Bottled at Cambrinus. Bright, fruity nose, minerals, citrus, apple, sugar. Medium gold, clear, tall head. Bubbly. Fruity flavor, peaches, honey, orange. Crisp finish.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Jilles / Jack Burgers Jack Premium Lager (by Fort Lapin):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 9/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5

6/VII/18 - 33cl bottle @ Jack Burgers (Gent) - BB: 26/IV/19 (2018-810)

Clear pale blond beer, small creamy aery white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: malty, bit sourish impression, funky yeast, bit metallic, grains. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet, malty, some banana, vanilla touch. Aftertaste: bit malty, sugary, sweet touch.

Fort Lapin’s winter ale, steinie bottle from ‘t Koelschip in Ostend. Papery lacing, thick and stable but irregular, pale yellowish white head on a very dark burgundy-hued hazy bronze beer, murky with sediment. Aroma of moldy old nut shells, medlar, coffee grounds, pear, nutmeg, cloves and even medicinal phenols, anise, roasted chicory, old brown bread, ‘jenever’, white pepper, ginger powder, damp earth, forest floor. Restrainedly sweetish onset, dried prune, pear and medlar notes with a deeper, infection-induced sourish undercurrent that stretches over the palate; medium carb, bready and toasty malt body, bitterish in the tail with this bitterness accentuated by a very high dosage of unpleasant, clove-, nutmeg- and eventually medicinally coloured phenols as well as actual spiciness (coriander seed, clove, ginger) that adds little of the normal ethereal retronasal qualities but a lot of rather harsh spicy wryness, which is then in turn made more wry by ‘jenever’-like booze; meanwhile a very earthy, ‘dirty’, powdery, muddy yeast effect forms. I get the intention here, this is another Scotch-based, heavily spiced, warming strong Belgian style Christmas beer, but refermentation clearly went not all too well here and I suspect some or other infection entered the bottle as well, with both factors creating a lot of wryness and dirtiness which this beer simply cannot support. Below par even for this brewery.

A “city beer” for Bruges, brewed by one of the city’s local breweries; steinie bottle from Koelschip in Ostend. Medium strong gusher, but more or less manageable. Initially towering high, snow white, irregularly shaped head which quickly collapses to an equally irregular, open moussy ring, on a hazy straw-yellow blonde beer with vague khaki tinge. Aroma delivers what the name promises: lots of actual pineapple, like pineapple juice from a carton or even pineapple slices from a can with syrup, next to Turkish delight, ‘meloenjenever’, white bread dough, apple, chewing gum and bath foam impressions – in all, unusual, but not unpleasant. Sweet onset with crisp souring edges – again, very ‘genuine’ pineapple juice effect, partially covering up banana (even slight bubblegum) and peach notes from the esters; medium carb, soft and notably soapy, wheaty body, bready and doughy but supple and lean. The (sweetened but convincing) pineapple juice flavour remains, while the finish becomes quite chalky, ending with a late, brief dash of leafy hop bitterishness. Smells, looks and tastes like a witbier with sweetened pineapple juice added to it – which is probably not that far from the truth – but, contrary to many other ‘fruit witbiers’ by larger producers, a specific subtype of sweet fruit beers that gained a lot of local popularity some fifteen years ago but has now luckily passed its commercial prime, this is still ‘beery’ and not the ridiculous and sickly sweet soda pop horror we got from e.g. Haacht (Mystic) and Huyghe (Floris). For that reason alone, I cannot but grant it a decent score; I can enjoy this, though probably not for more than one time, and admittedly you will personally have to like the aroma and taste of pineapple juice – if this were apple juice, for example, I probably wouldn’t have liked it as much.

Bottle. Pours an amber color with a small off-whiter head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty caramel aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty caramel finish.

hazy golden colour, large, dense, though not too stable white head; aroma of citrusy-fruity-floral notes with some banana; taste is more or less the same with some spiciness and yeasty-white wine-like notes; really enjoyable and easy to drink Belgian ale; considerably underrated