Fort Lapin Rouge
Fort Lapin

 

Minimal info on the lable, note it's bottle-conditioned. 33Cl BB: ? Can't find it anywhere on the packaging, but it's a recent purchase from big supplier 'Beer of Europe'.
Hard to find info on this beer, even on the brewers website. Google brings up suggestions it's an Abbey-Dubbel, and that a previous version of this beer containerd hibiscus flowers - maybe why it's listed here as 'Fruit and Field'. I'll see if it still does... [late ps. It appears not].

L- Vibrant orange-chestnut, very slight haze and pours with 2Cm super-fine pale tan head that's holding up well.
S- Smells like a Trappist beer, it has that spicey nose.
T- Mild coriander, some toast and malts, a tang of alcohol and then....? a spicy zing comes in at the finish, and I'm starting to wonder if it's chili! Ingredients list 'spices' but not which ones. Asked my wife who has a mega-radar of a nose/palate if she cld get it, she didn't get chili but agreed 'there's something there...'
M- It's got the flavour of a higher ABV% beer, say 8.5-9%, which is perhaps why at 6.5% the mouthfeel comes over as a bit light for it's flavour. Might be the first time I've reached that finding.
O- Unusual, hard to get info on and for me hard to figure out what's going on here. But meanwhile enjoy it, it's readily drinkable by those who are into the broad Abbey-style beers.