Subsidiaries
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 2
The aroma is malty and hoppy. The flavor is like a thin Palm Special and hence with notes of fruit. The body is thin. All in all - just another low alcohol beer.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2004
at 21:41
3.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 3
An unclear yellow beer with no head. The aroma is of citrus and yeast. The flavor is of grass and citrus and the body is thin. This is plainly put a boring beer.
Tried
on 29 Feb 2004
at 10:53
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Blond clear body, lots of very small bubbles in the body. White quite homogeneous head. Hoppy wheat aroma. The flavour starts sweet bittery and ends bittery. Very soft flavour. Very long bittery aftertaste.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2003
at 16:49
4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Beautiful gold color; nice perlage; big head. Bread aroma. Chewy body, a bit malty, but somehow cloying and missing a better hopping (aroma and bitterness).
Tried
on 25 Nov 2003
at 11:14
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Chestnut colour, fully clear; yellowish creamy head, collapsing, lacy. Bit of caramel, dark candi sugar; bit herbal, grassy, slightly hoppy aroma. Taste gives very faint liquorice, even fainter hops. Sweetish but balanced by the hoparoma, however faint. Also the taste of industrial ‘speculoos’, Belgian baking “speciality”. Watery and thinnish mouthfeel; sweet aftertaste. Boring, bland, and hardly different – not better – than not-so-Speciale Palm.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Nov 2003
at 14:57
4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Very pale yellow, good white head,but not very stable. Quite grainy nose, grassy and soap or herbal shampoo-like. Abysmal sweet taste, corn flakes, maize. Saaz would implement Bohemian pilsener – virtually no bitterness or even hoparoma. Light, watery mouthfeel, with just the maize giving something. This makes a great dash at being Belgium’s worst pils – if it weren’t for Jupiler.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2003
at 14:55
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Yellow-amber, clear. Broken white head, thin but lacey. Nose of worts/malt. Bananaester. Taste as of worts again; a bit bitterish as spiced with turmeric, caramel. Finish is maltdrink again, but especially characterised by a metaloxide taste. Bo-o-oring.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2003
at 04:47
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Clear yellow, short head. Hoppy, bit sour malty aroma. Quite typical blond ale taste. Bit dry palate.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2003
at 04:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Palm ongefilterd (=unfiltered) is the cask-ale version of Palm, AFAIK only available in two selected Palm-outlets: the Brouwershuis in Steenhuffel, next to the brewery, and the Grand Café Horta, Kipdorp in Antwerpen. Orange-foxy colour, totally hazy. Thick white, very regular head. Yeasty nose, very much like green beer, some malts. Bitterish, but with a creamy texture from the yeast. Banana, fruit and even some cloveflavours. Lots of malts underneath. Here is some likeness to British real ale: like a strong draught mild. Exactly right carbonation, not fizzy. Aftertaste gives some sweetness, not cloying. Theoretically this is the same beer as the ubiquitous "Palm(ke)". In reality - worlds apart. In character it stands between a strong cask mild, a Bavarian Hefeweizen and a Belgian speciale. BTW, the big difference with British cask ale, is that this is REALLY unfiltered. No isinglass or suchlike fishy thingies. We're Belgian after all.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2003
at 12:48
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.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2003
at 12:05