Is Fantome "back"?

[mahak213]

Anyone had the new vintage of Ete yet? Heard it was flat, but have since seen carbed pics of it. Cant wait to get my bottles!

Also interested in hearing about the newest batch!

 

[The Red Viper]

Anyone had the new vintage of Ete yet? Heard it was flat, but have since seen carbed pics of it. Cant wait to get my bottles!

Drank one last night. Not totally flat but close. Slightly underattenuated as well. Taste is fine especially after it warned, I enjoyed it, but it's not ready yet. Give bottles time. Hopefully they will carb up the rest of the way and develop some more funk (it's tart for sure but not super funky yet).

 

[Der Fuchs]

Anyone had the new vintage of Ete yet? Heard it was flat, but have since seen carbed pics of it. Cant wait to get my bottles!

Drank one last night. Not totally flat but close. Slightly underattenuated as well. Taste is fine especially after it warned, I enjoyed it, but it's not ready yet. Give bottles time. Hopefully they will carb up the rest of the way and develop some more funk (it's tart for sure but not super funky yet).

The one I had last night was next to perfect. New batch. Pretty much encompassed all i love about belgian beer. tasted a bit like a flanders red mixed with a saison. mild spice. nutty malt. tart and light bodied. just a hint of funk. Carb was fine. Will buy every bottle in the store.

 

[regularjohn]

The one I had last night was next to perfect. New batch. Pretty much encompassed all i love about belgian beer. tasted a bit like a flanders red mixed with a saison. mild spice. nutty malt. tart and light bodied. just a hint of funk. Carb was fine. Will buy every bottle in the store.

will buy every bottle and send me one LYMI

 

[bigern1]

check in here for the new batch. mine was totally flat

 

[mahak213]

Anyone know how many Ete were released this batch?

 

[pmoney]

Anyone had the new vintage of Ete yet? Heard it was flat, but have since seen carbed pics of it. Cant wait to get my bottles!

Opened a bottle with a few others on Wednesday. It was reasonably carbonated and delicious!

 

[RochesterAaron1]

Anyone had the new vintage of Ete yet? Heard it was flat, but have since seen carbed pics of it. Cant wait to get my bottles!

Drank one last night. Not totally flat but close. Slightly underattenuated as well. Taste is fine especially after it warned, I enjoyed it, but it's not ready yet. Give bottles time. Hopefully they will carb up the rest of the way and develop some more funk (it's tart for sure but not super funky yet).

The one I had last night was next to perfect. New batch. Pretty much encompassed all i love about belgian beer. tasted a bit like a flanders red mixed with a saison. mild spice. nutty malt. tart and light bodied. just a hint of funk. Carb was fine. Will buy every bottle in the store.

check in here for the new batch. mine was totally flat

Opened a bottle with a few others on Wednesday. It was reasonably carbonated and delicious!

Apparently that classic fantome bottle variation is still alive and well.

 

[sacrelicio]

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This is goooood.

I liked the base but the truffles gave me weird feels

 

[stakem1]

I liked the base but the truffles gave me weird feels

what is the base?

 

[stakem1]

Drank a bottle from the new batch of blanche on friday night... Absolutely unreal how good that beer is. However, it is a completely different beer from what I remember. Prior batches were almost excessively lemony. This new batch has no lemon, its straight juicy grapefruit with a cereal grainy character and a light tome funkiness to it. The kinda beer I could see myself drinking bottle after bottle of. Fantastic.

If I had the budget, I would buy every single bottle of this that is available online right now.

 

[Mandark]

Found bottles of last year's Noel on clearance at a Woodmans for $6.99 a few weeks back. Having a hard time controlling my curiosity and waiting to drink it during the holidays....

 

[stakem1]

Found bottles of last year's Noel on clearance at a Woodmans for $6.99 a few weeks back. Having a hard time controlling my curiosity and waiting to drink it during the holidays....

Same bottles shelfing it up here for $17-$19 per and I have to talk myself out of buying 1 everytime I see it.

Tomes under $10 per bottle. I dont even...

 

[sacrelicio]

what is the base?

I mean just the "beer" part

 

[stakem1]

sitting here crushing a bottle of the new batch of Ete

As you can see, carbonation-wise this is slowly getting swole. Visually the carb is getting there but not quite to the levels tomes typically have. Fizzy feels aside this is a tasty treat. Not the Ete im use to from past batches but its not like comparison to prior batches holds any meaning anyway. Its got a bready to biscuit grain character from start to finish with a pronounced tartness that is distinctly fruity/citrus-like yet unidentifiable. Very mild funk, earth and mineral finish to this.

Its already been said but Fantome is most certainly "back." Of the recent releases ive tried, I would totally burn all my extra money on: Blanche, Tous les Djapes and then this Ete or Sante 18. (In that order.)

 

[regularjohn]

patiently waiting to crack my noel, is it christmas yet?

 

[Thorpe]

sitting here crushing a bottle of the new batch of Ete

As you can see, carbonation-wise this is slowly getting swole. Visually the carb is getting there but not quite to the levels tomes typically have. Fizzy feels aside this is a tasty treat. Not the Ete im use to from past batches but its not like comparison to prior batches holds any meaning anyway. Its got a bready to biscuit grain character from start to finish with a pronounced tartness that is distinctly fruity/citrus-like yet unidentifiable. Very mild funk, earth and mineral finish to this.

Its already been said but Fantome is most certainly "back." Of the recent releases ive tried, I would totally burn all my extra money on: Blanche, Tous les Djapes and then this Ete or Sante 18. (In that order.)

