Nuit Noire - Calvados
Brasserie Fantôme in Soy, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Special Out of Production|
Score
6.91
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Fantôme Special stored from Long date in Calvados wood barrel.
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7/10
Pours black to brown with zero head or carbonation. Oily, chocolatey, woody, some fruita
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 02:14
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
25cL bottle drunk 10/14/24. Seems mostly still. Dark chocolate. No head. Bright, fruity, apple brandy with a healthy mix of prune, tobacco and earthy cacao. Good yeast character on it, with no crude esters/phenols that I can find. Not boozey. Excellent barrel balance without any heavy woodiness or sharp liquor character. Surprisingly mellow all around. Rich and thick, lightly syrupy with a bit of alcohol drying out the finish. Rich malts yet solid attenuation for its size. Prune, raisin, chocolate, tobacco all in good balance. Yeah, probably a bit gratuitous on the alcohol, though it doesn't really bother me. It's not hot, anyways. Just sort of bitter and present. As a strong Belgian ale, it's nice and innovative, attempting the contemporary American Imperial Stout, it seems. Like the Laphroaig version, I think it's a great success. Weird that all these people that give the boozey, thick Imperial Stouts a 4.5 are panning this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2024
at 21:45
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
RBESG 2023, Zagreb Grand Tasting. Thanks! Dark. Intense roasty aroma, alcohol strongly felt, molasses and honey. Roasty flavour, burnt, chocolate and molasses. Very thick, full, moderately drinkable, finishes sweet.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2023
at 13:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, 330 ml at RBESG 2023. Black with almost no head. Oily. Dried fruit, quite strong alcohol, strong wood and barrel. Cheers Franco in a better place!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2023
at 19:52
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle at RBESG GT 2023. Shitloads of unpleasant boozy warmth, which kinda destroys the supple chocolatey toffeeish maltiness lying underneath. Is this the pinnacle? No, this is the shittacle. You took a perfectly good beer and let it go to ruin in a nonsense barrel. Good job.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2023
at 12:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled at the RBESG 23 grand tasting. Enormous, ginormous thanks to Travlr who brought it and explained its backstory to us! Pitch black body, almost no head. Enormous aroma - alcohol and chocolate basically, with some caramel. Chocolate-driven dry, bitter taste, qutie a bit of apple schnapps... I mean calvados, and overall just too warming to get more. Still, huge respect!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2023
at 17:25
7/10
Alcohol, roast, chocolate, boozy, bready, bitter
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2023
at 18:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
RBESG 2023. Dark brown color wirh no head. Dark malt, coffee, alcohol in this beer. OK
Tried
on 16 Jul 2023
at 16:45
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
--Bottled at RBESG Grand Tasting 2023. -- Black, small brown head. Aroma of tobacco and black pepper. Sweet with immense body and rounded mouthfeel. Licorice and tobacco, fierce alcohol and calvados. Intensely warming finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2023
at 16:44