Royale
Brouwerij Palm in Steenhuffel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
5.90
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This ale-type beer was created for PALM brewer Alfred Van Roy’s 90th birthday. The ultimate expression of his passion for the distinct fermentation fruitiness of his personally selected PALM yeasts. A real royal treat of a beer. Its appearance is copper-coloured, with a rich, white head which clings to the glass. The aroma is reminiscent of banana; the flavour has bite with a great deal of body. The beer is slightly sweet due to the alcohol, but is nevertheless somewhat bitter and fruity too. Re-fermentation gives the beer a pleasant, dry aftertaste.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Yellow-orange, amber shine, totally clear. Medium-thick, creamy white head, slowly fading. Nose gives a bit of candi sugar, some hops, something piney as well. Reasonably fresh-smelling. Sweet-bitter taste, liquorice. Retronasal some fine hops, and more sweetness, brandy-like. Only medium-bodied. Liquorice gives 'false' body-impression. Alcohol is very much there, quite dry. Mitigated feelings. I don't like liquorice-flavour. Apart from that, the beer has its points. "Royal" is brewed for the 90th birthday of Palms' family godfather. It is not unlike the defunct Aerts spéciale, once by the same brewery. The name isn't new either. Roy-ale used to be the spéciale Belge from Van Roy brewery at Wieze. "Spéciale Belge" is the old Belgian name for the Belgian version of pale ale.
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from Can
on 26 May 2003
at 12:05