Winterkoninkske Grand Cru
Brouwerij Kerkom in Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Winter|
Score
7.54
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Some dark plum and light smoke. Floral aromas. Thick consistency. Finishes sweet. Light caramel, perhaps a little too boozy and syrupy for my liking. Bottle pour from 2010 at Churchkeys 5th anniversary.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750 ml bottle into tulip glass, 2011 vintage bottling. Pours fairly pitch black color with a small fairly dense tan head with solid retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Slight spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big raisin, prune, blackberry, date, fig, molasses, licorice, red wine, dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, dark bread, brown sugar, black pepper, and roast/yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and fruity/spicy yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big raisin, prune, blackberry, date, fig, molasses, licorice, red wine, dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, dark bread, brown sugar, black pepper, and roast/yeast earthiness. Fair amount of roasted bitterness/earthy yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of raisin, prune, blackberry, date, fig, red wine, dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, dark bread, pepper, and roast/yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity and robustness of dark/roast/bready malt and fruity/spicy yeast flavors; with a great malt/yeast flavor balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a smooth, fairly slick, and slightly syrupy/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warming present after the finish. Overall this is an incredible Belgian strong dark ale. All around awesome complexity and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and fruity/spicy yeast flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the huge ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
SVD (7137) reviewed Winterkoninkske Grand Cru from Brouwerij Kerkom 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
2012 On bottle, 75CL Bottle at home, Black beer with a small head, aroma is malts, coffee. Taste is coffee, dark chocolate, sweet, fruit, Liquorice (confectionery), WOW, this beer is actually amazing ... Didnt expect it
Benzai (24515) reviewed Winterkoninkske Grand Cru from Brouwerij Kerkom 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled @ Kerstbierfestival Essen 2013. Opaque black color, small light brown head. Smell and taste malts, lightly roasted malts, lightly leaves. Medium to full body, medium carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Clear brown colour, beige head. Aroma of caramel, alcohol, red fruit, light chocolate. Sweet flavour, caramel, cacao, quite cloying. Sweet finish, alcohol and chocolate liquor.
(from 75cL bottle @ home)
77ships (14506) reviewed Winterkoninkske Grand Cru from Brouwerij Kerkom 12 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Thx! to Kraddel & Kogymo. 75 cl. bottle split by 2. American export version labelled as “Bink Grand Cru”. Very likely a vintage but an unknown one. Pours black with a small but small mocha head. Nose carries a light oxidation note but absolutely nothing is off here, boozy in a highly enjoyable way with lots of chocolate, very thick malts, syrup, light dark wood, molasses, light dark nuts, faint liquorish, very concentrated fruits, this feels almost BA, very nice. Taste is carries also a light a light oxidation note but nothing off here either, very heavy in a great way, lots of malt, liquorish (light), very think malt, wood, boozy in a phenomenal & complementary way, touch molasses, very thick, concentrate of dark dried fruits, faint caramel & black chocolate, light liquorish, brown sugar, faint yeast. Very thick & low carb. This is impeccable in every way & can easily stand ground with the best. A revelation here.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours dark mahogany into a tulip. Mocha head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Dark caramel and toasted nut aromas. Medium bodied with hot chocolate syrup, anise and sweet caramel. Hot, lasting earthy pit fruit finish.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Winterkoninkske Grand Cru from Brouwerij Kerkom 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
ZEBF13 smell is bourbon-ish, oaky low carbo. bitter, complex, sour touch, sweet, aftertaste is more of the same, very bitter. way better, extremely way better than the regular one
saxo (29721) reviewed Winterkoninkske Grand Cru from Brouwerij Kerkom 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Nice head with excellent duration. Color is dark brown. Aroma and taste are rich fruits, nuts, caramel, malt, hops and alcohol.