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Hector Amber

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Hector Amber

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A Belgian Strong Ale formerly brewed by
De Graal

Brakel, Belgium

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173.45/5.03.39/5.07.7%49.6Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Non-filtered, top-fermented amber coloured beer with refermentation in the bottle. Hector Amber is a well hopped beer with a light herbal flavour. Serve at ca. 12°C in a tulip shaped glass. With taste evolution.

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 TBone (5116), Pori, Finland
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/515/20
Mar 30, 2007  
Bottled (Bottled 07/2006)
Amber color, big cloudy white head. Fruits, metal, yeast and alcohol in the aroma. Medium-bodied, malty, good balanced mouthfeel. Crisp hoppy and alcoholic flavor (in a good way). Although this is named as "amber", it is quite tripel-like. Enjoyable, although not very complex.


 bierkoning (4933), La Tropica, Netherlands
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Dec 7, 2005  
Orange brown color. Nutmeg and cinnamon in the aroma. Malty spicy flavor with nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger. Medium bodied. Well made, but not exactly my taste.


 fonefan (4871), Ulfborg, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Jul 1, 2007  
Bottle. Unclear medium amber color with a average to large frothy / creamy good lacing fully lasting off-white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, grass, cardboard, some sojasauce / sesame oil alike notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, textureis oily, carbonation is soft.


 JorisPPattyn (4500), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Apr 21, 2005  
Fully hazy dark-amber with olive shine; huge pink-yellow head, very dense leaving some lace. Faint roasted coffee nose, vegetable background. Burnt-caramel coffee taste with an obvious spicey finish. After some time, there’s a marked sojasauce/sesame oil flavour. Bit burning MF, spice-enhanced it would seem; well bodied with mild alcoholburn. Original & quaint. The proof would be in the ageing. Somehow this keeps reminding me the Steedje beers. And those where dangerous to keep - mostly. Sounds, sorry, tastes familiar...


 chris_o (4409), London, Greater London, England
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Nov 4, 2007  
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.



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