hazy orange/golden with a frothy white head and lots of carbonation in the glass. aroma of mango, orange and passion fruit. Taste of fruit juice, fizzy carbonation, mango, passion fruit, peach, orange, some citrus/fruit sourness, zest, medium sweet, weak bitter, way too fizzy and not fond of the blend, like mango fanta.

Oranje kleurig bier met mooie schuimkraag die snel wegzakt. Smaak is fris licht zuur met iets van fuit, passievrucht, en ananas. Een iets ander fruitbier dan normaal en daarom best aan te bevelen.

Cette Jungle Joy est elle réellement une bière? A vrai dire j'ai eu plutôt l'impression de boire un soda fruité. Avec 6,6 % Abv nous sommes pourtant loin d'un soda, mais une acidité bien présente ne permet pas à ce dernier d'être efficace. Une acidité moins présente aurait d'ailleurs été nécessaire pour que les arômes aient une meilleure assise. Elle en serait devenu plus appréciable. Blond doré en verre avec un EBC de 21, notre Jungle Joy est surmontées d'une mousse blanc cassée aérée abondante. Les arômes ai nez sont la mangue, les fruits de la passion et le résineux. Ceux-ci s'expriment alors bien, au contraire de la dégustation où l'acidité ne permet pas une bonne exploitation de cette palette. L'attaque est acidulée avec une petite amertume (IBU peu poussé de 20) avec en retrait la base fruitée, péicée et résineuse. La deuxième bouche permet aux arômes de gagner quelque peu en ampleur et de s'exprimer davantage sur une relativement bonne complexité avec toujours fruits exotiques, mangue, résineux et épices. L'acidité est cependant toujours présente et contraint l'ensemble. l'acidité est de plus renforcée par le fait qu'aucun sucre n'ait été ajouté. L'arrière bouche d'ailleurs principalement sur l'acidité déséquilibre l'ensemble et laisse place à une troisième bouche acide laissant place à un final trop court. Dommage que les déséquilibre soient aussi patent car avec Hersbrucker, Magum et Mosaic, la complexité aromatique est là quand on arrive à la déceler. Il est vrai que le fruit de la passion est acide, mais ne fallait il pas alors contrebalancer cette acidité? Une chose est certaine, cette Jungle Joy désaltérera en été. Mais autant s'acheter du soda.

Bottle in Café Bebo, Brussels, in the company of Dad, Barry and Scott Thursday 7th March 2018 Pours hazy warm orange with a filmy white head. Fruity with a little summer fruits, and passion fruit in abundance. It finishes a touch dry, like it. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov16 3.6

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Belgian 'ambrée' with passionfruit and mango, one of the latest BBP beers to pass their quality check and make it into 'mass' production - had this quite radomly at some pub in Ghent last week, but I thought I already rated it. Which was apparently not the case, so here's from a bottle bought at a Delhaize supermarket: thinnish, off-white, relatively coarse head quickly reduced to a moussy ring (with open middle) which eventually completely disappears over an immediately misty peach blonde beer with ochre hue, not quite 'amber' in the literal sense of the word. Aroma of freshly cut spring onions, stale yellow grapefruit juice, leek soup, sourdough, some light mango chutney, gherkins, maracuja indeed but not very expressively so, freshly cut red apples, but also spoiled vegetable soup, raw parsnip, potato juice, spicy phenols almost bordering on medicinal herb-like scents, raw spinach, soaking wet camomile. Crisp onset, estery with notes of unripe green banana, fresh apple and some pineapple, restrainedly sweet with a sourish, almost green gooseberry-like edge reinforced by very fizzy, coarse, minerally carbonation; basically smooth, rounded mouthfeel though, yet coarsened by this sharp carbonation. Mango-like sweetness and passionfruit-like sweet-and-sourishness indeed, but remotely so, both lingering over a slick, bread crust- and very lightly caramel- or peanut-like maltiness with more sweetness than sourness remaining at the end - fortunately. Ends quite crisp, with retronasally oniony and citrus peel-like impressions yet in an 'old' and withered kind of way, along with remaining fruit pulp sweetishness (though not too much so), honeyish residual sugars, quite outspoken phenolic notes, light caramelly maltiness and late but relatively adequate, earthy and medium spicy hop bitterness, which lasts for quite a while. Weird concoction, technically not completely 'there' as is the case with most of their beers - as always with BBP (excluding their collabs, as my good friend SterV, who worked for them, pointed out) I am left with a feeling that something is lacking from a pure technical viewpoint. This could and should have been better, with more head retention, less phenols and more 'cleanliness' and, why not, more of the promised mango and passionfruit fragrance. Another half-hearted attempt at greatness - but spare the rod and spoil the child, and this is what you get: NEIPA influence as this is all the hype now, forced upon a very trivial Belgian blonde without any thorough understanding of how a fruited IPA works. Decent enough, but not much more than that - I wonder when BBP will finally learn how to achieve greatness by themselves without having to rely on the experience and knowledge of others. Maybe by putting a bit more effort in developing a successful recipe over time, rather than trying to please the craft beer hipsters with instant but superficially concocted novelties every other week? From a brewery vowing to react against Belgian (monk or lay) traditions, especially with this amount of experience, I expect a higher standard in materializing their ideas before throwing them on the unsuspecting average consumer. Point off for that.

Unclear, orange colored, small white soapy non lasting head. Aroma is of some malt, sweetish, mango and passion fruit dominate, bit sugar. Taste is medium+ sweet malt and sugar, strong mango and passion fruit, bit fruity acidity, light+ citric bitterness. Medium-light bodied, lively carbonation. (bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)

Bottle from Geers. Hazy amber colour, white foam. Nose of mango, lots of mango and passion fruit along with some caramel, dried fruit. Taste is sweet, light tart, fruity, refreshing. Some grassy bitterness. Not bad.

7 3 7 3 14 Bottle shared at Platypus After Tasting. Fairly hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma of green weeds, citrus, lemon drops and malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.