Brouwerij Kees

Microbrewery in Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated Venue: Brouwerij Kees

Established in 2015

Contact
Voltaweg 16, Middelburg, 4338 PS, Netherlands
Description
Life's too short for boring, middle of the road beers. Craft Brewery Kees! stands for tasty, fruity, hoppy flavours and strong dark ales, but there'll always be that 'twist' . That special 'something' that make his beers stand out.

Owner and brewer Kees Bubberman started his brewing career in 2007 at Emelisse, a small regional brewery in Kamperland, Zeeland. Within a couple of years Emelisse became a household name among craft breweries worldwide, thanks to the by British and American beer styles inspired ales, IPA's, strong porters, stouts that Kees Bubberman brewed. Never afraid of trying something new and relying on his experience as a restaurant chef he created more than 30 new beers, including an IPA with Earl Grey tea, barrel aged porters en stouts and strong porters and stouts with coffee. Kees was ahead of his time with experimental flavours like these.

In 2014 Kees Bubberman decided to start his own brewery in his hometown Middelburg. Thankful for the opportunities Emelisse gave him, he felt that it was time to go his own way. Brewery Kees! started in January 2015 and within a year his delicious IPA's, strong porters, Russian Imperial stouts and barrel aged barley wines, porters en stouts found their way in the (beer-)world.

Kees keeps on creating new beers and searching for new tastes, sometimes following and sometimes setting trends.

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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Beerdome. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee, sweet cherries and almond. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. Oily. 170326

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2026 at 20:00


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Good but fairly standard Quadrupel, not that woody actually. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Sweet malt with caramel, spicy yeast, dried fruit, candy sugar, raisins. Medium sweet flavour. Elegant.

Tried from Can from SpeciaalBierPakket.nl on 15 Mar 2026 at 23:50


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

Can at home shared with Laura. Opaque unclear brown color, small off-white to beige head. Aroma and flavor are malts, caramalts, wood I guess? Although I wouldn't have said that if it hadn't been on the label. I'd say I get a touch of raisins before I'd say wood infused notes. Solid beer.

Tried on 14 Mar 2026 at 23:37


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Roasted malt aroma with notes of coffee, chocolate, caramel, sugar, lightly some vanilla. Mild to medium sweet, light to moderate bitter. Medium to full body.

Tried from Can from Drankenhandel Leiden on 14 Mar 2026 at 00:54


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, meaty, caramel, roasted, some dark fruit, taste is sweet toffee, chocolate, fruity, caramel, meaty. 8/9/8/8/8

Tried on 13 Mar 2026 at 19:34


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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can at home. Pours deep ruby, nose is caramel, blackcurrant, raspberry, honey, taste is sweet toffee, honey, berries, caramel, little smoky. 8

Tried on 13 Mar 2026 at 19:07


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is caramel, vanilla, coconut, bourbon, raisin, berries, taste is sweet toffee, caramel, fruity, coconut, vanilla. 8/9/9/8/8

Tried on 13 Mar 2026 at 19:02


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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, burnt toffee, roasted, meaty, taste is sweet toffee, prune, chocolate, caramel, roasted. 4

Tried on 13 Mar 2026 at 19:01


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Can at home. Opaque black color, full sized brown colored head. Aroma is malts, dark malts, soft coffee notes. Flavor is malts, roast, some iron, dark malts, nicely bitter. Lovely. A straightforward RIS that's simply just good. In a world of adjuct stouts this is a sigh of relief and joy. Delicious.

Tried on 11 Mar 2026 at 22:31


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

Not a cardoche pour les mioches, this one is powerful and for me it means more an imperial stout that an export porter, warm alcohol, subtle, a bomb of aromas in your mouth with roasted malt, coffee, delightful note of cacao, chocolate, hop, 12.01.21

Tried from Bottle from Sterk Avondverkoop on 11 Mar 2026 at 20:00

gave a cheers!