De Koninck

Bottle. A: Poured with a small, off-white head that diminished very quickly. Body is amber-colored and slightly hazy, with some sediment floating around. Nothing exemplary, to say the least. S: Again, nothing to blow my mind. I can smell traces of malt and yeast, but they’re fairly weak. T: Improving slightly on the look and aroma, it begins lightly malty and sweet. Slight presence of bready taste, and then it actually finishes with a little bitterness. M: Nice on the palate... light-bodied, but slightly creamy texture to it, with lively carbonation. D: An easy-drinking beer that isn’t anything special, especially for a Belgium ale. My first beer of this style, however, so not sure how it compares to other Flanders Reds. Still, definitely an agreeable beer.

Good amber colour. Thin white lace. Refreshing beer with a rich malt aroma. Quite fruity. Great bitterness with lovely malt finish.

0.3l - Gold color, small off-white head, sour and hops on nose. Not much of a palate, maybe some malt. Forgettable.

Overall Impression: Pretty standard of the style, nice beer, but not something you would want to go out of your way for. Overall, it is a nice example of the sweet and yeasty beer it is trying to be, but doesn’t go much beyond there...

Sampled from a friend’s bottle at the Brickskeller in DC. Somewhat standard Belgian ale. Amber in color with a white head. Pretty good aroma of bready malt, yeast, and some dark fruit. Flavor is bready, somewhat grainy malt with a little caramel, yeast, and raisin. Palate medium. Not too exciting overall.

Enjoyed from an 11.2oz bottle in a pub glass. The beer pours a medium amber color, with a white head that fairly quickly falls away. The nose has a nice range of complexity, showing at first some pilsner-derived grainyness/sweetness, followed by a nice, if, subtle caramel note, and finished by some yeast-derived esters. The palate is simple, straightforward, and pleasant. Malt and yeast dominate, but create a nice malange of flavors, raning from light caramel to subtle fruits. Overall, not as good as I was expecting, but it is easy to understand why this is the everyday beer of drinkers in Antwerp.

Nice, not too heavy but beautifully rounded. Nice and foamy with a good taste. One of the better %5 beers

Plain taste plain smell nothing special very boring typed on BlackBerry so not much boring