Brasserie Caulier

Microbrewery in Péruwelz, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Caulier Taproom & Shop

Established in 1996

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Rue de Sondeville 134, Péruwelz, 7600, Belgium
Description
In 1933 Charles Caulier, a miner, left his job and decided to set up as a beer reseller in Bonsecours, a small village in the south of Belgium. In 1980, Roger and Linda Caulier took over the family business and continued progressing.
The warehouses soon became too cramped so they took over the buildings of a former tannery in Péruwelz. The products of the Brewery are still brewed in these buildings today.

In the early 1990s, Roger and Linda decided to market their own beer: a custom-made high fermentation blonde. The Bon Secours was born! These were promising beginnings but they still dreamt of creating their own brewery. A dream which became reality when they bought the machinery from the Deneve brewery in Schepdaal and inaugurated the first brew in 1996!

In 2007, the NV Brasserie Caulier was declared bankrupt. At the beginning of 2008, the activities were transferred to a private limited company of the sons of Roger Caulier, who subsequently adopted the name Brasserie et Distillerie Caulier. As of 2012, Laurent, Bertrand and Vincent joined their parents in the adventure. In order to respond to the growing demand for its products, in 2018 the Brewery began a large multi-annual programme of investments with the goal of tripling its production capacity. The historical Brewing House has been extended, new fermentation and storage tanks have been added, and the bottling line has been modernised.

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6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Short-lived white head over lemonjuice- coloured beer. Mint, chaff & lemon nose, fresh, but a bit "ye olde toilet-shoppe" like. Pale malts abund, very citrussy. Lots of malt and an outspoken touch of acidity, lactic, ending on metallic tasting, weird, near-oxyidized grain. Refreshing, but not very lively beer, light bodied. Definitely the total conversion has its consequences. It’s not undeserving, refreshing enough, but no aspirations at greatness.

Tried on 20 Sep 2007 at 14:13


5.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 4.5

Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a bit of sediment floating around under a thin bubbly white head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of fruit and alcohol and lesser notes of spices and some oxidation - even though it is wihtin the best before date. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of fruit, cork (even though it is not corked), and alcohol, as well as medium notes of spices, leading to a dry fruity finish. One powerful beer - I wonder how it is very fresh, mine is I guess 1½ years old, yet within the best before date.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2007 at 16:09


5.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled. An unclear golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of youghurt and citrus. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrus, spices, and youghurt, combined with a light touch of the alcohol, leading to a dry spicy finish.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2007 at 12:22


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

Bottled at Belgobaren, Stockholm. Hazy amber, explosive huge rocky head. Yeasty black currant aroma. Bittersweet and somewhat fruity, lively carbonation with a dense core of malt undernetah. Notes of bready malt, kiwi fruits and winegum as well as flowery hops. Piney and spritzy. A pleasant gently warming complex summer rains beer.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2007 at 15:16


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle at Københavnske øldage 07. Deep red colour with a a pink head. Aroma is raspberry, black current, blueberry. Flavour is dry, raspberry, blueberry, , spices. Nice beer.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2007 at 02:30


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at Københavnske Øldage. Dark, red, with a nice, dense, pink head. Raspberry, blackcurrant, strawberries and offcourse blueberry in the aroma, mostly blueberries, and there’s a little spice-hint as well. Berries, sugar and some spice in the flavor. Quite fizzy, and lightly sweet in the mouth. Too much berries and too little else in this one, but it is refreshing. (070512)

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2007 at 03:49


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Pours a dark reddish color with a small pinkish colored head. Sweet malty fruity blurberry aroma. Sweet fruity blueberry flavor with a sweet malty fruity finish.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2007 at 03:58


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Very pale gold, nowhere murky, unless the bottle is shaken; gushing-exploding to a huge, very equal white head. Bit oily, with virtually no wheatbeer characteristics. No coriander, no orangepeel, even no wheat. Strange. Sweet, again no "wit" notes, exept the very perfumey character - but it is like a light top-fermenting barley brew, not a wheat. Medium bodied, quite slick, nearly viscous. Poor witbier, even without coriandersurplus. I’m sure it will be bettered for the next batch (first try).

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2007 at 14:45


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

Bottle. Medium brown color with a large frothy good lacing mostly lasting off-white to light brown head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, moderate yeasty, sugar, fruit ! Flavor is moderate sweet and acidic, light to moderate bitter with short to average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:42


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

Bottle. Cloudy amber color with a average fizzy fair lacing mostly lasting off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel. moderate yeast, sugar, fruit ! Initial flavor is moderate sweet and acidic, light bitter, finish flavor is modrate sweet, acidic and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:38