Hoeksch Amber

Bierbrouwerij Hoeksche Waard
Brewed at Brouwerij de Leckere
Style: Amber Ale
Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Red copper ale with a vinous aroma and scotch character. Sweet caramel in mouth with nice vinous taste, and nice coriander and hops. A bit light but good. May 1,2005 at 2nd KBC Festival, Den Bosch, NL.

Bottle 30cl. @ home.
Clear medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dusty, tart - sour, apple notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20081117]

Bottle, 5%. Hazy amber colour. The flavour has some cream, candylike notes. Must be candy notes from the hops. Not sweet as such. Strange, but OK.

30 cL bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small white head. Dry malty and yeasty phenolic aroma. Mild breadish malt flavoured with a light bitterness showing through into a light spiced note in the finish, hops it seems.

Courtesy of Fonefan. It’s dark amber and the head is OK. The aroma is very malty with notes of apple, dust and grain. The flavour has sweetness, a light sourness, notes of candy sugar, grain, citrus and the mouthfeel is kind of hard.

Bottled. Herbal hoppy aroma, bit grainy as well. Amber color, small beige head, fair lace. Sweet, malty, light herbal, soft, little sticky.

Amber color, hazy. A touch of grassy hops and a hint of caramel in the aroma. Caramelly flavor, malty but not too sweet. Thin to medium bodied, watery texture. Hint of pear. Well brewed and suitable as a session beer.

Tap, Burg Bierfeest. Hazy amber color, medium head. Aroma of caramel malt, hop, bit fruity. Taste is bit sweet, caramel malty, nice bitter. Nice balance.

UPDATED: AUG 5, 2006 Sweet caramel-malty nose. Very much caramel.. Clear, amber coloured with an off-white, thin head. Taste is sweet caramelly, bit artificial, bit spicy with some fruits. Quite sticky.
(Old rating 2.7) On tap, Burg Bierfeest. Much better this way. Good hopbitter finish, well balanced, well brewed.

Clear orange-red to amber; virtually no head. Cookies nose, sweet, ambrée malt and some alcohol. Banana ester as well, but faint. Sweet, perfumed taste, toilet-soap like, maybe some coriander, ending dull-sweet. Slick, oily but not heavy. Well. It’s OK, but where’s the drive a microbrew ought to have?