Blanche
Brasserie Fantôme in Soy, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Witbier Regular|
Score
7.02
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is fairly citrusy with some grapefruit zest and hints of lemon and lime. Light coriander notes. Hints of grain and wheat. Light floral and fruity esters. Pours a somewhat hazy, pale, yellow gold with a very, very large, pillowy, white head that continues to expand before eventually falling into itself many minutes later. Flavor is slightly sweet with some light wheat and grain notes. Moderate citrus notes of grapefruit, lemon, and orange. Light coriander notes with some light, peppery phenolic notes. Light floral and fruit esters with pear and stone fruit. Low bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with very high carbonation (but not a gusher). Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a pretty tasty beer with good aromas, but it is impossible to drink with how carbonated it is and how good the head retention is. Nice citrus notes with light, balanced phenolics. Light floral and fruity esters add some complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2016
at 23:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at the hi wy cum. Tasting, 5/11/2016. Many thanks to Leighton for this one. A hazed yellow straw coloured pour with fine fading head. Aroma is nice big tropical fruits, peach, mango surbert. Lemon, pale wheat. Flavour is composed of tangy lemon, mango, pineapple, wheat, mango. Plalate is tangy. Spritz carbonation, semi crisp finish. I like it a lot. Zesty, grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2016
at 14:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle (aged) thanks to Leighton at Colin’s, It pours hazy golden with a small white head. The aroma is fresh, bready, juicy, grapefruit, nectarine, zesty, straw and light spice. The taste is crisp, tart, juicy, loads of grapefruit, some acidity, minerals, bready, straw, hay and green apple skin with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Very decent stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2016
at 14:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared in High Wycombe - sourced from some online shop. Pours mostly clear gold with a slim white head. Nice aroma, some zesty citrus, tangerine, grapefruit. Light-medium sweet flavour with light wheat, melon, a little citric tang, more grapefruit. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Nicely balanced in the finish, with more citrus fruits, mellow tangy notes, melon, tangerine. Really good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2016
at 14:16
8/10
Tried
on 05 Nov 2016
at 14:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at The High WyCum tasting, Chez Bois, thanks to LKS 05/11/16. Lightly hazed golden blonde with a decen off white covering. Nose is lemon rind, floral notes, orange peel, clove, wihite pepper, shades of passionfruit. Taste comprises melon, wheaten bread, straw, lemon rind, clove, spice, citric drizzle, soft bread. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Aged circa 2 years, solid for style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2016
at 14:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Hazy golden color with a white head, good retention. Aroma has notes of yeast, light citrus, wheat. Flavor is mild bittery, with light acidic notes, yeasts are highly present with slightly citrusy notes. Mild acidic notes in the final with wheaty hints and some dry mouthfeel.
Tried
on 17 Apr 2016
at 16:41
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours orange with a quickly fading head.Aroma of orange peel, herbal notes, soft farmhouse notes. Quite acidic.Similar flavours, more tartness and some big mandarin notes. More orange peel, somewhat herbal.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2015
at 00:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Belgiuminabox. 4.5%. At some point I’ll get round to visiting Fantome. I’ve a soft spot for their beer. It’ll be a trek. I’ll be busting for a beer. I’ll revert back to my primal instincts, and fancy a lager and lime. All being well, I’ll get one of these...
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2015
at 14:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Courtesey of Kraddel. Sampled 750 ml. bottle @ De Rampkrot. Near clear orange with zero head. Nose is huge plastic sour lemon juice, aspirin, oddly strongly sour, big on lemon,…. Taste is bottled lemon juice mixed with aspirin, touch wild herbs, lactic but mainly hugely lemon sour with aspirin,… Sour wood. Med carbonation, very one note,…. Ugh, not sure even how this is a witbier. I am slightly tempted to say that the grapefruit version was way better but given batch variation that is a pointless statement plus I drank that one at the brewery where their beers still taste great. Earlier Rating: 9/15/2014 Total Score: 4.175 cl. bottle @ brewery split by 3. Thx! Label just said Blanche but they confirmed that they were indeed with added Grapefruit. Fantôme-style. It was very nice of them to open the bar just for us despite being closed & Dany Prignon to even give us a short tour on top despite being busy. Pours hazy golden, white bubbles on top. Nose is heavy on grapefruit peel, lots of it, light zest, candy sugar. Taste is way less grapefruit than I hoped for, bit comparable to saison on tap, candy sugar, yeast, spices, touch sweet only light almost lacto note with some zest & light grapefruit peel in the back, bitter peel after the sweetish stuff. Candy sugar body. Easy to drink. No coriander at all. Pretty good, first new good Fantôme beer in a long time. The Saison was really good on tap @ brewery but isn’t it always? Good to have something good by Fantôme once again after a long string of very disappointing stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2015
at 05:05