Brasserie Fantôme

Microbrewery in Soy, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Brasserie Fantôme

Established in 1988

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Rue Préal 8, Soy, 6997, Belgium
Description
Founded in 1988, Brasserie Fantôme has gained international attention and a cult following among lovers of craft beers. Owned and run by Dany Prignon, Fantôme is known for its unique variations on the Saison style of farmhouse ale, often involving the use of herbs, spices or fruit juice. Within the craft beer community, Fantome saisons are considered highly desirable and have developed a significant audience in the United States and United Kingdom. Ironically, while their complex, earthy, and herbal flavors have caused them to be sought out by connoisseurs outside of Belgium, Fantôme's products are difficult to find and not well known in the country of their origin.

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8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
Dark brown, fully hazy; slim rim of yellowish foam. Cypress nose, fresh juniper, some dark candi sugar. Again a fresh taste, like blueberry, myrtle, bog-myrtle, and enormous depths and strange and rare malts. Truly amazing. Very well-bodied. Again a just superb realisation by Dany. I'm more than impressed. Has to be tasted to be believed. BUT... a Flemish brown???
Tried from Can on 08 Mar 2004 at 05:05

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
White beer with a spicy lemony aroma. Very nioce fruits, bananasa, spices and confectioner's sugar. Body is quite superb, and the tartness would go well in the summer. Miam....
Tried on 07 Mar 2004 at 13:21

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Beautiful red colour, only slightly hazy; reddish tinted head, collapsing. Opening the bottle gives an explosion of fruity, funky flavours, but very volatile, leaving a gingery-fruity smell. Taste is smokey, tobacco flavours, cigarette ash - perpendicular on the nose impression. Some slight acidity, and -burn. Impressive for a 6% ABV beer. Alcohol/acidburn. Another great one from Dany P. How does he do it?
Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2004 at 18:20

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
An opaque dark amber beer with a fine off-white dense head. The aroma is sweet with notes of yeast and fruit. The flavor is sweet and sour with notes of grapefruit, citrus, roasted bread, malt, and hints of coffee. A nice beer from a good brewery.
Tried on 28 Feb 2004 at 22:13

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
The aroma is sweet malty with notes of corriander. The color is an unclear dark orange-red and it has a fine off white head. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of corriander. The carbonation runs over the tongue before it ends on a dry hoppy note.
Tried on 25 Feb 2004 at 16:47

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cloudy golden color, medium white head. Aroma is sweet and sour, some kind of artificial strawberry aroma, bit yeasty character. Taste is sweet and sour, some candy sugar, milky and creamy body. Not the kind of beer i usually like, but this one is ok.
Tried from Can on 07 Feb 2004 at 05:26

8.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
Very cloudy beige. Funky, spicy, sour aroma - you know this is Fantome right away. Lightish, flowery (chamomile), funky and acidic. Probably one of the more straightforward Fantomes but quite delicious nonetheless. A statement in understatedness.
Tried on 01 Feb 2004 at 19:50

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
[Vintage 2000 - sampled January 2004 - read 7.2% ABV on the label] The beer was very lively when uncorked. The aroma is very spicy - but I'm not able to tell the spices. The color is orange and it has a huge white head though collapsing. The flavor is fruity with loads of spicys; banana, peach, cloves, lemon, corriander, and many more. The end is lemony but still somewhat dry. An interesting beer, but more special, than one I'll go back for. But I'm happy to have sampled it.
Tried on 13 Jan 2004 at 15:47

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
The aroma is sweet and malty. The color is a hazy orange and it has a fine head. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel, grain, and straws. The end is sweet rather than bitter. A nice beer.
Tried on 09 Jan 2004 at 19:05

8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 10 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Rating #900:
Orange/Copper/Amber colour body with a perfect dense off-white head that leaves a really nice lace. Aroma of citrus, hops, oranges, coriander seed, cherries, slightly herbal...but VERY nice! Medium-bodied; Herbal, Woody, Spicey bite to the taste, with more of a drying oak flavour than any of the aformentioned fruits! Very complex in aroma and flavour...but definately expected with the brewery! Aftertaste is dark and spicey, but also having a slight tartness. Overall, this beer is exactly how I imagined it would be...a great way to celebrate #900! I bought this 75 cL bottle at Premier Gourmet in Buffalo, New York and sampled it on 14-December-2003, the day the world heard that Saddam Hussein was captured by the United States.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Dec 2003 at 23:01