St. Bernardus Brouwerij

Regional Brewery in Watou, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1946

Contact
Trappistenweg 23, Watou, 8978, Belgium
Description
In the heart of the West Flemish hop district, we brew a truly inspiring beer that fancies a lot of beer lovers. Special top-fermented dark and light beers have been produced in our establishment ever since 1946, and they are acclaimed as the best in the world. Visitors can stay overnight in Guesthouse Brouwershuis and have the opportunity to join a guided tour, rent an e-bike and sample to their heart's delight our delicious beers in our brand new rooftop bar ‘Bar Bernard’, offering marvelous 360° panoramic views of the area. This bar makes part of the new visitors’ centre we’ve opened in August 2018. And to top it all off, in the brand new beer shop visitors can buy their ‘heavenly nectar’ to take home.

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7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

330 mL bottle. Pours a hazy, yellow color, with a smaller, foamy, white head. The nose is orange peel, heavy coriander, caramel, juniper, and biscuit. Sweet and yeasty, with a fairly big, resinous bitterness. Medium body, sticky, and chewy. Nice, estery, and hoppy.

Tried from Bottle at Lincoln Fill Station and Home Brew on 09 Sep 2025 at 20:46

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Draught @ Fox & Hounds Sønderborg on Øllets Dag 2025. Pours nearly clear straw with small white head. Clear aroma of malt amd fruit, with estery touches and notes of paper. Bitter flavour of hops, with notes of citrus and malt, and estery and fruity touches. Malty and bitter aftertaste. Reasonable, but quite fruity for the style.

Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2025 at 10:43

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

Draught. Lagery, papery aroma. Hazy dark golden colour. Small stable white head. The flavour is very bready. Satiating. Also has a little papery notes. Medium bitterness.

Tried on 06 Sep 2025 at 10:42


6

Tried from Can on 31 Aug 2025 at 23:28


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

From Manayunk Foodery: gold with white head. Aroma is bready, weirdly yeasty, weird Belgian malty heaviness. Pretty buttery and spicy. Sweetish. Easy.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Aug 2025 at 13:15

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

Bottle at home picked up from HOTM. A light hazed brushed gold, straw coloured pour with a lasting sticky white head. Aroma is semi sweet, little buttery, biscuit, straw, wet grass, damp hay, Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rustic grains, buttery biscuit, some stewed fruit, grass, little flabby, alcohol bite, Palate is semi sweet, light tang, spicy , highish carbonation. Not great.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2025 at 20:55

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7.8
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home picked up from HOTM. A almost clear golden yellow coloured pour with a lovely ricky white head. Aroma is Nice Belgian yeast character, spicy, hints of clove, straw, stewed apple, light floral. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, semi crisp, spicy, clove, straw, rustic grains, some stewed fruit, light caramel, Alcohol bite in the finish. Palate is semi sweet, with a crisp finish, high spritzy carbonation. Some hot alocohol

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2025 at 20:23


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at the loom las palmas.
Yeasty , fruity , citrud fruity.
Flavor is smooth belgian yeasty with butterscotch malts. Totally weird beer but very very tasty with the belgian yeasts lifting the malts to a whole new level

Tried from Bottle at Loom Beers & Coctails on 27 Aug 2025 at 22:43

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours translucent gold with a large foamy white head. Aroma is citrus/bready/spicy. Medium body. It's fairly dry and at least moderately bitter. Flavor is bready, citrus and Noble grass/spice. The spice lingers and lingers. Very nice beer.

Tried from Bottle at The Davis Beer Shoppe on 24 Aug 2025 at 01:39

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6.5

Tried from Draft at Bierhaus on 22 Aug 2025 at 19:52

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