De Koninck

Brewed by Brouwerij De Koninck
Style: Belgian Ale
Antwerpen, Belgium

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.