Expressive hazily copper artisanal farmhouse ale brings bold 8% alcohol jab to initial Granny Smith apple tartness, secondary green grape souring, and tertiary prune-fig dryness. Earthen mineral-grained pomegranate interlude lamentably whisked away by leathery cork aridity and dank cellar acridity. Fantome, like many fine Old World Belgian breweries, enjoys experimenting within the expanding boundaries of beer styling.
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WEYERBACHER MUSE FARMHOUSE ALE
Unbalanced funky barnyard ale remains astringent as raw-grained earthiness and grassy hay parch drench off-putting rye-dried white-peppered lemongrass herbage to sour lemon finish. Wood-lacquered burnt rubber hint further ruins moderate-bodied saffron-hazed treachery. Better supplemental sugar malting needed.
(BALADIN) WAYAN SAISON STYLE ALE
FANTOME SAISON D’EREZEE – PRINTEMPS
Temporal white-wined Chardonnay dryness secures lasting green apple tartness and variable lemony grapefruit souring of straw-hazed dry-bodied Saison. Floral rose-saffron waft appends musty barnyard, horse blanket, and fresh-cut hay peripheral to black-peppered fruit-tannic finish. Shake up bottom yeast sediment to expose honeyed medicinal lushness.
YARDS SAISON BELGIAN STYLE ALE
Nondescript fizzy Seltzer lightweight needs better coriander-spiced orange peel thrust, deeper malt penetration. stiffer peppery hop sway, and tarter floral-dried lemon-apricot-grapefruit medley. Lazy, hazy, pale-toned session beer suffers further when horse-blanket mustiness lessens sweet banana nose and candied coriander-clove sensation. Belgian yeast influence indiscernible.
(BLAUGIES) DARBYSTE ALE
Brewed with complimentary (instead of dominant) fig juice, vinous viscous-coppered Belgian retains fluffy white head, clumped yeast sediment, and sharp cider tartness. Pungent grapefruit-dried tangerine-peach tang compels sulky sour grape acidity and cork-y herbal pinch to soak up honeyed malt sweetness. A bit too sudsy as an after dinner drink.
FLYING DOG WILD DOG COLORADO SAISON ALE
Soft-textured bottle-conditioned pearly-headed amber-hazed saison explodes in mouth like heavily carbolic champagne. Wafting barnyard funk wavers above tart lemony grapefruit musk, faint banana-apple-apricot tuft, and white-peppered basil-thyme herbage to fizzy curacao orange cusp. Dusted citron spicing provides delicate white ale zest.
(BLAUGIES) SAISON D’EPEAUTRE ALE
(BLAUGIES) LA MONEUSE SAISON
An airtight package of extremes, peculiar rust-hued Belgian farmhouse ale brings musty fruit dankness to pungent mushroom-y earthiness with no odd offensiveness. As flooded basement waft subsides, sour chamomile tea complements honeyed banana sweetness and corky peach-apricot-grape esters for tartly rewarding obscurity.