Brouwerij Serafijn (prev. Microbrouwerij Achilles)
Client Brewer
in Heist-op-den-Berg,
Antwerp,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Huisbrouwerij Achilles
- Out of business
Established in 1999
In 2015 Achilles became part of Caupona bvba (of the Prik & Tik stores in Heist-op-den-Berg and Herselt). The brewery is now called ''Brouwerij Serafijn.'' That is the new company in Heist that houses the Serafijn beers. The former microbrewery in Itegem has been dismantled.
The beer is now brewed at the Pirlot brewery in Zandhoven.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught @ Zythos Bier Festival 2008, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Unclear orange color with a average to large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, toasted, fruity, moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, light banana. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (010308)
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Pale muddy orange with a white head. Sweet fruity aroma, with some brett and coriander showing up. Dry, brett filled flavour, ending with a little hops.
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33 cL bottle@fonefan/Brugmansia’s Cnudde tasting. Pours hazy yellow to orange with a bubbly white head. Mild spiced aroma, light brett-ish note. Flavour is mellow yeasty with a light spice note and a lingering caramel malt. Has a light brett note to it. Ends somewhat dry.
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ZBF08. Clear amber colour. Big stable creamy tan head. Sweet flavour, some alcohol, a little phenols. Sweet and malty after a while, tastes a bit strong. Low to medium carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours deep amber into a Trappist glass. Offwhite micro head recedes leaving no lacing to cover the surface. Yeast and malt aromas. Crisp and yeasty with a slight pepper finish.
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ZBF2008: From tap. Pours clear orange with a dense light tan head. Aroma is mild spiced. Flavour is light phenol and spiced. Mild caramel malt base. Ends with a light yeasty flavour and more phenol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at ZBF 08. Gold, slight haze, thin beige head. It’s a pretty decent tripel, does what you would expect with some white stone/tropical fruit, Belgian yeast.
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On tap at ZBF 08. Gold/green with lasting beige head. It’s a pretty good blond beer, some decent hop, some creaminess in mouth. Decent blond with a bit of perfume.
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Bottle: Poured a murky orange brown with a medium off white head. Aroma is fruit with a sweetness to it. Taste is a sweet fruit with malts, it also had a slight bitter bite to the finish that made it lively to the tongue.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
2008 Zythos Bier Festival, Belgium. Bright yellow colour. Aroma is sweet, some candy present. The candy sweetness also comes through in the flavour. Low carbonation. Clean aftertaste.