Brouwerij 't Kroontje

Microbrewery in Denderbelle, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2011

Contact
Hogebrug 62, Denderbelle, 9280, Belgium
Description
Wat is gestart als een gezamenlijke hobby van Dimitri Verbraekel en Marc Verberckmoes, 2 collega's-vrienden, werd in 2011 Brouwerij 't Kroontje en groeide uit tot een stilaan vaste waarde in het brouwersmilieu en zeker ook in onze gemeente. Na het plotse overlijden van Marc in 2018, ging Dimitri alleen verder met het ontwikkelen en produceren van de Rebellebieren, geheel volgens de stijl waarin de brouwerij oorspronkelijk werd opgestart.

Wij staan voor het artisanaal produceren van bieren van hoge gisting, volledig met natuurlijke producten. Geen toevoegingen van chemische middelen voor ons, enkel puur natuur! Een goed voorbeeld hiervan is ons frambozenbier: geen toegevoegde suikers of smaakversterkers, maar échte verse frambozen werden gebruikt om dit bier te maken. Ook bij het vervaardigen van onze nevenproducten (kaas, pastei en pralines) door anderen, hebben wij er een zwak voor om dit te laten doen door artisanale familiebedrijven die eerder kwaliteit dan kwantiteit leveren.

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

Bottle at craig’s. Pours clear golden, nose is floral, citrus, light sourness, taste is similar, bit funky. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bierminnerke on 11 Jan 2016 at 07:46 - Score: 6. Original review text: Bottle at craig’s. Pours clear golden, nose is floral, citrus, light sourness, taste is similar, bit funky.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2016 at 12:19


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Craigs. Pours hazy pale gold with a thin white head. Aromas of sweaty orange, faint yeast. Taste is light sweet, light astringent finish.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2016 at 12:19


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

bottle at home ... golden amber ... nice white head ... soft funky bready funk nose ... soft dry funk fruit ... ligth fruit .. odd herbal fruit ... light violots ... quite earth .. little sake esk .. and something ... wierd frutit maybe .. cant place

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2016 at 12:04


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

Pours dark brown. Small head fadest instantly. Smell is sharp, grainy, even a mild sourness from which I am expecting infection on this one. Taste is very burnt, and very sharp. Is it sourness, or is it just the intense burnt aspect ( overly burnt here) together with the rather thin mouthfeel that make it very alike sourness somehow ? bit dry as well. Some funky flavors which I wouldn’t expect in a stout. Yeah, this is probably infected. But in a subtile way though. Note -the text here on RB speaks about lactic acid being in there by plan. Not sure if this is an infected beer that would be named ’slightly sour’ just to save them the pain of having complains and/or committing flaws, or a beer sour on actual purpose, in which case I think would be a bad one, since the sourness should either be intenser, or just not there. Leaves us with the unstable foam that dissapears completely within seconds, often pointing towards the infected scenario.

Tried on 12 Oct 2015 at 16:28


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Pours clear blonde, ok white head. Smell is sweet, malty aromatic, with a peachy note that is pretty clear, yet not overwhelming, still quite hidden, in a way. Taste is bitter, some grainy background. Not really hoppy nor yeasty, so i’m not sure where the bitterness is coming from. Easy drinkable, with a good MF , perhaps a bit too high carbo. The peachy aspect is there ( towards the aftertaste ) but very hidden. Ok beer

Tried on 08 Oct 2015 at 13:46


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours very dark brown , ok white head fades fast. Scent is weak, bit sweet , dark malts in a plastic like way. Taste is bit bitter , chocolaty aspects amongst the dark malty base. Sweeter tthan average , very aromatic as well. Notes of hop. Agreeable carbo , bit thin mouthfeel given the abv. Alright.Earlier Rating: 4/26/2014 Total Score: 3.3Zbf Pours almost black No real foam Not much smell Too much carbo . Metallic bitterness , bit sweet , rather weak

Tried on 13 Sep 2015 at 12:12


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Kroontje’s first beer, with medium thick, lacing, off-white, moussy head and clear, beautiful, warm copper colour with calm sparkling; hazy with deposit. Aroma strikes me with FFF (freshly fermented farmland) at first, almost a smell of menure, initially covering more pleasant impressions of hazelnut, raspberry, vague coffee grounds, burnt wood, dried leaves, dates, dry earth, caramel, orange peel, hints of raisins and liquorice, but some faint DMS (cooked cabbage) as well. Some candied sweetness in the onset, candied figs, passion fruit, orange freshness with a tart, oud bruin-like quality to it, a bit sourish; medium carbo, smooth and supple, bit resinous mouthfeel, more powdery with deposit, malty middle phase of caramelly malt sweetness with a toasted edge, stretching deep into the finish, and so does the initial, somewhat drying tartness; a deep, brief but structuring hop bitterishness appears as well but the fruit sweetness lasts longer. Estery but still fairly ’clean’, rounded dubbel, with an apparently deliberate sourishness (so the brewer claims), which lends it a kind of oud bruin (Flemish red) character, but clearly lacking the finesse and depth of the true oud bruins, I must add. Interesting but not well executed, with a manure-like quality to the aroma which kept bothering me throughout.

Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2015 at 07:44


4.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5

07/08/2015 @home – 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck. Very clear blonde, small head, strange aroma, something medicinal, also in the taste., yeast, some sourness, very strange and unpleasant..

Tried from Bottle on 27 Aug 2015 at 02:12


5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

330 ml. bottle sampled @ 20ste Zomerbierfestival. Orange, little head. Nose is strongly metallic, white sugar with plenty of plastic & cheap apple juice. Taste is chemicals, plastic, apple juice, hugely sweet, odd taste akin to a mix of caramel & plastic,… Body is overly fizzy & comes across as being overly chemical. Not a fan at all.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2015 at 11:47


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

Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, light citrusy and crisp hoppy. Smooth fruity, citrusy and crisp hoppy. Bitter and light fruity finish.

Tried on 11 May 2015 at 09:55