Is that a filter, or is that batch that much darker? It seems like the original batch was way lighter:

 

[stakem1]

Is that a filter, or is that batch that much darker? It seems like the original batch was way lighter:

The newest batch is indeed significantly darker than the last. Here is my pic from the same barch you posted (as a reference using the same camera and lighting)

There appears to be both an amber and "orange" version of ete. The bottle of 1996 ete I drank with 1v1willwreku was just as dark as this new batch.

However, I also drank a '93 and '94 that were much lighter and golden orange colored.

If im not mistaken... Dunt dontdrinkbeer tectactoe KWMiles all drank the '06ish yellow label and it too was darker amber like this batch

Edit: ok technically not the same lighting because my flash was on today... but you get the drift. Also, i just put the old orange label beside the new one and they are close but not the same color. The new one has a best by 2017 date on the side, extra wording across the top and the orange color is darker almost reddish orange while then old is blaze hunter orange.

 

[Fingolfin]

The newest batch is indeed significantly darker than the last. Here is my pic from the same barch you posted (as a reference using the same camera and lighting)

There appears to be both an amber and "orange" version of ete. The bottle of 1996 ete I drank with 1v1willwreku was just as dark as this new batch.

However, I also drank a '93 and '94 that were much lighter and golden orange colored.

If im not mistaken... Dunt dontdrinkbeer tectactoe KWMiles all drank the '06ish yellow label and it too was darker amber like this batch

Edit: ok technically not the same lighting because my flash was on today... but you get the drift. Also, i just put the old orange label beside the new one and they are close but not the same color. The new one has a best by 2017 date on the side, extra wording across the top and the orange color is darker almost reddish orange while then old is blaze hunter orange.

This is the bottle tectactoe shared with us at Darkness Day.

 

[tectactoe1]

The newest batch is indeed significantly darker than the last. Here is my pic from the same barch you posted (as a reference using the same camera and lighting)

There appears to be both an amber and "orange" version of ete. The bottle of 1996 ete I drank with 1v1willwreku was just as dark as this new batch.

However, I also drank a '93 and '94 that were much lighter and golden orange colored.

If im not mistaken... Dunt dontdrinkbeer tectactoe KWMiles all drank the '06ish yellow label and it too was darker amber like this batch

Edit: ok technically not the same lighting because my flash was on today... but you get the drift. Also, i just put the old orange label beside the new one and they are close but not the same color. The new one has a best by 2017 date on the side, extra wording across the top and the orange color is darker almost reddish orange while then old is blaze hunter orange.

Somewhere in between. Perhaps a little darker than the batch you show above, but it could be the lighting, too. Definitely wasn't as dark as the new/96 batches, though. Light a turbid burnt orange color, I'd say.

Edit: ninja'd by KWMiles

 

[Der Fuchs]

This is the bottle tectactoe shared with us at Darkness Day.

dat yellow label!

 

[dontdrinkbeer]

shared a 2006 w Dunt ForgetFu and some other degenerates and it looked like a Biere De Garde, much darker than the 2004 or 2005 that I previously had, taste also strayed from the orange/citrus into a cherry extravaganza.

still banging. Can we shut this thread down so people keep trading for Pirate Bomb and stop ******* up the ghost supply.

 

[Thorpe]

The newest batch is indeed significantly darker than the last. Here is my pic from the same barch you posted (as a reference using the same camera and lighting)

There appears to be both an amber and "orange" version of ete. The bottle of 1996 ete I drank with 1v1willwreku was just as dark as this new batch.

However, I also drank a '93 and '94 that were much lighter and golden orange colored.

If im not mistaken... Dunt dontdrinkbeer tectactoe KWMiles all drank the '06ish yellow label and it too was darker amber like this batch

Edit: ok technically not the same lighting because my flash was on today... but you get the drift. Also, i just put the old orange label beside the new one and they are close but not the same color. The new one has a best by 2017 date on the side, extra wording across the top and the orange color is darker almost reddish orange while then old is blaze hunter orange.

Damn, literally wrote the book on Ete

 

[drgarage1]

shared a 2006 w Dunt ForgetFu and some other degenerates and it looked like a Biere De Garde, much darker than the 2004 or 2005 that I previously had, taste also strayed from the orange/citrus into a cherry extravaganza.

still banging. Can we shut this thread down so people keep trading for Pirate Bomb and stop ******* up the ghost supply.

Shut up: I'm trading a quadilonario for an Automne next week.

 

[ElkSherpa1]

what is the base?

Mostly Chateau Pilsner, plus one bag of Chateau Carapils and one bag ~50lbs of cane sugar. Goldings hops, but only during the last 10 mins of boiling.

 

[stakem1]

Mostly Chateau Pilsner, plus one bag of Chateau Carapils and one bag ~50lbs of cane sugar. Goldings hops, but only during the last 10 mins of boiling.

You better simmer down. Thats the most insight we have ever seen into a ghost recipe!

 

[ElkSherpa1]

You better simmer down. Thats the most insight we have ever seen into a ghost recipe!

I could tell you every detail of a brew day at Fantôme, and there would still be mystery! danyP is the only captain who can sail that ship.

 

[GoozySosa]

Keep it up and you'll become a ghost yourself ElkSherpa

 

[Snarf1]

I could tell you every detail of a brew day at Fantôme...

 

[Stuck_In_Iowa]

Now only if we were asking another question, is Peter Sellers "back"?