De Koninck Amber - Brouwerij De Koninck, Antwerp
Style:
Belgian Amber
Serving Type:
Bottle
Alcohol by Volume:
5.2%
Aroma:
Fresh sour cherries and lightly toasted malt
Appearance:
Clear copper body with a miniscule white head
Flavor:
Dry malt flavor but still sweet and a little yeasty. Finish rather dry, not terribly bitter
Mouthfeel:
Light bodied and even thin at times
This beer showed up a couple weeks ago as part of a mixed case of bottles. The 330ml bottles are pretty low key, they've got simple red and green labels that are pretty bland. I opened a bottle of this beer because I felt like drinking something Belgian... I was in the mood for something yeasty, maybe sour or a little tart. What I got when I poured this bottle of De Koninck was a dry and malty Belgian Amber. Not exactly what I was expecting, but I wasn't disappointed... yet.
De Koninck Amber is a clear copper bodied beer with practically no head. The aroma coming off of this beer is bready and a little sweet. The grainy component is accompanied by what smells like fresh cherries. Not a bad start, but the flavor doesn't exactly match up... This beer has plenty of that dry malt and grain flavor but lacks the sweet/tart cherry flavor that hits your nose. There isn't much more to this beer other than malted barley, it's a pretty one sided beer. That simplicity isn't helped by the thin body and lack of much texture.
For a Belgian Amber, the flavor in this beer isn't bad... it's just boring. At 5.2% ABV this would make a decent session beer if you're a fan of dry malt flavor. If not, you can safely pass this one up
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