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Fantome Dark Spiritus Winter

Name: Fantome Dark Spiritus Winter
Brand: Fantome
SKU: 19408
Price: 12.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£12.00

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Producer Fantome

Country Belgium

Region Ardennes, Wallonia

ABV 6%

Tasting Notes

Mulled Cherry, Black Treacle, Winter Spice and Cellar Earth

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Belgium Saison Wild

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Szechuan Food Light Salad Pork Seafood Oysters

Quantity

Don’t forget your bottle opener!

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More About Fantome Dark Spiritus Winter

Dark Saison

This dark, characterful Saison pours a deep mahogany-brown with flashes of ruby at the edges, capped by a dense, beige foam that clings to the glass.

The nose leans rustic and inviting — toasted rye bread, cracked pepper, and a subtle herbal freshness reminiscent of wild thyme and dried leaves after rain. There’s a faint caramel warmth underneath, adding depth without tipping into sweetness.

On the palate it’s lively and energetic, with a gentle tang that brightens the darker malt backbone. Notes of toffee and baked crust mingle with expressive farmhouse yeast character — peppery, slightly earthy, and complex. The finish dries out steadily, leaving a firm, grounding bitterness and a lingering spice that encourages another sip.

Structured yet vibrant, it balances dark malt richness with classic Saison lift and dryness.

Meet the Producer, Fantome

Fantome

Style: Brewery

Fantôme operates deep in the Belgian Ardennes making beer that often feels like it was brewed by a woodland wizard who refuses to explain himself properly. The brewery has become legendary in farmhouse beer circles for saisons and mixed fermentation beers that range from beautifully rustic to completely baffling depending on the batch, the season or possibly the phase of the moon.

Founded by Dany Prignon in the late 1980s, Fantôme built its reputation on small-batch brewing full of spice, wild yeast character and absolute unpredictability. Recipes shift constantly, ingredients appear and disappear without warning and labels rarely prepare you for what’s about to happen inside the bottle. Some beers pour glowing orange and taste of herbs and citrus. Others seem to drift into pepper, earth, cellar funk and tropical fruit all at once. Belgian brewing gets weird sometimes.

The brewery’s saisons sit at the centre of everything though. Dry, lively, earthy and packed with yeast-driven complexity, they carry that classic farmhouse energy while still feeling unmistakably Fantôme. There’s a looseness and chaos to the beers that modern ultra-controlled brewing often scrubs away entirely.

Part of why people obsess over Fantôme is that the brewery never really chased consistency or scale. The beers still feel handmade, eccentric and slightly mysterious. Beer geeks absolutely love this sort of thing because every bottle feels like a small gamble that might turn into magic.