Kompaan

Microbrewery in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
Saturnusstraat 55 (voorzijde), Den Haag, 2516 AE, Netherlands
Description
Kompaan had humble beginnings, with just a few recipes and a whole lot of gusto. The brewery was founded by Jeroen and Jasper, two school friends that have known each other longer than not. They shared a zest for life and were ready to put The Hague on the craft beer map. The brewery name is based on this friendship, two companions drinking together. As a modern, young brewery making contemporary, exciting beers, the name is spelt in modern Dutch, as “kompaan”, and not “compaen”.

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Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Tart raspberry aroma with lactic notes, raspberry yoghurt, light malt, and a touch of strawberries. Flavour is tart and moderate sour. Body is medium. Not bad for a brewing accident, decent kettle sour, but not very exciting.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:00

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Bottle from a local supermarket. Sweet malty aroma with soft floral and spicy notes, some honey and bready wheat. Sweetish flavour with a mild bitterness. Body is light to medium. Sweet and dusty, dull beer.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:58

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Bottle from a local bottle shop. Aroma is strong orange with tangerine, orange peel, soft wheaty malt, fanta orange. Flavour is moderate to medium sweet with a mild bitterness. Body is light. Too much like orange soda but the bitterness and soft malt save this from being a disaster.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:58

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Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Soft hoppy aroma with tea, bready pale malt, fruits, some citrus, orange, light caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter. Body is light to medium. Okay, but a bit bland overall.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:57

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Bottle from Hopt. Aroma is roasted malt with strong Port barrel, chocolate, vinous red fruits, grapes, oak, some notes of coffee. Flavour is mildly tart and a bit sweet with a fairly dry finish. Body is medium. Decent, but blunt barrel aging, lacks some smoothness and balance.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:57

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From tap at Stadscafé Het Refter, Zwolle. Herbal and floral aroma with a heavy sticky body, some alcohol, malt, yeast, notes of overripe fruits. Sweet, sticky, yeasty and very herbal, too heavy for its own good. Not unpleasant, but surely a bit weird.
Tried from Draft on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:56

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is resinous hops with plenty of pine resin, grapefruit, malt, caramel, ripe orange. Pretty bitter and fairly sweet as well. Body is above medium. Some alcohol noticeable, bit hot. Bittersweet and resinous, good.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2025 at 14:28

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Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. As Kompaan Levensgenieter MMXX. Aroma is fruity hops with citrus, orange, soft tropical fruit, grapefruit, and pale malt. Flavour is light sweet and medium bitter with a dry-ish conclusion. Body is medium. Good IPA. Lacks New England finesse but as a 'regular' IPA this is fine.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2025 at 14:26

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From tap at Stadscafé Het Refter, Zwolle. Basically a banana smoothie with bitterness. Lots of sugary banana and lactose in the aroma. Flavour is bittersweet with a creamy mouthfeel. Too sweet, too much lactose, liquid banana candy.
Tried from Draft on 03 Feb 2025 at 14:25

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from Mitra Assendorp, Zwolle. Sweet brown malt aroma with caramel, spices, some chocolate, dried fruits, some raisins. Sweet flavour with a mild bitterness. Medium body. Not picking up much ginger, some nice spiciness. Decent Quad.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2025 at 07:08