5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Amber colour, clear body. Non-homogeneous, slightly brownish head. Little bit lacing. Fruity - citric aroma. The flavour starts bittery and gets bitter. Little bit salty too.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2004
at 14:06
5.4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pale blond colour, with white head. Lots of bubbles. Palm-like flavour: hoppy. Dito flavour: quite bitter.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2004
at 15:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Dark amber colour with a small bubbles, brownish head. Bitter yeast and alocoholic aroma. The flavour starts bittery and ends bitter. A very long-lasting bitter aftertaste.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2003
at 12:10
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg
Beautiful ruby color. Drinkable ordinary Belgian Strong Ale, but with some pine needles and plastic…
Beautiful ruby color. Drinkable ordinary Belgian Strong Ale, but with some pine needles and plastic…
Tried
on 30 Nov 2003
at 07:53
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear sparkling yellow color, nice medium creamy head, splendid appearance. Aroma is spicy of coriander. Bit sweet taste for a tripel, but nicely balanced. Very drinkable triple indeed.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2003
at 14:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A brown beer with a beutiful but disappearing head. The aroma is sweet and fruity. The flavor is sweet and malty with strong notes of cinnamon. It end on a nice bitterness. An good Christmas beer.
Tried
on 08 Nov 2003
at 05:31
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Very pale amber, crystal-clear; no head, just little white rim - for De Koninck! First impression of rotting vegetables, wocked in sesame/soy oil. Sesame nose, plus a bit of caramel keeps hanging around. Damn! That sesame oil is back in the taste! Plus liquorice and roasted peanuts this time, dissolved in cooking brandy. Quite alcoholic. Body seems thinner than it is. Nice warming throatfeel. My God, what have they done?? The makers of the Beer I used to measure all beers with! O tempora, o mores - I left Antwerpen for one year, and this is the result? New rating 30/03/05 at the brewery. Two different versions, 75cl unpasteurised and 33cl pasteurised Clear pure copper colour, yellow-pink (melon) coloured head. Vegetable nose, again with an oily component, but NOT sesame - and the veggies weren’t rotting this time; sweet malts taste, milky. Fruity, yeasty esters ending in a just sourish edge. Thick, nearly chewt MF, very sweet and un-dry for a tripel, oily. No doubt the effect of the cane-sugar. Please try the 3/4l bottles if you can find them - much better.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Oct 2003
at 14:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear golden yellow color, short head. Aroma is hoppy, floral and grassy. Soft taste, bit spicy, some bitterness.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2003
at 12:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Gold-amberish; thin white dense head, fast gone. Nose of freshly cut melon, malt, grassy and some Thai herb. Very malty taste; fine bitter finish (Saazhops obviously). Lemony aroma retronasal, some grapefruit and maybe some melon again. Light to medium-bodied. Long fine bitter aftertaste. Quite fruity (yeast?), surprisingly original. Is this a new beer, will De Koninck tripel be a new beer? Antoon, Cuvée and Begyn are gone anyway. The brewery says yes, of course, I was more sceptical, but I'm beginning to believe them. But will it save De Koninck from the plummeting sales of amber ale?
Tried
on 26 Jun 2003
at 13:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Palm-like beer. Sweet-bitter aroma and flvour. Blond body, white head. I thougth this was going to be a commercial beer, but it pleased me.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2003
at 10:33