Brouwerij Kees
Microbrewery
in
Middelburg,
Zeeland,
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated Venue: Brouwerij Kees
Established in 2015
Contact
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.
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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can at home. Pours black, nose is huge ginger, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, tonka, taste is similar. 8/8/8/7/7
Tried
on 02 May 2026
at 11:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home. Pours black, nose is peaty, medicinal, chocolate, toffee, taste is similar, very medicinal side of islay, with cocoa and chocolate. 8
Tried
on 02 May 2026
at 11:14
9.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 9.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
For me, this one was a great experience, a fantastic beer alone or with a chocolate or pie. Perfect sweetness, not disgusting, full aroma of toffee, vanilla, syrupy, some roasted malt, discreet hop, a nectar at 11.5 degrees that you drink it like milk, 17.11.23
Tried
from Can
from
Sterk Avondverkoop
on 01 May 2026
at 19:24
9.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 9.5
Texture 9
Overall 9.5
Great medicine to find your bed at night, great invention to enjoy this crazy lazy with a powerful bomb of different aromas of roasty malt, chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, complex and boozy, coffee, discreet bitterness, cocoa, to drink with pleasure, 09.02.24
Tried
from Can
from
Sterk Avondverkoop
on 01 May 2026
at 17:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Can at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla, marzipan, taste is chocolate, roasted, bitter, vanilla. 8/8/8/7/8
Tried
on 01 May 2026
at 10:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, toffee, toasted, taste is similar, liquorice, quite easy going for the abv. 8
Tried
on 01 May 2026
at 10:33
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is caramel, berries, liquorice, meaty, taste is rich, sweet caramel, raspberry jam, floral, tart. Very nice. 8/9/9/9/8
Tried
on 01 May 2026
at 09:29
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at nicks. Pours clear ruby, nose is berries, caramel, toffee, stewed fruit, taste is berries, caramel, marzipan, sweet. 8
Tried
on 30 Apr 2026
at 12:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
(Draft at Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 1 March 2026) Golden colour with greenish hints. Frothy white head. Fruity, spicy nose with bread, herbs, grapefruit, barnyard and hints of funk. Fruity, spicy taste with notes of white bread, citrus, grapefruit, herbs, some barnyard and a balanced herbal/citric bitterness in the finish. Fairly funky saison. Interesting. Nice one.
Tried
from Draft
at
Proeflokaal Arendsnest
on 29 Apr 2026
at 20:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml can. Pours a dark brown with full tan head. Aromas of milk chocolate, fruity coffee, and sharp roasted malts. Flavors of dark chocolate cake, nuts, a bit of vanilla and roasted malts.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2026
at 22:56