7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a deep murky brown color ale with a huge dirty brown color head with good retention. Aroma of funky yeast, tart and strange spices. Taste is quite different from anything I had before and includes traces of unknown spices, roasted malt, funky yeast and a sour finish. Again, a very interesting experiment from Danny but IMHO not as good as the Strange Ghost.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2005
at 08:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pale brown/orange, hazy colour. Rich head. Toffee and liquorice aroma. Light liquorice flavour. The after taste is very bitter, probably due to the dandelions. Dandelions are bitter. I think I prefer hop bitterness.
Tried
on 13 Jul 2005
at 14:04
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark brown colour. Rich head. I could go on and try to describe the complexity of the aromas and the flavours, but I think I will take the easy way out and put it like this; Fantôme Black Ghost smells and tastes A LOT like "Anchor Our Special Ale".
Tried
on 12 Jul 2005
at 12:15
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
Orange colour, very hazy. Dense head. Hoppy aroma with notes of orange peels. Dry, citric with a long hoppy, pine needle bitterness. A wonderful beer, but could some French-speaking person please explain the label!
Tried
on 11 Jul 2005
at 13:52
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
(Bottle 75 cl) Vintage 1996 "Automne". - red label. Dark amber with a fluffy yet collapsing head. Extreme, lumpy yeast sediment. Very fresh, slightly sourish with only a hint of bitterness in the finish. Some indefinable herbal spicyness. Rather solid yet unrefined beer. 190698 (Bottle 75 cl) Vintage 1999 "Hiver". Hazy light brown, small off-white head. Unpleasant smell of... cow-manure? Very soft and lightly spicy with a slight underlyimg tartness. But a bit old and tired. 6/2/5/2/12=2,7
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Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2005
at 12:00
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
I have never, ever seen so much pressure from a beer. We lost a quarter of the bottle opening it up. Green apples, barnyard, tart, cheese, spice in the nose. Very tart start to the mouth with green apples, earth, mold, but not rounded at all. Needs timie. Sour apples alcohol finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2005
at 09:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Light hazy amber golden color. Floaties (that can’t be good), really random carbonation. Sour lemon zesty, oranges, barnyard and a very very faint whiff of smoke. Slightly tart wet leather, oranges, yeasty, cardamon mouth. Dry bitter, mildly tart finish. Interesting stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jun 2005
at 09:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Fantome makes beer that’s easy to like, but difficult to love - if you don’t pay attention, really "focus" your palate, you miss all the great stuff the beer has to offer - this beer is a classic example of this - Golden color with a bit of copper, foamy ring of white lace - light aroma of wheat, dried herbs, grass, hops, mild bready sweetness, earthy tones - very soft on the palate for such high carbonation (quite characteristic of Fantome) - woody and spicy up front, making way for herbal, tea-like qualities - some hints of honey, maybe caramel, that mix surprisingly well with the herbal tones - one begins to wonder where the chocolate is, when all of a sudden, it swells up in the finish, combining with dry hops to create a cocoa-like flavor - very interesting stuff, but, as with all of their beer, so subtle that it’s easy to miss what is going on.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2005
at 19:42
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample at the Mondiale 2005: Poured an extremely cloudy color ale with big thick head with good retention. Aroma of juniper and rosemary are extremely easy to detect. Taste is a mix between the rosemary and the Belgian yeast with a real farmhouse taste behind it. I really enjoyed this non-conventional beer.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2005
at 10:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2005 bottle at the Mondial. Hazy, copper-amber, muddy, brown. Lots of yeast suspended. Head provides lacing. Beige, somewhat retained, but slowly works its way to a ring. Aroma is very herbal, bitter, astringent dry, but the yeast flavor and aroma is amazing. Dry tea. Flavor is vinegar, herbs, leafy/fuzzy green hops, hemp. Quite oily on the palate, though not watery. Not much sweetness, low tingly carbonation. Very very herbally, wow. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2005
at 10:30