De Leite

Microbrewery in Oostkamp, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2008

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De Leiteweg 32, Oostkamp, 8020, Belgium
Description
Brouwer - eigenaar Luc Vermeersch heeft een grote interesse voor traditionele ambachten. Niet vreemd dus dat hij destijds in zijn tuinhuis een broodoven en kleine brouwerij heeft geïnstalleerd. De minibrouwerij van 30 liter had hij in 1997 in Finland gekocht. Hij kreeg van de fabrikant juist geteld één weekend opleiding. Door veel zelfstudie en het maken van talloze kleine proefbrouwsels groeide zijn brouwkennis en -interesse. Na 10 jaar brouwen schreef hij zich in voor een brouwcursus. Tijdens het cursusjaar smeedde hij plannen voor een grotere brouwerij en begon hij her en der delen van de installatie te kopen. In april 2008 was brouwerij De Leite een feit.

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at Zythos Beer Festival, March 7th and 8th 09 Pours light amber with a white head. Nicely bitter in the mouth and with a good level of tanginess but this is kept in line by some soft sweet maltiness. This is a good all round package and on occasion I got a refreshing saison like touch coming through. Really enjoyable and so pleased that I picked up a couple from the shop. A7 A4 F8 P4 OV15 3.8

Tried on 10 Mar 2009 at 13:32


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Yellow head, fast reduced to 2-3 mm over bit muddy chocolate brown beer with reddish hue. Toffee, roasted malts, bit of peanuts, chocolate / Munich malt. Sourish flavour, bit oxydized malts, vegetable and roasted notes trying to dominate, succeeding in bittering the finish. MF reveals pretty serious carbonation, only after some time. OK - no, better than OK, but less impressive than the Femme. Well, I might be biased.

Tried on 08 Mar 2009 at 03:41


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle: Poured an orange brown with an off white head. The aroma is cereal and spice. The taste is confusing with spices and a piney hop finish. This had warming and refreshing feel to it.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2008 at 08:44


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Fully hazy amber-orange beer with mossy shine; good, stable yellowish head. Lactic nose, grainy & wheat. Quite sharp-fiery taste with caramel, cookies (Petit Lu), and drying grass, even a slight oxydation. Slightly burning, very carbonated MF, medium bodied, and again - I seem to get wheat slickness, even when it is officialy not a witbier. Certainly not bad for a first brew of a beginning brewery. It shows character, and that is getting rare...

Tried on 18 May 2008 at 15:08