Hertog Jan (Arcense Bierbrouwerij) Weizener

Weizener

 

Hertog Jan (Arcense Bierbrouwerij) in Arcen, Limburg, Netherlands 🇳🇱

  Weizen - Hefeweizen Regular
Score
6.30
ABV: 5.7% IBU: 16 Ticks: 116
Master brewer Gerard van den Broek made his ideal wheat beer: Hertog Jan Weizener. This willful wheat beer combines the best of a German weizen and Belgian witbier. The hop, malted wheat, fresh yeast, coriander and orange peel give it a full, fresh flavor and a deep gold color with a slight haze. The secondary fermentation on the bottle creates a fresher and richer taste and aroma.
 

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
0.3 l bottle from 'AH XL' (Nijmegen), best before May 2019. Hazy, golden amber with a large, dense, stable, white head. Sweetish, moderately fruity, gently yeasty, slightly spicy aroma of coriander, vanilla, banana, clove and hints of lemon peel. Moderately sweet, minimally bitter, gently yeasty, slightly spicy and a little fruity taste of banana, clove, coriander, vanilla and some lemon peel, followed by a short, just slightly bitter, yeasty and slightly spicy finish. Almost medium-bodied, very smooth and slightly creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Nice Wit!
Tried from Bottle on 11 Oct 2018 at 19:18

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Refrigerated 30 cL brown bottle, best by May 7, 2019, poured into a glass. Hazy light orange with small white head. Aroma is clove, medium body, lower carbonation. Taste is coriander and some clove.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Aug 2018 at 16:18

8/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of Weizener (2019) on 16 Aug 2019 at 19:59 - Score: 7
Tried from Draft on 24 Aug 2018 at 11:21

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
25 June 2018; at Anvers, Tilburg. Shared with Anke.
Pours hazy yellow with a lasting, small, foamy, white head; little lacing. The aroma contains banana, bubblegum, white bread & butter, clove, coriander, orange, wheat. Medium fruity sweet onset, hints of banana & butter even, a tad wheaty, then light spicy bitter with clove & coriander notes. Dryish, wheaty, spicy finish, lingering banana in the back. Light to medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation. Reminiscent of a 'Weizen', but as a clear infringement on the 'Reinheitsgebot', indeed, a Witbier. Refreshing.
Tried on 30 Jun 2018 at 09:12

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle at home. Hazy golden/pale amber with white head. Sweet malts, wet hay, banana, coriander and cloves. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. The most boring weizen-esque beer you can imagine, but it's too good to call it bad.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2018 at 21:10

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
Bottle from a Dutch supermarket, the ’Hefeweizen’ in this industrial and AB InBev-owned brand but based on the ingredients list, which mentions coriander and cura�ao, this is not a Hefeweizen at all but a Belgian-style witbier... Thick, frothy, snow white, regularly shaped, dense head staying closed for a long time, over a hazy ’old gold’ coloured beer with warm orangey tinge and visible fizz here and there. Aroma of mandarin, orange peel (even ’fresh’ rather than the dried ones that actually went in here), ripe peach, jasmin, banana, chewing gum, powder sugar, white bread, coriander, baking powder, gypsum, soap, dry cookies, grass. Crisp, sweetish onset, banana and peach hints in a very clean kind of way, bubblegum, with a soft sourish undertone, medium carbonated; slick, soapy, bit creamy body. Malt sweet middle, soapy wheat but in a soft and sweetish way not including the sourishness one would find in a witbier, tad bready but in a thin and clean way, orange peel flavours lingering alongside soapy coriander providing a soft, bit perfumey spiciness to the finish, along with a late and expectedly very mild but still adequate touch of grassy hop bitterishness, with a gently drying effect. Bubblegummy flavours linger but not in an overly bothersome way. Quite decent for an industrial beer actually, I expected less from this. The banana and bubblegum effect of isoamylacetate is reminiscent of the other industrialized Dutch ’Weizens’ but clearly spicing a beer intended as a Weizen with dried orange peel and coriander is very un-German and results in a kind of hybrid between Hefeweizen and witbier - in other words, this beer is definitely not true to style and is not really a Weizen, which could be a bit of an issue for people buying this and expecting something really German style. Other than that, this feels way less industrial than expected, simple alright, but enjoyable enough.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Aug 2017 at 07:03

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
From bottle at home, a very good cloudy dark yellow color, good head. Taste is okay, but the aftertaste is not there for a long time.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2017 at 10:24

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Pours hazy orange golden, topped with smaller white head. Sweaty sweet wheat nose with some bananas. Sweet wheaty, slight spiciness in the finish. Medium body and medium aftertaste. Not bad.
Tried on 12 Aug 2017 at 11:16

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Flesje gekregen van TomHendriksen. Oranje-geel bier, licht troebel. Aroma is kruidig, fruitig en moutig. Smaak is zacht moutig maar ebt snel weg. Ondanks dat weitzen bieren niet mijn favorieten zijn valt deze niet tegen.
Tried on 11 Aug 2017 at 16:26

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle. Color: Hazy orangish golden, dense white head. Taste: Coriander, wheat, hints of orange peel, yeast. Medium body and carbonation. Bit watery. Lacking taste and freshness.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jun 2017 at 05:46