Brasserie de Silly

Commercial Brewery in Silly, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Be Silly - Out of business

Established in 1850

Contact
Rue Ville Basse, 2, Silly, 7830, Belgium
Description
Brasserie de Silly NV is still family-owned and is now in the hands of the sixth generation of the same family. The company is managed by cousins, Lionel and Bertrand Van der Haegen. Bertrand is responsible for production and Lionel looks after sales. Their parents, brothers Jean-Paul and Didier Van der Haegen are still active Board members. Brasserie de Silly has seen steady growth thanks to export sales and its quality image. Production in 2008 was 1,000,000 litres, but in 2018, 2,500,000 litres are expected to flow out of the tanks. Sales are on the up and up. Belgian beers produced in a traditional way are increasingly popular around the globe.

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8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 8
Bottled
Dark nut brown, small tanned head. Aroma has toffee, butterscotch, sourness, caramel - complex. Very sweet toffee flavor, like cream liquer. Short finish.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Aug 2004 at 15:29

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Golden color; creamy head. Quite good (dry) malty beer, rather spicy; but the aroma is too light and the final a bit metallic.
Tried on 19 Jul 2004 at 06:45

4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Light pink, very fine head; pink-orange colour, clear. Both citrus and something unbelievably artificial in the nose. There’s a spice too - but I can’t place it. Bit peppery (maybe grains of paradise?). Most fruit juices are better tasting - even the big corporate named. There’s an awful side taste (beer maybe?) that stands perpendicular on the main flavours. Light, watery fruit-juice like. This is terrible. It will draw nobody towards beer. It will not satisfy the breezer adepts. It won’t tempt any beergeek. It’s just one big waste of money, water and colouring.
Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2004 at 09:29

4.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
A hazy orange beer with no head. Both the aroma and flavor are dominated by yeast.
Tried on 07 Jul 2004 at 17:47

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
An amber beer with a fine but disappearing caramel colored head. The aroma is sweet and rather spicy. The flavor is also sweet spicy but combined with notes of caramel. This beer is too sweet for my liking.
Tried on 07 Jul 2004 at 16:21

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Cloudy amber beer with a small head. Yeasty aroma and flavor. There’s a rich malt flavor combined with fruit. Easy drinking.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2004 at 23:24

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
[@ Delirium Café] (It was named "Super Killer" at Delirium’s but according to the previous ratings, I think this must be the same.) Orange, red body. Grapefruit-aroma. Moderately sweet, lightly acidic initial flavoyr. Lightly sweet finish.
Tried on 26 Jun 2004 at 11:55

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cloudy golden color, medium white head. Aroma is spicy of coriander, fruity of citrus and banana, some wheat and yeast. Taste is bitter sweet, bit yeasty, but also refreshing from citrus. Quite comparable to the Hoegaarden Grand Cru, which also combines weizen and triple flavors. Therefore i cannot believe this is a winter seasonal. Printemps means spring I thought...
Tried from Can on 30 May 2004 at 05:09

6.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5

2024-08-19, corked bottle, cork tag 10-2000, bb 20/10/02, 24 years old, 7-4-7-3-16=37
Dark amber colour, opaque, with creamy head. Aroma of malt, Belgian yeast, light cork. Gente malt, gentle Belgian yeast, and light fruitiness; low bitterness, but overall balanced.
Very nice, amazingly not oxidized.

2004-05-22, corked bottle, 2003-03, 1 year old, 5-5-6-3-13=32
Dark amber color; creamy head. Simple caramel aroma. Quite interesting flavor, caramel and roasted malt; promising, but unfortunately too much metallic.
Tried from Bottle on 22 May 2004 at 21:58

7.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
The aroma is sweet caramel. The color is red-brown and it has a fine though collapsing beige head. The flavor is sweet caramel - nice for a Scotch ale. An good Scotch ale.
Tried on 10 May 2004 at 16:53