixture with extra food colouring added. Different and a real talking point: where does the 8% ABV go for instance and why does it look like thin Pea Soup? I enjoyed it but can’t give you a proper review or tasting notes because it’s just ’strange’ and beyond my realms of reasoning and writing. My scores don’t make sense either!

Bottled 750ml. -Intensive green coloured, small greenish/white head, not so pleasant buttery yeasty nose. Moderate malty, buttery, yoghurty and pretty strong herbal (nettle shampoo or tea) notes. Also some spices and fruits. Interesting yes, pleasant not so and like Marko said once is quite enough. And for the end I really don’t understand those people who rated this higher than 3.5.

Man, I completely didn’t expect that Ogi would get this for us, enormous thanks! Shared with him and heavy. Humm... ours was a misty green body (another surprise, as I didn’t want to spoil my surprise by reading about it) with a misty white head. Full creamy aroma, heavily yoghurty, plum compote, light raisins. The taste continues along those line - compote from some fruit I can’t quite nail, could be plums, dunno, yoghurty too, ending somehow fresh in some citrus fruit, while still being sweet and heavy. Actually, to quote my notes, "heavy as f**k... just no". Definitely unique - completely surprised me. But once is quite enough I guess.