La Gourmande
Brasserie Fantôme in Soy, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Special Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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Bière à l'épeautre de Hotton.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle courtesy of Bu11zeye: Poured a hazy medium beige color ale with big foamy head with good retention and great lacing. Aroma is quite sour with some funky yeast also discernable. Taste is a mix between sourness and some oak as well as some light funky yeast and it finished on some dry notes. Body is full with some great carbonation. Another interesting experiment from this brewer which doesn’t meet all my expectation (a bit too dry and more funk would have improve this beer) but it is still enjoyable and wouldn’t mind having another go at.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2007
at 11:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Aroma of malt, spice, citrus, and something earthy. Beautiful orange amber color with a vigorous white head that stays and laces. Starts lightly, very lightly sour, with fresh fruit flavors. Not so much citrus as stone fruit and/or melon. Quite a full mouthfeel. Vigorous, but non-acidic carbonation. The finish is more remnants of sour than bitter. A good, dry finish. It’s really very refreshing.
Tried
on 11 Apr 2007
at 21:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Thanks to Kinz for bringing this to the 4th Richmond Gathering. Very hazy orange to yellow body with a medium creamy white head. Sweet highly spiced aroma, some cinnamon, winter spices, and some light citrus. Sweet spicy flavor, with some citrus tones.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2006
at 15:32
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Corked bottle
The cork popped with a loud sound; light amber color; fizzy head, small; nice perlage. Aroma of old malt, fresh wood, cellar. Medium body structure, some malt flavor; it has a nice woody astringency, tart, Belgian hops, good level of bitterness. Interesting and very good.
The cork popped with a loud sound; light amber color; fizzy head, small; nice perlage. Aroma of old malt, fresh wood, cellar. Medium body structure, some malt flavor; it has a nice woody astringency, tart, Belgian hops, good level of bitterness. Interesting and very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2006
at 04:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Thanks to Ztrvz for this one. Barnyard around that includes flowers. Cloudy gold and some head as well. Light herbal and fruity flavor, but so light that it is disappointing. Still good, but there should be more to this beer. Good, substantial body. Somewhat refreshing.
Tried
on 28 May 2006
at 00:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Huge, coarse-laced, off-white head. Bronze body with ongoing carbonation and some bubbles. Aroma dominated by lemon with a Belgian yeast profile behind it, together with mysterious spices. Excellent aroma, and very mysterious. Taste is deep and intense, again lots of lemon, somewhat sourish and salt-like, reminiscent of soap. The lemon is a little cloying, and before we pour the yeast in the body is a bit thin. Spicy taste lingers. Actually, this is in some ways reminiscent of a lambic. Taste is a little cloying and overdone. Still, an interesting beer, quite good. (0.75l bottle.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2006
at 10:04
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Primarily a musty aroma with fruit tones. Orange yellow with large, quick collapsing head. Light apple juice flavor transitioning to a musty, dry flavor - very much dry wine-like. A nice drier saison.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2005
at 19:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at London Gathering Nov 05. Golden cloudy colour with no head. Sour lemon and other good citruic fruits. Finish has good fruits. Bit of farmyard. Somehow I detected lentils in the taste as well. More citric lime on the finish. My first Fantome, I think and it has stirred my interest to try others.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2005
at 09:06
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Reddish-amber-honey color with a thin white head. Sour aroma with some lemon. Sweet/tart flavor with lemon and some spiciness. A bit refreshing. Mixing in the yeast adds a touch of vomit that isn’t all that unpleasant. Here’s my take on this beer - it seems like the people who rate it high don’t mention a sour/tart flavor. The people who rate it low notice this. Infection? Who knows. But my bottle wouldn’t have been a bad gueze, but it wasn’t what I was expecting with it’s almost Cantillon like sourness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2005
at 21:35
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy gold with a freshly pressed lemon aroma. Lactic acid sourness, earthy and lemony with light malt. Lighter bodied. (Sept. 2004)
Tried
on 13 Dec 2004
at 21:45