Karakter
Hertog Jan (Arcense Bierbrouwerij) in Arcen, Limburg, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.04
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Hertog Jan Karakter is a true Dutch ale, made from the special Hertog Jan malts. Hertog Jan malts, a carefully selected prestige malt, consists of four different malts. This gives the beer a fruity taste with adult hits of bitter. Besides this, Hertog Jan Karakter has the full and warm color of copper.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
An amber beer with a nice though disappearing beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, while the flavor is sweet and quite hoppy dry.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2004
at 11:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
The first whif was nice, raisiny and port aroma, but then it settles into a less interresting sherrylike note. Pale red browm, head is quickly gone, low carbonation. Sweet malty base, alcoholic sherry notes on top, some nuts and marzipan. A bit too too much booze. Body is rather weak, oily mouthfeel, very slight almond aftertaste.
Tried
on 17 Oct 2004
at 14:41
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark-red tinted chestnut, clear; slim foxy-coloured head, dwindling. Malty nose, glue & solvent, bit of hazelnuts’ aroma, sweet. Taste malty again, but with an overpowering initial bitter almonds flavour - faawggh! - shortlived, however, as it gets then both thin and sweet. Somehow this tastes exactly as watered-down high-gravity beer. I detect some salinity as well. Quite heavily carbonated, watery texture, light. "Uitverkoren": preferred, elected, it says. They sure didn’t ask for my opinion... then again, I never tried the ’other one’.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2004
at 14:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottled. Clear ruby. Aroma of toffe and molasses. Fruity and fairly sweet. Medium bodied. Somewhat vinous. Salty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2004
at 12:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear brown color, medium off-white head. Aroma of caramel malts, some sweetness, molasses is a thing i hear a lot when drinking this kind of beer. Taste is sweet caramel malty, not very complex. Sticky palate.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2004
at 13:36