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

Straw-gold; clear large white head. Not very hoppy nose - just what Germans call "herb". Taste: Oups. Tastes oxydised. Grainy flavour and bitterness in the palate. This is strange for Zlatec. Light bodied. Apple in the aftertaste. A bit disappointing. Strange effect for Saaz- supposed to be all aroma and little bitterness. Just about OK. Ain't bottom-fermenting.

Tried on 05 Mar 2004 at 17:39


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Amber colour, white head. Too sweet for my taste, a hint of liquorice.......

Tried on 02 Mar 2004 at 09:26


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Gushing to light-pink foam; amber-brown beer with red-pink shine. Concentrated fruit nose (raspberry, raspberry jam, blackcurrant,...) Slightly tart raspberry taste & good fruitacids and carbonation on top of rather sweet base. Retronasal flavour of currant shrubs. However, very light, limit of watery texture. No beery notes whatsoever. Long fruitish aftertaste. Lately, a number of Walloon breweries - some quite artisanal - have exceeded in releasing abysmally bland and boringly light 'fruit'beers (Rosé des Remparts, Ducassis,...). Caulier has definitely done better. A really great fruitbeer it isn't - yet.

Tried on 28 Feb 2004 at 13:17


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

Light amber color. Quite good Strong Belgian Ale, sweet; ligth Madeira character (the Magnum bottle is 4 years old); I like it enough, but it's not extraordinary.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2004 at 04:59


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cloudy golden color. Nice malty aroma with some yeast, with orange peel, apple. The mouthfeel is too dry and simple, less original than the aroma, similar to a Triple. Light residual sweetness.

Tried on 13 Feb 2004 at 02:40


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pale blond color. Dry aroma, fresh, a bit spicy; citrus fruits. Quite smooth, with a peculiar light liquorice note, dry but with a residual sweetness. Quite ordinary palate. Too simple.

Tried on 08 Dec 2003 at 07:00


7.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cloudy amber color, lasting head. Sweet caramel aroma and taste. Alcohol is unnoticeable. Quite nice brew.

Tried on 12 Oct 2003 at 18:40


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

(Flip-top bottle) Hazy orange. Fluffy white head, going down fast. End of bottle completely opaque, not very appetizing colour. Alcoholic, nutty, oxidation in the nose (??? bottle is 3 years to BBdate). Something spicy as well. Taste: beucch - liquorice. TONS of the stuff. The very strange, meaty, or rather meatjuice in aspic, specific to this beer, is there again, but it is more subdued than the first time I had this beer. Sweet, meaty-yeasty. The liquorice keeps hanging around, but gets less obvious, to be superseded by an orangezest flavour. Full bodied; soupy, thick mouthfeel. It is a strange beer, not only because of its colour. Somehow I wonder if the yeast used can cope with the OG/ABV.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2003 at 13:28


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hazy orange-amber; thick yellow-orange head, irregular, lacey. Nose with orange peel, lightly-coloured malts, liqueurish. Very citrussy/orangey taste. Subdued bitterness, both spicy and malty in character. Palate reveals more sweetness with a fruity character. Somehow I get an artichoke retronasal aroma. Well-bodied; alcohol present without burning sensation. Sweet, bit sticky aftertaste. Better than average, nowhere awesome. Impossible to tell from the label whether still genuine, or already contract-brewed.

Tried on 26 Aug 2003 at 12:17


4.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottled. Muddy bright red with very lively head. Sweet raspberry aroma. Yeasty and sweet with flavours of cookies and soft chocolate nougat along with raspberry jam. Unusual, but I don't like it much.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Aug 2003 at 04:52