beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Blondie (4.8%) from Brouwerij 't IJ 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
A clear golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of sweet yellow fruits, wheat malt. Taste of mild herbal and sweet pale malt, yeast and phenols.
wizzzzz (1798) reviewed Calypso Session IPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bière bue au Berthom à Lille. Robe blonde claire. Nez parfumé, avec des notes d'agrumes, de citron et de zeste d'orange. En bouche, elle s'avère très légère, ce qui la rendrait idéale pour étancher la soif par temps chaud. Cependant, j'ai trouvé qu'elle manquait de corps et était un peu trop aqueuse à mon goût.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Vrijwit from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Good white head over very faintly veiled golden beer. Bit nutty nose, slightly roasted nuts even, caramel. More than a hint of coriander, fake citrus, citruspeel. Coriander, citrus, lemon. Underneath - spring water. Empty MF, very well-carbonated, ultra light. Refreshing. Mineral water with coriander and lemon.
Borresteijn (12407) reviewed 82 Grape Ale from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
33cl Fles van De Bierkoning. Goudgele kleur, witte kraag. Zwavel, druiven, rubber, dennen, gist is aardig uit de bocht gevlogen, het resultaat is niet heel aangenaam. Lichte body.
TomHendriksen (8176) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Fles gedeeld door Roelzie. Het is een goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van hop en citrus. De smaak is vol hoppig en citrus achtig met een bittere afdronk.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed IPA from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle at Vinos Handeland. Hazy orange coloured body, clingy lacing from a covering white head. Inviting smell of grassy hops withe a citric scent. Fine blended taste profile, moments of citrus, dried fruits, and biscuit. Rounded citric bitter end. Fine partner to our cheese. Likeable. (La Vila Joiosa, 09.02.2024).
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Eldorado from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Lager hopped with "different hop varieties" which sadly remain undisclosed, though the very name of the beer (El Dorado) reveals at least one of them... One of the newer IJ beers, now under the experienced guidance and commercial exploitation of Moortgat; longneck bottle from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick, even somewhat foamy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, audibly fizzing, very moussey, bit coarse, stable head on a crystal clear pure golden blonde beer with 'old gold' tinge and some disparate sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma of half-dry lime and grapefruit peel, raw cereals, freshly cut grass, iron but not too obnoxiously so - as in raw spinach rather than actual iron objects, cooked broccoli but not too DMS-like (pasteurisation however seeming unlikely due to it at least being unfiltered), moist white pepper and quite a lot of it, overheated cotton cloth, fresh young mugwort, moss, very vague green mango somewhere, minerals. Crisp onset, some basic malt fruitiness (pear in this case) but no esters, sweetish with a dim sourish undertone, minerally carbonation as well as a slight metallic effect; smooth mouthfeel, slick cereally pale maltiness with the faintest touch of biscuit, under growing grassy hops, providing a mild yet still effective end bitterness as well as retronasal impressions of dried lime peel, freshly cut grass and vague background echoes of lemongrass and pomelo - but nowhere near as outspoken as they should be in a true IPL. Some mildly spicy bitterness lingers, but so do a 'cooked cloth'-like pasteurisation effect and a bland, straightforward pale malt sweetishness, the sweet element of which eventually began to bother me. IPL gone industrial, one could state; indeed hoppier than the average Dutch macro pale lager, but this is its only redeeming feature, in its core this is basically another simplistic pale lager hauling from a brewery that once pioneered the great Dutch craft beer movement, spiced up with an injection of New World hops which we are apparently not allowed to identify. I do not expect anything truly good to come out of 't IJ anymore after the Moortgat takeover - but now that I come to think of it and with a few scarce exceptions, they were never that great anyway in the eighties and nineties, at least not from a Belgian perspective. But that is history and now is today, of course... I can accept this as an IPL, though, and it clearly stands above the familiar range of macro-brewed, standardised supermarket lagers, there is no denying that.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed IJbok from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle from Jumbo supermarket in Stein, Netherlands. F: medium, tanned, average retention. C: dark brown with coppery tones. A: banana, apples, light roasted tones, spicy touch. T: medium to full malty base, light roasted tones, cocoa, coffee, banana, red apples, bready, nice balanced bitterness, caramel, bit nutty, medium carbonation, nice nourishing bock, enjoyed for sure, classic for the style.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Ginger Paradise from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Jumbo supermarket in Stein, Netherlands. F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: malty, ginger, fruity, bit caramel. T: medium malty base, fruity, ginger, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, grapefruits, ok for ginger beer, enjoyed.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed 84 Roasted Amber from Brouwerij 't IJ 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear amber colour with fluffy head. Nice toasted malt taste. Good balance of bitter and sweet but in general very basic and certainly worse than cheaper alternatives like De Koninck or Palm for example.