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De Koninck 3.1 654

De Koninck

Percentile
56
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij De Koninck
Style: Belgian Ale

Antwerpen, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6543.1/5.03.1/5.05%49.8Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Filtered, pasteurised and carbonated in bottles. Filtered and carbonated on tap in Antwerp.
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DaveBrewer (10), Florida, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Feb 5, 2010  
Something’s missing in this beer. It might be the sugars aren’t finished fermenting. It might be using Saaz hops in a belgian style beer. It tastes a watered down and bland. Nothing exceptional about this beer.


 dEnk (181), Den Haag, Netherlands
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/512/20
Feb 4, 2010  
Clear brown pour with orange glow, small head. Aroma of malts, some fruit and faint hops. Malty flavour, very faint bitter hops and some spices. Quite watery overall.


Abio (63), Belgium
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Jan 31, 2010  
When there is no "palm" served at the bar, mostly they offer this one in stead. The taste is similar but i still prefer Palm.


 jhumphries69 (755), Tyrone, Georgia, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/54/104/511/20
Jan 29, 2010  
33cl bottle. Pours deep orange/copper with dark gold and brown highlights and a thin off-white head. The aroma is fruity with pears, hints of white wine, and mild oxidation. Subtle notes of hops and yeast in the aroma, too. The flavor is dry and bready with hints of biscuity and cakey bread. There is a strong white wine character and a soft earthiness. Every bottle in this 4-pack tastes oxidized too (light cardboardy blandness). Finish is dry with perfumy esters and notes of white grapes - and a subtle tartness. The mouthfeel is crisp and medium bodied. Overall - maybe it could be a good session beer, but the oxidation in these samples is too distracting. The store I got them from is second to none, so it must have arrived there in this condition. I guess this beer simply doesn’t travel well or age gracefully. I’ve read others say this beer is supposed to be good, so maybe I need to try some in Belgium to see if it noticeably different/better fresh...


 Vaiz (314), Den Haag, Netherlands
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Jan 29, 2010  
Bottle at home. Pours a clear amber with a thin white head leaving some lacing. Aroma of pilsner malt and some old beer with a slight hint of fruits. Full bodied flavor of malts, subtle but well balanced. Not bad, but no cigar.


 gringo332 (269), Richardson, Texas, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/512/20
Jan 25, 2010  
Pours an extremely clear copper with thin off white head. Nose is red apple peels, candi sugar. Taste is mostly just a moderately sweeet malt base, kind of sugary, fair amount of floral hops. Slight spice from the hops, but mostly a big floral flavor with slight bitterness


ZTO (21), Alberta, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/513/20
Jan 19, 2010  
white, thick head that dissipates quick. light lacing. light copper colour. dark fruit aroma. unimpressive flavour. although easy to drink, i couldn’t get any strong flavours out of it. sweet malts. not much body.


 DruncanVeasey (2867), The Penguin’s Arms, Europe, Warwickshire, England
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Jan 12, 2010  
Draught in various bars around Antwerp. Red-orange glow with a thin fine head. Yeasty, sweet bready aroma with variable amounts of peardrop and praline (Westy?!). Cinnamon-dusted spice, honey on bread, peardrop frutiness, nice creamy bread linger. Bolied sweets, hint of dry yeasty bite. Peardrop esters highly pronounced in some samples, non-existent in others. Soft and slick like English bitter, but (discreetly) fruitier, with an obvious Belgian yeast influence. Huge improvement on the bottled version, no doubt. Sweet easy sessions.



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