(Soy, BELGIUM) – What you are looking at above is an old label scan from several years ago. That is because La Brasserie Fantome has sent over Fantome Pissenlit to the U.S. for the first time in five years; the beer is now available in 750 mL bottles. If you rummage through the beer reviews out there, you will see that ones from earlier in the year are for 2003 and 2004 vintages.

The beer is an 8% ABV Saison.

Here is the description from the site of the importer, The Shelton Brothers: “Dany [Prignon] and some cohorts get busy every spring picking bushels of dandelions that grow in the fields around the picturesque farmhouse brewery. The yellow flowers are removed and dried in the sun, then soaked in water for a few days. The thick, dark dandelion “tea” that results is the basis for the Pissenlit, which is made also from traditional barley malt and hops. It resembles a classic saison beer – golden spritzy brew, strong and very flavorful, with a good hop bite.”

“‘Pissenlit’ is the French word for dandelion. Literally, it means ‘pee in bed.’ […]”