Fantôme Del Rey
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Brasserie FantômeFarmhouse - Saison Rotating
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Score
7.17
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The Texas version of Fantôme Del Rey is a bière de coupage where old, barrel-aged beer is blended with young beer. The older component of the blend was brewed at Jester King in August of 2014 with malted barley, dark candi syrup, ground coriander, and black peppercorns. It was initially fermented in stainless steel with truffle honey, and then racked to oak for extended maturation. We brewed the younger version in November of 2015, and blended the old with the young. The blend was then 100% naturally refermented in bottles, kegs, and casks. At the time of packaging, Fantôme Del Rey was 8.8% alcohol by volume, 1.002 specific gravity, 19 IBU, and 3.6 pH.
Six years later, we're excited to release it once again.
Fantôme del Rey was brewed with Hill Country well water, Texas-grown barley and wheat malt from TexMalt, organic Fuggles hops, Belgian candi sugar, coriander, and black peppercorns. It was fermented in stainless steel with our mixed culture, then re-fermented with truffle honey. We naturally conditioned it for four months in green bottles. We hope you enjoy this project of spontaneity that originally sprang to life on a trip to visit one of our inspirations eight years ago!
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GenDV138 (9249) reviewed Fantôme Del Rey from Jester King Brewery 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Batch #3 on draft. Clear golden yellow with off-white ring of head. Aroma and taste has herbal and spice notes, some citrus and honey. A little funk on the taste as well. Solid.
mart (27297) ticked Fantôme Del Rey from Jester King Brewery 1 year ago
Magus, hapu, mõru, tsitrus, mesi, herbaalne. Ok, huvitav.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Bottleworks, pours a hazy bright golden with a small white head. Aroma reveals fermented out honey, complex rustic farmhouse notes, and a touch of spiciness. Flavour has plenty of honey — only moderately fermented out — with farmhouse notes, some spiciness that's rather buried, and residual honey sugars. It's alright—a bit muddled.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
5-10-23 HCB
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Fantôme Del Rey from Jester King Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
27 September 2022. At Jester King Brewery. Shared with the lovely Anke!
Hazy orange, thin, white head. Aroma of apricot, plum, peach, honey, spices, mustard. Taste has sweet-sour plum & apricot, spicy clove, coriander and sourdough-like maltiness. Tart finish with peppery hops and mustardy spices. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Quite complex and enjoyable.
Blend #1 - 03-22-2016. Delicious honey, peppery, yeasty funky thing. Deliciously smooth and complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
750mL bottled 3/22/17, drunk 12/9/17.
Lightly hazy, tangerine-honey colored body is well-carbonated. Small off-white head sits at cover/ring.
Smells like a lot of apple and white pepper, with a good bit of clove and a whole bunch of other random phenols. Kind of musty, funky, though not necessarily in a good way. Moderate lactic character and some cereal grains behind it. I don't know, it just doesn't seem to have any focus.
In the mouth it's got a bit of honey-like sweetness, lots of carbonation and a slick-to-oily texture with moderate wood tannin. Dry, of course, and with tons of apple, white pepper and clove on the finish. I love dry, funky Belgian beers and spices and herbs more than the next guy, but this just seems strange for the sake of being strange. Very unfocused. Not sure what they were going for here. My distaste of Fantome continues...
Chalumeaux (4962) ticked Fantôme Del Rey from Jester King Brewery 8 years ago
CLW (16859) reviewed Fantôme Del Rey (Blend #1) from Jester King Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750 ml bottle, thanks to ClarkVV, I Guess? Aromas is funk, tart, funky apricots skins, musty basement notes. Flavor is lemon rind, old malt, acid. The finish is old citrus peel, dry hay stacks and a mild acidic hint. Ummmm, not for me at all.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured from bottle March 2016 thanks ClarkVV golden pour with a nice white head. Aromas of honey yeast spices tart citrus. Taste is tart citrus honey spices yeast.