De Koninck Blond
3.1
170 reviews
Antwerpen, Belgium
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Bottle 33cl. A clear golden colour with a medium high, white head. An aroma of melt, fruit, yeast and spice. The taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. A medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation and a long light bitter finish.
Pours slightly hazy blonde color with medium head and light lacing. Aromas of yeast and citrus. Tastes slightly sweet and has a mild hop bitterness. Light bodied and carbonated.
Too much co2 bubbles in the mouthfeel, kinda ruins the taste. Decent color and smell.
Unclear orange gold color with a white head. Smell malts. Malts in the taste, don’t really like it. Kind of dry and not very good mouthfeel.
Bottle. Clear golden pour with an ok white head. Typical Blond Ale aroma with malts, honey and sweet notes. Same hints are in the taste. Decent Blond.
bottle@’t Waagstuk: clear golden yellow with a small white head, bit too heavy on the spices with a strong presence of yeast, especially in the nose, tastes heavy of barnyard yeast, fruits; touch citric, medium body, touch above medium carbonation, not a big fan of this one
On tap in Paris. A clear yellow beer with good head. Smell is malty and fruity. Aroma is very nice on malt, caramel, vanilla and fruity on cassis. Quite creamy, very interesting beer. Very refreshing with good smooth fruity notes.
330 ml bottle a golden yellow colored beer with a white head aroma malts caramel some bitter taste malts water some fruits and bitter
Bottle. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty aroma. Fruity malty yeasty flavor with some weak hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty yeasty finish.
330ml bottle. Clear orangey gold with a decent white head. Nose of light malts and honey with hints of citrus hops. Flavour is restrained sweet golden malts with a subtle alcoholic finish. Nice dry hop finish with a lowish bitterness. Medium-light bodied for the style with a slick texture. Sessionable. Decent but certainly not the most complex Belgian Ale you will ever taste.
Pours clear golden with small mostly disappearing white head. Aroma is sweet, fruity and yeasty. Flavour is fruity, lightly malty, caramel with light spice (coriander). Medium body and soft carbonation, Finish is dry and refreshing with good hop bitterness. A decent, well balanced belgian ale.
Bottle. Darker yellow; lightly orange. Small head, that won’t hold long enough for me. Smell of spices, tabacco and fruit. Lots of a weird tabacco smell. Same with the taste, more of a beer for smokers i think... And I stopped smoking almost 2 years ago...
Sample at tasting. Fairly clear golden pour with a fluffy white head that lasts. Spicy, yeasty nose with a hint of caramel-like sweetness. Flavour is pretty much the same, a bit more barnyard funkiness and more sweetness towards the end. Dry, spicy mouthfeel with moderate carbonation and a long dry finish. A fairly bland example of the style, which isn’t one of my favourites anyway.
On draft at Cafe Gollem. Gold in colour with medium carbonation. Aromas are of sweetish pale malts, and dried orchard fruit. Pale malts dominate the palate, along with elements of butter caramels, more dried fruit, and mild pepper. Medium to light bodied. Average and inoffensive, perhaps even a tad bland.
Draught into a pint-glass. Pours dark golden with finger-deep head that diminished. Malt and hops in the aroma, tough a bit too metallic on the tongue. Not the worst, but not too memorable either.
Golden. Floral aroma - a bit of caramel too. Refreshing and harmless flavours: orange, biscuits and flowers.
Draught at Quinten Matsijs, Antwerpen, Belgium. Clear golden colour with white medium-size head. Fruity, hoppy and spicy aroma. Lots of spices in flavour. Some alcohol too. Pretty good.
A: Poured similar to the DK Amber: small, white head, and a slightly hazy body. Nice dark golden color, with some light particles floating about.
S: Have yet to be impressed by the aroma of a De Koninck beer. Here, light traces of yeast are detectable, and some alcohol as well. Is that butter I smell as well?
T: Yep, maybe that was butter... I can taste it as well. Slight bready taste as well, and a very light presence of alcohol in the finish. Goes down great, though, and opens up and improves as it warms up a bit.
M: Nice, medium body and creamy texture, with a perfect amount of carbonation.
D: Not exactly boiling over with flavor or personality, but this one is a very nice-drinking beer, and I enjoyed it a little more than the DK Amber. I wouldn’t be opposed to drinking this again at all.
Bottle. Pours a golden body with a white head. Sweet floral notes, dried fruit with a dusty earthy finish. Light caramel and spices. Decent.
Bottle. Frothy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Fruity notes and very week licorice notes. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. Fresh but not very great.
Clear golden with a medium white head. Sweet aroma with fruity and yeasty notes. Flavour was fruity with malt, caramel and yeasty notes.
Light yellow gold brew that produced a small ammount of head that retained its form the entire duration of the beer. Tiny floaties too. Aroma came across quite mild and pleasant aside from the obvious alcoholly smell which suprised me for such a mild beer; light yeast, banana and oranges. Taste was dissapointing with its sweet syrupy honey and banana flavour that I didn’t really enjoy. Bored my mouth with its slight sour bitterness and empty dull finish. I was glad when my glass was empty.
Bottle: Clear, golden, visible carbonation, small stable white layer; lemony-fruity nose with a faint papery touch; moderate sweet-bitter flavour, combined with a subtle acidity; light to moderate sweetish-fruity finish with a balancing bitterness in the aftertaste. Nice and easy.........
33cl bottle, 6% at home.
clear orange , small white head.
slightly fruiy, slight spices. typical belg. blonde aroma. faint yellow fruits.
flavor is faint yellow fruits, alc, a bit worse flavor than aroma. alc too dominant, and ends bitter in a weird way.
gold blond coloured sparkling body with a white head a fruity malty aroma a malty fruity spicy sweet taste with a spicy bitter finish
Clear goldblond coloured beer with sall white head and few carbonation. Spicy bit malty aroma. Full palate Finish is bitter and sweet.
330 ml bottle from an LCBO gift pack. pours blonde with a small white head. aroma of sweet belgian candied sugar with some yeast. the flavour is palatable but not overly good. sweet with some yeasty elements. very boring and dull. no major flaws except for a lack of what make a belgian ale good.
330ml Bottle from the LCBO as part of a De Koninck Sampler pack
The aroma is sweet and kind of medicinal (not sure why I like that in a beer?)
Pours a light amber with no head or lacing
The taste is sweet honey and cloves high carbonation
This is a good beer but not as good as the amber or triple
Bottle @ The Dovetail, London.
Pours clear golden with a small, frothy, off-white head. Aroma has yeast, light butter. Fine carbonation, okay mouthfeel. Flavour has a touch of metal, light yeast, subdued oranges. Okay, malty sweet finish.
33cl, from Geers Oostakker, not complex, not balanced, clear, small head, nothing special, needs to be revised