Martens

Commercial Brewery in Bocholt, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 1758

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Reppelerweg 1, Bocholt, 3950, Belgium
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Description
Brewery Martens has been in business for 260 years. Throughout our rich history, which remains embedded in our native town of Bocholt to this very day, the brewery has always remained in hands of the Martens family. Yet, while we put great store by our family history, all eight generations of the Martens family have also continuously been driven by innovation and state-of-the-art processes, which is what has made us into one of the most modern and innovative breweries in the country today.

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5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
An orange beer with a white head. Both the aroma and flavor are sweet with straw being most dominant.
Tried on 10 Apr 2005 at 13:58

4.4/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
2004 bottle. Nose is flowery, light sugars, spring water...... Roman baths..... Color is remarkably clear, with a slight hint of light, light, light peach. Small head, rapidly dissipating. True to style, it’s got that weird, low-carb sugar flavor to it, what is that flavor??? Highly filtered, there’s not much to this, but perhaps some yeast, or maybe I’m imagining that? Very simple but inoffensive, to me...... Extra-light bodied.......... good water substitute. . .
Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2005 at 13:29

2.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 3
Canned. Clear golden. Fruity and grassy. Thin. Papery finish. Sub-par supermarket brew.
Tried from Can on 27 Jan 2005 at 05:45

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4
A golden beer with a huge creamy white head. The aroma is sweet straw with notes of malt. The flavor is of grain and straw, with a quite distinct hop note in the end - a quite crisp flavor, but the body is thin. Not bad, just boring.
Tried on 19 Sep 2004 at 16:04

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Canned. Golden colour. Sweet, fruity and sweaty with mellow mouthfeel and grassy finish. Pilsener? don’t think so.
Tried from Can on 07 Sep 2004 at 12:52

2/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 2 Overall 2
Canned. Golden colour, small head. Metallic and sweet with mellow, sharp mouthfeel. Useless.
Tried from Can on 07 Sep 2004 at 12:50

3.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Thnx Skortila, for bringing a can from the local supermarket. I expected the worst, but it was not too bad. Classic German Pilsener is the best description.
Tried from Can on 16 Aug 2004 at 12:33

3.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 3
A hazy yellow beer with a beutiful head. The flavor is simple: sweet malty. The flavor is sour, as if brewing cereal has been used, but also malt sweet with notes of metal and straw. I’m not having this again - a bad pils.
Tried on 07 Jun 2004 at 15:03

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
(a bit aged sample) Yellow-straw coloured; fluffy disparate head. Very grainy nose, sweet. Taste of sweet grain & malt, even a bit chaff. Even when no visible carbonation, quite prickly - nearly fizzy feeling. Palate is fruity, pineapple like. Medium bodied, quite dry. Brewery Martens have a problem. When I started tasting beer, no specialised pub or wholesaler would be out of Sezoens. Nowadays, it is a rarity, so that even a very special beerhall could only sell me Sezoens which was already slightly overdate. Why? Until Germany changed its law concerning one-way bottlings, they were too busy selling the Germans canned Pilsener under every imaginable name, and their top-fermenting specialities were neglected... Now the border is closed and they have to relearn selling Sezoens. Oh yes, Sezoens is NOT a Saison.
Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2004 at 16:36

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 4
Blond very bright body, white frothy head, which fully diminishes, fairly lacing. Hoppy aroma, citruslike. Light sweet-bitter initial flavour. Bitter finish.
Tried on 28 Jan 2004 at 13:16