Brouwerij Het Anker

Commercial Brewery in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Brouwerij Huyghe
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1872

Contact
Guido Gezellenlaan 49, Mechelen, 2800, Belgium
+32 15 287 141
info@hetanker.be
Subsidiaries
Brouwerij Het Anker owns 1 brewery:
Description
Brewery Het Anker is one of the oldest breweries in Belgium (1471). In its current form the brewery exists since 1872 when the Van Breedam family bought the brewery and built a modern brewery with a steam boiler. Nowadays it is still a family brewery that has been brewing beer in the Groot Begijnhof in Mechelen for 5 generations. Over the years, Het Anker grew into an internationally acclaimed brewery. The old recipes are still the basis of the brewing process and a variety of hops and herbs flavor the beers.

The brewhouse consists of three kettles from 1946 and a wort filter from 2014. The kettles are made of red copper and are “hammered” by hand into the existing shapes. The capacity is 3000 kg deposit. In the past, brews of 250 to 300 hl of lager were produced with this. Today we brew 110 hl per brew since the current beers are of a much higher density.
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Sloefmans

6.8
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Gouden Carolus Ambrio (6.5%) from Brouwerij Het Anker 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Mechelsen Bruynen with bottle-conditioning. Dark golden-brown, yeast in suspension. Nose of dark malts, raisins and madeira or crème de noix. Fairly bitter at first, from roasted malts, than fading into biscuit-like sweetness. Quite fizzy. Bitterness returns after a while, but less pleasing as before.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2002 at 13:39

caesar

7.8
caesar (10848) reviewed Gouden Carolus Tripel from Brouwerij Het Anker 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Rerate: Bottle from Mitra Bunnik, BB Febr 2017, large sample. Clear golden color, huge rocky slight off-white head. Aroma is quite sweet for a triple, lots of orange peel, slight coriander, slight peppery yeast. Soft bitterness in taste, again lots of orange peel, quite some sweetness. Actually getting close to Karmeliet Tripel with its loads of orange peel and being on the fruity sweet side for a tripel. Silly I haven’t tried this one before a lot as I’m a huge fan of Karmeliet. Lovely stuff. Upgrading to 3.9. Original rate from 2002: Decent triple by Brouwerij het Anker, though nothing special. Tasted like the Triple Toison d’Or, also from Het Anker. 3.4

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2002 at 05:23

fiulijn

7.8
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Gouden Carolus Classic from Brouwerij Het Anker 24 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Dark amber ale. Malt aroma, spicy, fruity. Sweet, strong malt flavour; this brew still needs some aging. The palate is equilibrate.

Tried on 16 Jan 2002 at 16:41

caesar

8.2
caesar (10848) reviewed Gouden Carolus Classic from Brouwerij Het Anker 24 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Red brown coloured. Malty aroma. Full taste. Two thumbs up!.................

Tried on 28 Nov 2001 at 08:38

caesar

6.8
caesar (10848) reviewed Triple Toison D Or from Brouwerij Het Anker 24 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

I couldnt say i thought this triple was rather special. ....................

Tried on 16 Oct 2001 at 04:22

Oakes

5.4
Oakes (33493) reviewed Gouden Carolus Classic from Brouwerij Het Anker 25 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Rich, dark Belgian ale. Strong dark fruit notes, and probably too much yeast for my tastes.

Tried on 27 Dec 2000 at 14:53

blackisle

7.5
blackisle (5698) ticked Triple Toison D Or from Brouwerij Het Anker 37 years ago

Backlog. Note says 'erg lekker'. Drank this end of the eighties, from bottle, probably at Gollem's.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 1988 at 11:00

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