Belgian Amber

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.

I was wary of this beer for a couple of reasons... This beer's name and label remind me of of all the sketchy vodka I saw in Eastern Germany. These cheap bottles of vodka were named after historical figures like Putin, Gorbachev and Stalin. These products had nothing to do with their namesake, it was just a marketing ploy to cash in on the name recognition... it struck me as being super tacky. When I first saw this bottle of Bruegel Amber Ale with Pieter Bruegel's Peasant Dance slapped on the side of it I couldn't help but Gorbachev Vodka with a birthmark logo on the bottle...