Brouwerij Palm

Commercial Brewery in Steenhuffel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Bavaria Brouwerij (Swinkels Family Brewers)
Associated Venue: Palm Brewery

Established in 1706

Contact
Steenhuffeldorp 3, Steenhuffel, 1840, Belgium
Subsidiaries
Brouwerij Palm owns 2 breweries:
Description
Sometime before 1698 one Andries Van Doorselaer started renting a brewery next to the church in Steenhuffel; however, he was able to open his own brewery when he purchased the De Hoorn property across the street in 1706. In 1801 De Hoorn is sold by public auction to Jan Baptist De Mesmaecker and Clara Bastaerts. In 1908, his daughter Henriette De Mesmaecker married Arthur Van Roy, a descendant of a brewing family from Wieze.

Arthur kick-started the brewery’s industrial development in order to sell his beers far beyond the borders of the municipality. He also created his own “Spéciale Belge” brew. In 1929, Arthur Van Roy gave his “Spéciale Belge” the brand name “Spéciale PALM”. The brewery continued to grow before and after the second World War.

In 2014 Palm Breweries is renamed Palm Belgian Craft Brewers. A new micro-brewery is opened in order to experiment with new combinations of herbs, spices, hops, fruit and wood, and is named in honour of De Hoorn. At 10 hl, the capacity of the micro-brewery is almost exactly the same as that of the village brewery of days gone by.

On 9 May 2016, the Dutch brewery Bavaria N.V. (Swinkels Family Brewers) bought a majority stake in the company. Bavaria initially bought 60% of the shares and will expand this to 100% in 2021.

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Lys brun tåkete med hvitt skum. Lukter hvete, banan, kardemomme og noe appelsinskall. Lett. Søt. Smaker hvete, banan og kardemomme.

Tried on 11 Apr 2023 at 15:35


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

10/IV/23 - 33cl can as a gift, shared @ holiday home (France), BB: II/2024, GQFF, 51632L (2023-315) Thanks to Arno for the can!

Clear gold blond beer. So, you claim to make a mix of a (Hefe)Weisse and a NEIPA, and you end up with a completely clear beer? Congrats, jeez… Small creamy white head, unstable, falls down quickly (not a typical Weissbeer characteristic), adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: a bit malty, some banana, slightly fruity, where’s all those Citra, Enigma and Mosaic hops? Oh boy… Just a faint hint of tropical fruits somewhere in the back. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit sweet, fruity, banana, gentle bitterness, a bit metallic, some citrus notes, a bitter touch. Aftertaste: more metallic, some grapefruit, pretty bitter, soapy finish with some banana peel. I guess this is what a marketer’s mind’s creation ends up tasting like. What a fucking joke.

Tried from Can on 10 Apr 2023 at 18:00


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can. Color: Clear golden,white head. Aroma: Malty. Taste: Malty, grainy with floral hop background. Over moderate sweet, moderate to over moderate biterness. Bit sugary. Yeasty and spicy hints, lightly fruity (citrus). Medium body, average carbonation. Ok but nothing special

Tried from Can on 03 Apr 2023 at 20:19


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can from local AH XL supermarket, my first Dutch deposit can. :) Palm going 'craft' with this new Wheat-NEIPA hybrid... Color: Hazy pale yellow, white head. Aroma: Wheat malt, yeasty and lemon hints, herbal. Taste: Herbal, wheat malt, lemon and tropical fruit notes, hoppy notes. Slightly sour, light to moderate sweet and bitter. Sweetish finish. Medium body, average carbonation. Ok, nothing less and nothing more.

Tried from Can on 02 Apr 2023 at 14:54


5.3
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

As if we had not yet enough 'fake' abbey beer brands, here is a new one created by Swinckels and assigned to the Belgian Palm brewery they took over in 2016. Bottle from an Albert Heijn supermarket. Rocky, snow white, densely creamy and pillowy, thick, busily lacing head on a crystal clear beer with very pure and warm 'old golden' robe - liquid gold indeed, metallic-looking even, but pretty enough, with a column of visible sparkling rising up from the middle; remains clear till the last drop and is therefore certainly not refermented in the bottle, which I think makes this more of a 'strong golden ale' in the Belgian sense than a true tripel. Aroma of dried banana slices, chewing gum, industrial white bread, clove, freshly cut grass, young 'graanjenever', dried cut flowers, some vague raw potato and something notably plastic-like - in all, not very inviting. Sweetish onset, clean with bubblegummy effect and banana ester, very faint side notes of pear and peach perhaps, medium carbonation with minerally side notes around a very slick, rather thinnish (for ABV) body. Simple cereally pale maltiness with no depth at all in the middle, some clove-like phenols and a strong metallic aspect in the end; floral and grassy hop notes provide a late bitterness, but this is brutally taken over by a very 'jenever'-like astringency, with peppery and wry effect that lingers for a while. By that time, all the other flavours have vanished. I guess I should not have expected anything from old Bavaria in the way of even the simplest Belgian ales, but this is even worse than I thought, with very badly hidden alcohol, no depth or complexity at all, no bottle refermentation, no maltiness worth mentioning and annoying metallic effects. Most industrial 'tripel' I had in a long time - to that extent that I am even wondering if this is top-fermented at all and not just one of Bavaria's own strong pale lagers in disguise... 'Redundant' is the most friendly of conclusions I can draw here. I think I will pass for the rest of the series.

Tried on 01 Apr 2023 at 21:46


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Hazy, golden color with white head. Banana, peach, clove, flower aromas. Light sweetness. Average body, bit fizzy, sticky body. Fruity finish

Tried on 01 Apr 2023 at 18:25


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours amber, clear, with fine white foam. Aroma is honey and fruity. Body is average, with limited carbonation. Taste is balanced between some sweetness and decent bitterness. Final is average, with some more honey.

Tried from Draft on 29 Mar 2023 at 17:55


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle, 8.7%. Fruity aroma. Clear golden colour. Stable white head. The flavour is grainy and quite sweet. Good alcohol note

Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2023 at 19:55


6

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2023 at 20:43


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5


Can 330ml. @ [ Trinntorp 🇸🇪 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏡 💻👀

[ As St. Pierre Blonde ].
ABV: 6.5%. Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, marzipan malt, moderate yeasty, fruity yeast, sweet yeast, belgian yeast. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, sweet yeast, marzipan malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20230210]
6-3-7-3-13

Tried from Can on 10 Feb 2023 at 23:54