De Koninck Winterkoninck

Brewed by Brouwerij De Koninck (Duvel-Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Ale
Antwerpen, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

In bottle at home. Pours a deep golden amber colour with a fair beige head. Aroma of biscuity malt, caramel, yeast and alcohol. Similar flavours with some toffee and fairly present alcohol again. Mild carbonation and an oily mouth-feel.

Bouteille de 33cl. Couleur rouge - ambrée,mousse correcte mais peu de tenue. Arômes fruités, légèrement boisés et un léger arrière goût d’alcool fort. Originale et pas ininterressante. Trouvée à Vanuxeem - Ploegstaert.

Tap at Tap East, Stratford, London. Pours a little on the darker side of amber with a thin off-white head. The aroma is a little sour cherry and a hint of caramel. Coriander seed orangeness is also in there. Drying and a little oily on the palate. Taste is of subtle sour cherry, orange, apricot, and a little musty wet wood. There is a dry sour irange aftertaste.

Keg at North Bar, Leeds. Pours an exciting red colour, virtually no head. Aroma is a little caramel, Belgian least funk. Taste is hard to pin down, definite, nice Belgian yeast character. Caramel tones and a little spice also present. Intriguing and all the better for it. Nice long finish, a little sticky. It’s a good ’un.

33cl bottle. Poured dark amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet fruity, some yeasty notes as well as weak hoppyness. Flavor is yeast, fruit and some herbal notes. Medium bodied, low carbonation. Average. Probably will not try again.

Bottled: Clear orange-red beer with a huge, but quickly diminishing tan head. Aroma is malty and fruity with notes of caramel and biscuits and hints of dried fruits. Taste is dominated by malty caramel-flavors nicely balanced by a nondescript but prominent bitterness. Very drinkable yet rather mediocre x-mas/winter beer.

Dark red color with fine light brow head. Aroma of caramel. Flavor is malty with caramel.

If you ever had a normal De Koninck, well it’s just dubble plavor. It’s actually a Belgian Pale Ale, banana flavor, slight hoppy with a nice caramel after tast. Very easy drinkable.