Brasserie Caulier
Microbrewery
in Péruwelz,
Hainaut,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Caulier Taproom & Shop
Established in 1996
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle conditioned (BB 04/2007)
Deep hazy read, good red head. Aroma has sweet blueberry with sour tones. Carbonated, sourish, light-bodied palate, a bit too watery. Fruits: rasberry, blueberry and strawberry are there. Bitter but a bit lame and metallic aftertaste. "Blueberry lambic" that is.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle Gray, blonde body. White, frothy head. Fair lace. Citrus with some malts in the nose. Lightly bitter initial flavour. Moderately bitter finish. Fully bodied. Very alcoholic.
MiP (20366) reviewed Bon Secours Blonde de Noël from Brasserie Caulier 21 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Credited as Bon Secours de Noël. Draught. Strange bonbon aroma. Yellow boring colour, no head. Very weet flavour with some weird aftertaste.
diabel (1874) reviewed Bon Secours Blonde from Brasserie Caulier 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle Blond body. White, rocky aroma. Good lace. Yeasty aroma. Lightly bitter, lightly sweet flavour. A decent belgian strong ale.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Perle from Brasserie Caulier 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(draught) Deep gold: too large, off-white head, leaving lace. Very malty nose, like entering a working brewery. Again, top-malty, fresh pale malts to the fore. Hops are there, but remain in the background. Medium rather than light bodied. Bit dry aftertaste, yet quite refreshing. A pilsener for the malt heads. If you’re into the typical malty Pilseners, this is the one for you. Quite OK in its style.
diabel (1874) reviewed Rochefortoise Brune from Brasserie Caulier 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - at Hopduvel, Ghent, Belgium
Lightly brow, rocky head. Excellent lace. Mostly lasting head. Black body. Malty aroma (burnt, strong coffee). Moderately sweet, moderately initial flavour. ("drop"-like) Lightly sweet, lightly bitter finish (averagily long).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Reasonably clear orange-amber; good, yellowish head. Fresh toilet soap-like aroma, grassy, bit of caramel. Outspoken caramel flavour. Not very sweet, however. Malty, not roasted - unless there’s some Maillard. Medium bodied at best, alcohol there but not annoyingly. Light acidity in the aftertaste, and a straw aroma. No beer ought to taste according to some silly style rules, IMO. But this beer seems to try to pull in three or more directions at once, without arriving anywhere. My least favourite of the three.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Bon Secours Blonde from Brasserie Caulier 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Clear yellow-gold, but with greenish shine; heavily carbonated to good, fluffy snow-white head. Initial sharp C0²/malt nose, going over in more (root-)spicey notes and citrus. Taste is again citrus and rootspices (horseradish - but without the sharpness - laosroot or farchiew. (White) bread in the finish. Medium bodied, slight acidity keeps hanging into the aftertaste. Some alcohol obvious. Saucy blonde, but she has not THAT much to offer. Not too meaty, which is good for Caulier, who are heavy into Rubensianian pastries...
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Rochefortoise Blonde from Brasserie Caulier 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Fully hazy yellow with greenish shine, witbier-like; preposterously huge, snow-white head, very dense but not remaining. Vanilla, double cream (really lactic) nose, citrus and at the end again coffee cream or something similar. Very meaty yeast-flavours, the one from Caulier. Off-bitter flavour, more (root)herbal than hoppy, a bit phenolic. Fresh but faint citrusflavour overlying. Creamy texture, again like a lactic-fruit drink; medium bodied. Long lactic-sourish aftertaste. Surprising beer, obviously straight from the Caulier stable. Not off-putting, but a bit weird.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Rochefortoise Brune from Brasserie Caulier 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Very deep dark brown beer, reddish shine but hazy; slim, inconspicous white rim, behaves like an old beer (which it isn’t). Very sweet, vinous, powerful nose with some spicey notes. Caramel but not overwhelming. Obviously oxidation again, madeirisation, which is flabbergasting, as the BBD is still 4 years to come! Superb vinous, raisin-like flavour, portwine or old madeira, rich fruitcake. None or little spices. Slick, nearly viscous mouthfeel, but not very full-bodied. The alcohol, no doubt, but also this premature oxidation. I just love this beer. Much as it pains me to admit, they’ve done MUCH better at Péruwelz, than at Eprave. Without the truckload of spices than the original, and though much sweeter than its near namesake, this is a contender for Rochefort 8 or 10°.