Macaquincoing
Brasserie Fantôme in Soy, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special|
Score
7.15
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Special recipe brewed with quinine, cardamom and quince juice.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Aroma is rather floral and herbal with notes of rosemary, oregano, sage? Some yeasty notes. Very floral and spiced/herbal. Lighly tartish with a mild sweetness. Body is medium. A bit too herbal for my taste but certainly rustic and interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2025
at 06:58
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottle, with cork code 086/477044 and Lot 28. Drunk 5/29/24. Clear copper-bronze. Small, densely-creamy, off-white head. Nose is beautiful saison yeast with plentiful white and black pepper, earth and cellar-like mustiness. Quinine adds brightness and balance to the extra malty base that shows rich honey and even a hint of graham cracker and light caramel. Clean with low cardamom (barely know it's there) and just a touch of juicy, lightly acidic fruit juice. In the mouth it's malty and soft with creamy, tight, engaging carbonation and reasonable attenuation. The adjuncts help balance and there's plentiful classic saison character here. By the very end of the bottle, the quinine builds up a bit much and provides quite a bit of bitterness, but the extra maltiness balances the adjuncts nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2024
at 00:07
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bought from Good Times Oakland, best before end of 2026.
It pours a hazy orange with a massive head of foam, long lasting and plenty of lacing.
The smell is fruity..pear yeasty, peppery, spicy, some band aid aroma, funky.
The taste is pears, white pepper, spicy, bitter, has some Brett, yeasty and dry as a bone. Oh and a bit of light tartness.
Medium bodied, lots of carbonation, I am enjoying this.
It pours a hazy orange with a massive head of foam, long lasting and plenty of lacing.
The smell is fruity..pear yeasty, peppery, spicy, some band aid aroma, funky.
The taste is pears, white pepper, spicy, bitter, has some Brett, yeasty and dry as a bone. Oh and a bit of light tartness.
Medium bodied, lots of carbonation, I am enjoying this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2024
at 16:38
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 750 ml, shared with Miro B. Hazy orange with large white head. Fruity, hoppy, brett, herbal, nice bitterness in finish, some yeast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2023
at 19:14
8/10
Bottle from Premier Gourmet in Amherst. Pours golden with a thick, thick layer of head. So the wait for it to settle out a bit begins... and wait... Spicy with a complex blend of flavours. That cardamom and quinine bitter, over a sweet hay malt, with a touch of citrus. Unique flavour. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2023
at 22:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample En Öl och Whiskey mässa 2023 Göteborg AR: herbal, sour, cardamom, fruit juice AP: hazy coppery, high frothy white F: herbal, sour, cardamom, fruit juice
Tried
on 07 May 2023
at 22:08
8/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2023
at 20:32
8.2/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2023
at 19:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle. Malty, funky and carbonated with some fruits, spices, hints of pear and herbal notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2022
at 08:24
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Bottle, 0.75 l, thanks VastActiv, at Arde, 20221021) The beer poured golden and hazy. Its head was huge and white. Aroma had nutmeg, dried orange and spiciness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were sourness, nutmeg, floralness, sweetness, floralness, black pepper and bitterness. Aftertaste was fruity, spicy and bitter. A weird and spicy brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2022
at 18:32