Brouwerij De Ryck
Microbrewery in Herzele, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Established in 1886
Closed in 2025
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Description
Brewery De Ryck is family brewery with a rich history and tradition.
The brewery was founded in 1886 by Gustave De Ryck as ‘Brewery the Golden Eagle’ in the eastern part of Flanders in front of the church in Herzele . Herzele is not only our home base, it's the source of the typical and unique flavor you discover in our beers. We value our origine, our environment and our local market.
We strive for top quality in creating and brewing our beers out of respect for our heritage and connected to today's beer market. Everyday we make tradition and innovation meet.
The brewery was founded in 1886 by Gustave De Ryck as ‘Brewery the Golden Eagle’ in the eastern part of Flanders in front of the church in Herzele . Herzele is not only our home base, it's the source of the typical and unique flavor you discover in our beers. We value our origine, our environment and our local market.
We strive for top quality in creating and brewing our beers out of respect for our heritage and connected to today's beer market. Everyday we make tradition and innovation meet.
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Copper colour, small off-white head. Aroma has caramel malts and some spices. Flavour is bready, has caramel malts and sugar cane.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2008
at 09:56
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a light orange brown with a white medium head. I expected something more golden, maybe to cold. I do like the appearance. Aroma is sweet with fruit, malt, and some very fine spice. The taste is very good with fruit and sugary malts, the finish is tangy hops that dry the buds. Very pleasant suprise!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2008
at 11:20
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Clear golden with brief airy head. Sugary, almondy nose. Slim and dense, pretty much like a low alcohol tafelbier. Some rasiin, but whatever is is covered in thick layers of sticky sugar solution. Burning syrupy sweetness. Yikes, this is terribly unbalanced and contains not much of interest either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2008
at 08:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white creamy head. Aroma is fruits, wood, malts and some alcohol. Flavour is fruits, some wood, mild parfumeishlike notes as well as some acidic notes. Overall very sweet, and not too pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2008
at 00:39
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. A deep red beer with small black pieces of sediment floating arouind under a thin pink head. The aroma is sweet with notes of cherries and almonds. The flavor is sweet with primary notes of cherries with an light underlying acidity, that draws a bit of mouthwater.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2008
at 13:12
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle, thanks to Ungstrup for sharing rare brew. Pours hazy deep red and with a fizzy pink head. Mild almond and light wooden cherry aroma. Flavour starts sweet and soon reveals a more herbal to wooden flavour. Light citric and mild mouldy mix. Lingering sweet fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2008
at 09:25
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Pale peach coloured with medium white head. Sweet yeasty aroma with banana notes. Very sweet flavor with loads of banana and bubblegum notes. Ends sweet.
Tried
on 20 May 2008
at 10:28
3.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottled. A light golden beer with some sediment floating around under a disappearing white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of banana as well as a light touch of wheat. The flavor is very sweet - too sweet for my liking - making it almost artificial in flavor, with strong notes of banana, leading to a dry wheaty finish. Too sweet and too much banana.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2008
at 15:54
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy and yellow with a fizzy white head. Dry banana fruity aroma. Sweet and fruity banana flavoured. Slight cloying finish. Drinkable, I had expected much worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2008
at 01:29
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Orange coloured beer, medium white head. Aroma is fruity, with a lot of orange. Flavour has orange as well, with some spices. Decent tripel, but nothing special.
Tried
on 20 Apr 2008
at 07:15