Jessenhofke

Contract Brewer in Kuringen, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2010

Contact
Simpernelstraat 17, Kuringen, 3511, Belgium
Description
The organic brewing project of Gert Jordens, official since 2010 but active as a home brewer since 1999. Originally the beers were made at the Proefbrouwerij but production moved to Anders (and sometimes Strubbe) in 2013. One of the very few Belgian brewing companies which produce only organic beers; hops are exclusively sourced from Joris Cambie's organic hop farm in Poperinge. Exports 22% of its production, primarily to the Netherlands.

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours golden with some tiny impurities and an off-white head. Intensely fruity nose with quite some hops and esters. Solid body, heavily fruity with loads of white sugars and a surprisingly hoppy finish. 261111
Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2011 at 02:27

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle @ FOneFan. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit and yeast. Flavour is malt, yeast, medium sweet, hops, fruit, sugar and medium bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2011 at 02:27

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottle. It’s a slightly sedimented beer, else clear, golden in color and with a small, white head. A nice hoppyness in the aroma, with grass and pine cones. Fruityness and some maltyness too. Some warmth in the mouth, full-bodied and pleasantly carbonated. Fruity and rather bitter, with an underlying malty touch. White sugar too, but not too much. Mostly bitter and fruity in the end. A quite decent beer. 111126
Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2011 at 02:27

2.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 2 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 2.5
Lightly hazy blond body. Slightly off-white creamy head (of the books). Disgusting aroma of fat, salami, wine(?), anise (bit), orange (bit), spices. It is mainly the first part that makes it disgusting, even it would not be there it could have been ok. Moderately bitter, lightly sweet flavour. The disturbing factor is also present in the flavour and dominates everything. I love experimenting, but obviously not always the result.
Tried on 24 Nov 2011 at 10:33

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle, 6%. Aroma of refreshingly spicy hops. Clear shiny golden colour. Big stable white head. The flavour is of biscuity malts with a little sweetness. Medium bitterness. Hint of yeast like expected, but not too much. A well-balanced and rather clean Belgian.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2011 at 09:27

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
33cl bottle. thick creamy white head. Hazy blond pour. Nice enough beer.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2011 at 15:31

4.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Bottle at Hasselt Beer Festival, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium 12.11.11 in company of Loz, Jackie, Simon and David. Light, light gold with a thin white rim of bubbles. Really thin in the mouth, soft mouthfeel, not much of anything flavourwise detected. Poor rating I know but when a beer is closer to water than beer it is tricky to be that descriptive about it. A5 A4 T4 P2 Ov9 2.4
Tried from Bottle on 15 Nov 2011 at 14:47

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Virtually no head, but some white little bubbles, fed by lively carbonated hazy lemon-yellow beer. Very faint (sweet) malts’ nose, rather typical for bwabza’s (nablabs), rather than tafelbier. Summergrain. Neutral with a nearly bitterish (root)spiciness; near all the sweetness gone in the taste; herbal. Feels overcarbonated, watery and thinnish. For a tafelbier, or certainly a nablab, fairly decent. Pushing ’neutral’ to a virtue. Not even reckoning that the designation categories I, II, III and S are illegal to be used still, somebody ought to explain me how a 3.5 % ABV beer could be Cat. S?!
Tried on 27 Oct 2011 at 08:27

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle at home in London. Pours an almost clear, ruby-brown with a creamy, light tan head. Toasted sugar aroma, like turbinado, with hints of berries and other fruits. Medium sweet flavor, kind of messy. Some fruits, hints of brown sugar and leather, some toast. Medium bodied with lively carbonation. Sweet finish, slightly warming, more toasted sugar, slimy syrup, mild dirt. There’s an odd, biting aspect to the carbonation. Pretty average stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2011 at 14:00

6.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
bottle@Bahnhove: hazy golden with a decent white head, lots of spices everywhere, highly carbonated, some yeast, pale malts, handful of bitter hops, touch of fruits, bit too thin & way too over-carbonated for my own personal preferences
Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2011 at 08:31