7.8/10
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark beer with a musty, fruity and dense aroma. The flavour is generally very dense and fruity with a general light Belgian undertone. Overall a pleasant Belgian strong ale that tastes very light.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2004
at 09:30
6/10
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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
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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
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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.
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
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
(draught)Orange-amber; white rim. Flowery nose, citrus-orange, hops and herbal. Taste with bog-myrtle, herbal, faint citrus as limequat; traces of maltsugars retronasal, as well as piney. A bit thinnish mouthfeel, really. More than OK, but it misses the Fantôme magic of their better bottles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2003
at 12:27