Hector Amber

Formerly brewed at De Graal
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Brakel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours a cloudy amber with floating impurities and a small off-white head. Swet aroma of fruit, caramel and oxidized malts. No real bitterness. 141109

Hazy orange with a tiny off white head. Sweet malty aroma with fruity and caramel notes. Sweet yeasty flavour with fruity, malty and caramelish notes. Sweet finish with warming alcohol.

Bottle, 7.7%. Mild caramelly aroma. Cloudy brown colour. Small tan head. The flavour is slightly vinous, has a little caramel and a faint roasted hint. Tastes like a Dunkelweizen until the alcohol kicks in in the finish.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small and off-white head. Aroma is flat malty and slight caramelish and light yeasty. Sweet malty, flat and bit oxidised though. Dry phenolic flavoured. Bitter and dry finish. Ends slight spiced too.

Amber coloured beer with no carbonation and a small off-white head. Sweet malty aroma with touches of madeirisation. Full palate. Finish is bitter, alcoholic yeasty, little roasted caramel touches. 3 year old version, still very good.

Amber colored pour with medium sized head. Sweet, fruity aroma with a spicy malts, slightly bitter finish.

Bottle, at ZBF 2006. Hazy bronze, thin off white head and gentle condition. Yeasty sweet and earthy roasted notes in the nose, pleasantly insistent but restrained sweet yeast and chocolate in the mouth with some gentle roast barley and a suggestion of coconut. Lingering dry finish tinged with coffee, chocolate and coconut.

Bottle, at Zythos, March 2006. To be honest, this didn’t make much of an impression on me. Mid amber colour. The usual spicy, yeasty aroma. Some fruity caramel. Touch of hops. Quite mellow - smoother than the Tripel tasted at the same time. Resudual sweetness in the aftertaste. Decent but unspectacular.

UPDATED: AUG 9, 2007 Bottle at Hapje Tapje, Leuven 2007. Very similar to the triple except the color. I think they used the same recepy and added caramel for the color. The caramel is the only difference I taste compared to the tripel, but I have to admit that tasting conditions were not so good on a crowded "Old Market".

UPDATED: AUG 7, 2007 Bottle, 33 cl. (@ home bought by Willems) Very cloudy dark amber color, with large whitehead. Aroma yeasty, caramel, hops. Medium to full body. Tatse = not so different as the tripel, hops, bitterness, good in balance, caramel malts, a bit sweet, little spices, dry finisch. GOOD.