On the 23rd and 24th of April we will tap our beers for the first time in Italy! To be more specific – on Sardinia. We are serving our beers at Ad Arzachena C’e’ Fermento. The beers we bring this weekend are: 1. HOP ART – India Pale Ale 5% 2. PLAYGROUND SERIES – Mosaic IPA 6% 3. FESTIVAL SAISON – Hoppy Saison 5,5% 4. DARK ROAST – Coffee Stout – 8,0% 5. BLACK IPA – Black IPA – 7,0% Are... Read more
At the Arno Wallaard Memorial cycling tour they know what they are doing. These guys have invited us to tap our beers to the thirsty spectators as well as the riders in this tour once they are finished. We couldn’t think of any better reason to get into Spandex and ride across the area for a few hours!
Last weekend we have won the first price at the most awesome Groningen beer festival with Cappuccino, our milkstout version of Dark Roast – our core range coffee stout. For the festival only we have made a very lmited amount of this special brewski. The cool thing about this challenge is that the beer is tasted by both a jury as well as consumers and off course we only brew our beers for them (you!)! In Dark Roast Cappuccino we... Read more
This friday and saturday (8 – 9 april) we will set up our bar at the beer festival in Groningen’s famous Martini chruch. About 45 breweries will be there and we are one of them. As you can expect from us we will bring some new and exciting craft beers from Utrecht, among which the first Playground: Mosaic IPA. This IPA is brewed with the American Mosaic. A relatively new hop which gives a powershot of fruit in the flavour... Read more
Zonnesteek (Sunstroke) is back! Again we celebrate the season of the days getting longer with our special brew – zonnesteek. Zonnesteek is brewed with tradional German hops and malts, however we add a healthy dose of American hop goodness which gives this beer a fresher character than traditional May Bocks. Zonnesteek is found throughout the country in the bars with good vibes, bottle shops where the sun shines and of course at some festivals.
At the Dutch Beer Challenge our Black IPA has been awarded a bronze medal. Our Black IPA – originally released in the Hop Art series is a returning special in our range. Some say this beer might be the cause of the recently debated hop shortage. We are proud to be awarded with this medal by a profesional jury once again, Slainte!
As you know – we do not care too much for official beer styles. So when we introduced BlackBock in the autumn of 2015 that is exactly what we showed – a black bock beer with 6% ABV packed with fresh flavours of German hops, roasted malts and notes of licorice. Of course this doesn’t fit in with the way too sweet bocks that most breweries in the Netherlands brew, however its fits our philosophy of brewing according to the taste of... Read more
In de Playground series we brew beers originating in our playground: the brewery! Recipes first came to our mind while sitting on a rocking horse, improved them gliding down the slide and tasted the first sip it in the little wooden house – that’s what kind of serie we are talking about. In the Playground series we wil try new hop varieties, barrel age some, search for the limits of what beer is, add some spices, the crazier the better. ... Read more
Somewhere deep in the tranches of the Internet the biggest beer geeks meet and they speak about beers they taste and beer trips they make. One of the activities of this group of fanatics is the Beer Geek Swap – some sort of secret Santa but then with only beer! We simply love this concept! Passionate people discussing taste, balance while surprising one another. For that same reason we once started brewing and of course drinking and discovering Craft Beers. Don’t... Read more
Turf ‘n Surf is a tripel. We didn’t expect is either but this winter we felt like brewing a Belgian style beer. A regular tripel off course we didn’t brew, that’s too boring for us – welcome smoke and salt! The minimum amount of peated malt in this beer give it that subtile smokey hint which we complement with a pinch of sea salt. We brewed Turf ‘n Surf with Summer hops, a fresh Australian variety with a bang. Next... Read more
