De Koninck

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

RE-rate:Love this stuff, spicy, peppery, with a dry yeast character, on the drier side of the scale, silkTork is totally right, this stuff grows on you, bigtime, and i reckon its great from the bottle, aswell as the tap, very Belgian. Makes me want to go back to Antwerp.

clear amber colour, no head, floral aroma, malty, tart, too much carbonation, bitter and dry - aggressive and forgettable

11.2oz bottle–pours a rich foamy off white head and amber color. Aroma is medium malt-slight peat, yeast-clove/spice, fruit. Taste is spice hops (saaz) overrides the medium malt-slight peat/slight caramel and yeast, then finishes thin. Easy drinking. OK carbonation.

Amber colour with a beige head. Malty aroma with some caramel sweetness. malty flavor with a light bitterness.

(draught) Totally clear amber-fox. Thick yellowish head, lacey. Nose of ambrée malts, some sugar and hops, CO2 is even obvious in the nose. A bit of burned rubber (sulphur). Aroma as freshly gristed malt. Taste, IMO, the ideal balance between sweet and bitter from noble hops. CO2 gives an ever so slight sourish hint. Biscuit (cookies) flavour. Very fresh De Koninck has a flavour as from freshly mown grass. Light-bodied. Well saturated, not fizzy. Refreshing. In the aftertaste, all tastes struggle and the hopbitterness lasts. NEVER confound a draught ‘bolleke’ with the bottled product. Filtered, but not pasteurised, this is a mega-difference. NEVER visit Antwerpen without drinking one. Not all pubs serve it equally well, though. To an Antwerpener, this is the standard (=/ the best beer!) by which all other beers are measured.

Bottled, Pasteurised. Deep Amber beer with fluffy lasting white head. Little nose initially, but a spicy, bananaish flavour comes though. There is a malty background and a dry finish, but overall a little thin on flavour.

Very mild and smooth. It is definatley drinkable and classic but I would never buy a whole case of this.

Pours copper with a thin white head. Smells earthy and dry. Tastes sweet and has hints of wildflowers. Filtered to death. A shadow of what this once was.