7.5% - Hazy yellow colour with thin head. There is a base Saison flavour with typical yeastiness. On top citrusy hops. Lots of lemon peel bitterness, it's the dominant element. Citrusy coriander.

Bottle. Cork popped out like a rocket grenade. Huge gusher, beer went almost to the ceiling. Luckily I was warned and was able to cellect a little nore than half of the bottle in two glasses. Color: Very hazy golden, like a fruity Hazy NEIPA. Huge white head. Aroma: Hoppy, vegetable, fruity hints, yeasty hints. Taste: Medium bitter, hoppy, vegetables, paprika, spicy and yeasty notes, dried orange zest. Long lasting finish. Bitter palate. Light sweetness. Dry, astringent mouthfeel at finish. Mwah. Normally i do like Fantôme, but this is not my kind of beer.

Set the bottle down after pouring a large glass, _then_ it gushed extravagantly. Cloudy amber with some chunks, a fluffy inch of white head. Aroma of citrus rind, melted plastic, some ointment, spices. Softer texture than you'd guess and dryish with spices (including after a while, sweet paprika) and plastic notes and grapefruit peel. Moderate bitterness. Faulty but still compelling. Not a DIPA. [Probably is the 9.3% listed here not the 7.5% on the bottle though. heh.]

Collaboration of the legendary Walloon 'experimental' brewery Fantôme with Toccalmatto, one of Italy's foremost craft brewers; 75 cl bottle with cork. Apparently intended as a DIPA spiced with paprika... Gusher to the extreme: I removed the crown cap but not the cork, went to the living room to fetch a glass, heard a suspicuous 'bang' and went back to find the cork lying on a table two yards away from the bottle, which itself had turned into a fountain of beer - making me lose about 2/5 of the content to the sink (luckily I did put it in the sink to begin with)... Egg-white, mousy, shred-lacing, thick but irregular 'gusher head' on a completely murky, ochre-ish beige 'beer' more looking like some kind of fruit smoothie. Weird yet complex aroma: old moldy oranges, lots of moist paprika powder, banana, cloves, curry powder and even pure ginger powder, stewed celery, old bread dough, sesame seed, fried apple, honey, old chicken spices, rosemary, minerals, sweat and - warming up - an unmistakable, clinical-phenolic aspect of band aid. Sweetish, wildly estery onset, banana, peach, pear, cooked apples, pineapple even, sourish undertone accentuated by sharp carbonation; full and very 'fluffy' body, soft doughy malt base, sweetish with a flour-like aspect to it, buried under lots of ongoing fruity esteriness, huge phenolic activity (cloves - but also that off-putting band aid again) and actual spiciness from the paprika, also tasting a bit ginger- and curry powder-like, as announced by the nose. Orangey hoppiness is there as well, representing the IPA intentions I guess, but the phenols and added spice are much stronger; lots of 'warm fruit' lingers sweetly at the back, with only a soft bitterness to counter it, but admittedly the alcohol remains well hidden. Another utterly bizarre Fantôme concoction - little of Toccalmatto's house style is to be found, and the whole is a definitely weird 'amalgam' of cooked fruit, grandma's spice rack, dough and 'clinic'. Hadn't it been for that last aspect, I would have enjoyed this daft and peculiar brew more, I guess; as for its IPA intentions: I get the idea, a NEDIPA was probably the intention here, but in the hands of Fantôme, everything turns into wild, estery, overly spicy and sometimes downright messy saison of some sort... Quite unique, that much is clear, so I am willing to hand out some points for idiosyncracy alone, but the extreme gushing, unattractive murky-muddy look and overly phenolic effects need to be addressed - urgently.

Flaska från Etre Gourmete. Gusher! Grumlig gulorange vätska med massor av skum. Fruktig med drag av multivitaminjuice, mangopure, apelsindessert, vetesyrlig. Bra balans för att vara mycket. Gott

6/XII/19 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Klaas’ place, BBE: 2020, lot: 6jlt18 - (2019-2131)

SLOW GUSHER ALERT! Very cloudy orange beer with some chunks in it, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very soapy, lots of marijuana, orange peel, bit floral, oily impression, wet moldy grains, coriander. MF: lively carbon, merium to light body. Taste: spicy start, dry, moldy, lots of orange peel, coriander, bitter notes, bit resinous, weird. Aftertaste: quite alcohol, plastic and rubber, bit oxidized, rather unpleasant, pretty bad, chemical and soapy, what the hell? This is a pretty bad one…

75cl bottle (I have searched many webs sites with this beer and everywhere is 9,3% yet bottle has 7,5%, BBF: end 2022) from Brasserie 28 by Caulier in Brussels. F: huge, egg-white, open with a lot of pressure small gusher even after pouring glass, good retention. C: gold, milky hazy. A: nice saison funky, bit spicy, bit old bread, herbal, mellow fruity. T: medium malty base, spicy, dry on the palate, bit vinous touch, paprika is somehow incorporated in a taste but not in a best way for me, orange peels, some juicy tropical fruits, first impressions were bad and when the high carbonation calm down I realized it is not bad beer at all, something between NEIPA and saison.