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The Brasserie d'Ecaussinnes was founded in 1999 by the Bruges couple Isabel & Hugues van Poucke. In 2012 the Chinese importer Xiaoning Yu bought the Brasserie d'Ecaussinnes from the Van Poucke's. Together with his friend and beer aficionado Michel Simon, he decided to invest in the former Brasserie d’Ecaussinnes. Substantive work was done to update the production and refresh the image of the brewery. In 2014, the introduction of a new team gave a young and modern dynamic to the brewery and the name was changed into Brasserie Scåssenes. In 2015, the brewery launched its own revolution….the 1830.

In 2020 after years of setbacks (the existing installations of the brewery turned out to be too old or too large; while co-investor Michel Simon left the firm) a new manager was appointed to put things in order. Brewmaster Jerôme, a medical biologist, keeps an eye on the fully automated brewing process.
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Kraddel (16033) reviewed
Ultrabrune from Scåssenes
11 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle . Pours dark brown, with a red glow. Small to good white head . Smell is bitter, tiny bit of coffee aspect, earthy , some hidden sweetness . Taste is bitter, some coffee, bit earth . caramel . Surprisingly sweet . Very soft carbo , light as well . Good, but less good than the other beers in the series even though higher ratings here ...
Tried from Bottle on 27 Oct 2014 at 11:44
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
X-Mas Blond from Scåssenes
11 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Spiced Christmas tripel since 2007. Off-white head over a yellow blonde beer, sweet and fruity aroma of cinnamon, honey, candi syrup, pineapple, vanilla, flowers. Soft sweet taste, sugary, strong peachy and banana-like fruitiness, gradually evolving into a floral and spicy, lightly warming finish. Nice.
Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2014 at 15:04
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultra Soif from Scåssenes
11 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5
With ’soif’ meaning thirst, it is obvious from the start that this one is intended as a simple blonde thirst quencher of low ABV, as there are many around. It bears a rocky, off-white, irregular head and orangey yellow robe, hazy, completely clouded with deposit. Fruity aroma of orange, mango, banana, flowers, soap, coriander, cheese, straw and some unpleasant solvents, even a bit ammonia-like, luckily fading away after a while. Fruity and citrussy, fresh onset, light sourish wheat, sweet pale maltiness, dryer in the finish with a medium long grassy hop bitterishness in the finish. Ordinary - but quenching indeed.
Tried on 26 Oct 2014 at 15:01
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultramour from Scåssenes
11 years ago
5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
A ’beer of love’ so to speak, unusual fruit beer with four different fruit extracts (no real fruit, unfortunately). Delicate, moussy, snow white, sticky head over an orangey copper beer, clear. Aroma of banana liqueur, grenadine, vanilla, shampoo, passion fruit liqueur, cinnamon, mandarin. Fresh but artificial sweetness in the onset, candied fruits, sugary, with eventually the dreaded lemonade- and bubblegum effect cloying for quite some time, with a hint of ascorbic acid to make things worse. Original alright and I’d even go as far as to recommend this over dozens of other overtly sweet fruit beers - but too sweet and sugary for me.
Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2014 at 14:57
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultra de Noël Blonde from Scåssenes
11 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
The Christmas beer from this brewery, a cloudy blonde ale with an aroma mostly dominated by cinnamon, next to aniseed, dried fruits, gingerbread, cake, soft and fluffy mouthfeel, sweet spicy taste very much reminiscent of ’speculoos’ and apparently intended as such, some lemony sourishness too. Very weird but not unpleasant. I read somewhere this is to be "ferrated", i.e. warmed up with a red-hot fireplace poker, which causes the excess of sugars to caramellize and stick to the poker so that the beer becomes less sweet and more balanced (as well as partially heated). Too bad I have no fireplace to try this, but it sounds attractive, on a cold winter evening. Perhaps the same effect can be achieved by placing this under a grill or something... Points for originality, in any case.
Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2014 at 14:52
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultra Fraîche from Scåssenes
11 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
Thirst-quencher, basically a "tripel tafelbier", with thick, cream white, moussy, firm head and pale yellow blonde colour, clear but hazy with deposit due to dusty yeast particles, vivid sparkling. Aroma of sweetish pale malts, an ethereal, fresh lemony acidity, green apple peel, banana, butter, flowers. Neutral onset with minerally carbonation, light and ’thin’ malt sweetishness sets in with subdued fruitiness and a faintly sourish accent, very mild bitterishness in the finish, which otherwise mostly consists of some malt sweetness lingering. Utterly light in all senses of the word - too light, in fact.
Tried on 26 Oct 2014 at 14:46
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultradélice from Scåssenes
11 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Specialty beer with yellowish beige, equal, moussy, sticky and stable head and very dark chestnut brown colour with ruby hue, misty. Aroma reveals a strong spicy sweetness of gingerbread, star aniseed, cinnamon and mint, some ’speculoos’ too, chocolate, cloves, blackcurrant, candied cherries, liqueur. Explicit sugary and syrupy sweetness in the mouth, soft and rounded mouthfeel, becoming more spicy but in a ’pastry’ kind of way, with ginger, aniseed and cinnamon impressions, a certain leatheriness and woodiness, resinous, port-like with weak hoppiness in the finish, which is dominated by the lingering initial candi sweetness. Unusual, very sweet but nevertheless interesting. Recommendable for those who enjoy thick, utterly sweet yet rich beers.
Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2014 at 14:38
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultrabrune from Scåssenes
11 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Ecaussinnes’ second beer, a potent ’massieve ale’ with a deep dark brown colour and medium thick, light beige head. Chocolatey and caramelly aroma, walnuts, candied fruits, raisins, brown bread, yeasty notes, floral hops; fluffy, mouth-filling maltiness, deep dark fruity sweetness, caramelly and chocolatey, slightly bittering in the end with indeed a kind of Scotch-like effect, and the expected warming alcohol. Complex and well-made, I really enjoyed this.
Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2014 at 11:43
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultrablonde from Scåssenes
11 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tripel with yellowish white, moussy and somewhat rocky, stable head and deep ’old gold’ colour, clear but cloudy with deposit, including somewhat off-putting protein strings. Very estery aroma, apricot, banana, orange, coriander, white pepper, caramel, honey, floral hops. Fruity, pleasantly malt sweet palate, light spicy hints, yeasty, rounded and straightforward with light hoppiness in the end. Decent but nothing extraordinary, just another tripel - again.
Tried on 26 Oct 2014 at 11:39
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Ultra Ambrée from Scåssenes
11 years ago
6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
This was apparently Ecaussinnes’ first beer, taken over from the retired Brasserie des Carrières; an amber coloured, cloudy beer with fruity and somewhat honeyish sweetishness, drying palate with herbal hop bitterishness in the finish. Decent Belgian amber ale - or rather, Wallonian ’ambrée’.
Tried on 26 Oct 2014 at 11:36