Pours with a small head and a very muddled, hazy-of-sun on a cloudy day, yellow. It’s a yellow that does not glow or shine but as if mud became the color yellow, cannot see through the beer. Aroma is present with light burnt malt, light liquor candy, a muddy sweetness, and faint lemon citrus. Some very faint wild/tart aspect. Taste is light fruit and citrus with the aftertaste burnt malt and faint cardboard. I want to talk about the label a bit, first of all what’s up with the bland design, I really thought this was an old bottle, at least 10 years and was surprised to see the freshness date. And what is a "K-Star" and what do they mean by "old style." Then, it says high fermentation, well if they mean temperature, well there are not any characteristics of that. If I were rating the label I would 11.2oz bottle BB 2/18/2008, De Koningshoeven small goblet glass.

Bottle: Poured a golden bubbly color with white creamy foam head. aroma is a fruit almost apples and pineapples hint. Taste is a mild to a bit sour fruit with lots of water and carbonation.

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a white head. Sweet malty fruity spicy aroma. Sweet malty fruity and yeasty flavor. Sweet malty spicy and slightly yeasty finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Bottle. Light malty heavy hopy fantastic hopy aroma. Loads of flowers. Frothy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light sweet and moderate bitter flavor. Notes of honey. Average finish. Creamy palate. I really like this.

33cl bottle from Noel Cuveliers. Gold, thick off whtie head. Plain Belgian blond. Over carbonated, metallic. Some yeast, some fruit, bit dull.

Bottled. Sparkling, golden beer with an off-white head. Pleasant, sweet, quite weak aroma with cellar-notes. The flavor has some acidity with sweetness and cellar/yeast-notes. Medium body with some fizzyness. (060328)

A hazy orange beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of spices and yeast. The flavor is sweet malt with primary notes of yeast, leading to a dry end.

Bottled. Apricotty orange colour, mediumsized foamy white head. Bitter fruity aroma. Bitter fruity flavour with vegetably hints. Wellbalanced. Otherwise nice but the flavour is the weak link here...

(Bottle 25 cl) Aged sample - vintage 1988. 5% ABV in this version. Dark amber, absolutely no head and very low in carbonation. Very soft mouthfeel but very full still. Notes of both nuts and coffee - weird combination. Spicy - but again - soft. I reckon I should try this fresh one day, this sample was obviously too old. 070398

Bottlled (BB 01/2007)
Hazy orange color, small white head. Dry hoppy, horse blanket aroma, underlying some sweetness. Not very strong but some "Orval-character". Light-bodied, grassy and citrusy, but quite watery - weak malt profile. Bitterish aftertaste.