Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
On tap at the brewery. Slightly hazy deep gold color, large off-white head, massive lacing. Aroma of lightly buttered white and rye breads. Taste has some light spice, maybe coriander, and decent malt. Hint of citrus near the finish. Easy to drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ the Horse school WSF-08 afterparty in Opstal.Clear yellow orange amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lancing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, tobac, spicy, moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (240508)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy golden with tiny off white head. Sweet yeasty with spicy and caramel notes. Ends sweet. Mild hoppy end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap, brewery. Cloudy orange color, big off-white head. Soft aroma of some hop, bit caramel malt, some fruit like peach perhaps. Soft bitter taste, bit sweet and malty, grapefruit. Bit thin, but decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Ye effin’ Gods!! I search this most elusive of Belgian beers for 15 years, and when I finally get my hands on a bottle, carefully preserve it to settle, and in the mean time this ohmepoorheadcharacter gets his rating here before me! Huge, slightly yellowish head, fed by good carbonation from hazy yellow-orange beer. Rainwater, farmyard odours, grain, citrus, saddlesoap, yeasty esters. Quite nice at first, but becomes a tad oppressive. Surprising soft-sweet taste with perfumey flavours of rosewater/"amandine", faint citrus leaf, bit of sweet malt. Slightly less depth than the nose, but agreable all the same. Quite slick, on par with a reasonably high restsugar content, but not very thick MF, medium bodied at best. Not as complex as the better Fantômes, but way better than the ’ordinary’ Marckloff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
[Bottled (as Louisiana 2006)] Cloudy golden. Intense aroma of cherry and winegum. Medium sweet with rounded mouthfeel and medium bodied. Some perfume and esters reveal a close relationship to Fantôme. An excellent, rare ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Draught at the brewery) Hazy peach-yellow; huge, dense, creamy white head, leaving beautiful lace. Spicey nose, seems coriander and celeri, bit of citruspeel. Sharp spicey, bitterish taste, some restsugars drowned underneath, flattening out in the finish. Some citrus again. Adstringency in the back of the throat. Light to medium bodied. In the aftertaste, I seem to get chamomille, and again citruspeel. I did not care for the first spicey bite. Don’t know what it caused, as it disappeared later. Marckloff has cleaned out since I drank this first, but it still isn’t one of my favourites. A second glass had a much more hoppy aftertaste. They have a second beer "Louisiane", which must be the most elusive Belgian beer. Whenever I went there, they are always "just gone out of it".
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled draught at the brewpub in Durbuy.
A charming place to be in. The one beer available is brewed by the same brewmaster that brews the Fantôme beers, and you can tell it from the estery, yeasty aroma. The beer is pale orange and cloudy with rich head. The body is light, yet the maltiness is firm. It is quite dry, and the mouthfeel is fresh and vital - winegumlike! A soothing, yet complex drink.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
An amber slightly hazy beer with a good head. It has a very fresh fruit aroma. It has the flavor of a really good malt blend with some spices - my guess oranges. It's a pretty sweet beer. Overall a great beer, that I'd like to have again - only problem: as far as I know it is only sold on the premises in Durbuy. The one I brought home and drank four months after my visit at the brasserie tasted far better than on the premises - is it the lagering - or just a memory lapse?