Scåssenes (previously Ecaussinnes)

Commercial Brewery in Ecaussinnes, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 1999

Contact
Rue De Restaumont 118, Ecaussinnes, 7190, Belgium
Description
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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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sampled from an 11.2 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark golden color with a large yellow head. The aroma is tangy, bready and sweet with a hint of citrus underneath. The flavor is bready and bitter with a yeasty finish. Not nearly as good as the blonde

Tried from Bottle on 14 Nov 2006 at 21:06


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Sampled from an 11.2 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright golden color with lots of floaters and a huge yellow-white head that lingers. The aroma is sweet, yeasty and fruity with a bit of an underlying alcohol burn. The flavor is bitter, bready and fruity with a moderate alcohol burn. Tasty but nothing to seek out.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Nov 2006 at 21:04


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Horsens ølfestival. Golden/orange colour with a beige head. Aroma is spices, fruit. Flavour is spices, cellar-notes, fruit, sweet.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2006 at 00:49


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at horsens ølfestival. Dark golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, ginger. Flavour is alcohol, fruit, malt, cookie, ginger.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2006 at 00:43


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled at Horsens Beerfestival. Unclear, orange-golden beer with a small, beige head. Spices, caramel and sugar in the aroma. The flavor is sweet, with roasted notes, caramel and spices. Medium to full body. A quite quaffable beer. (061028)

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2006 at 04:01


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

Bottle. Dark amber color with a nice head with good duration. Aroma sweet, raspberry, . Flavor sweet, rasperry and malty.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Nov 2006 at 15:41


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask handpull at Westgate JDW, Canterbury. Thanks to maeib for identifying this one. Cloudy russet colour with lasting thick beige head. Sweet raspberry aroma, like kids sweets, bit of sourness in mouth, bit medicinal. Served very cold. Really overly sweet. Like raspberry ripple ice cream on end. Not awful, but it is ovely sweet in mouth even though the aftertaste is pretty good.

Tried from Cask on 29 Oct 2006 at 06:00


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

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma is sweet raspberry. Taste is sweet rasperry as well with some malt too.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2006 at 02:56


3.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Cask at JDW, Penny Black, Bicester 22-10-06. I read from the Thomas Hardy thread on the Forum that this is sold as Ecaussinnes Fruit Beer. Red slightly hazy beer, taste not too disimilar to vimto though only sweeter and far worse, It would be hard to say anything positive about this beer as it really wasn’t my thing it tasted far too artificial and sweet for me.

Tried from Cask on 24 Oct 2006 at 06:53


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a hazy gold into a tulip. Conglomerate head leaves splotchy lacing as it recedes. Bread, hay and soap aromas. Sweet honey from start to finish. Fizzy then flat. Cloying. I can feel a headache coming on...

Tried from Can on 03 Oct 2006 at 17:57