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.
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample @ 6de Gents Bierfestival 2015. Brune foncée, qcq bulles à la surface tirant vers le moka. Arôme offre son lot de barrique et surtout de tourbé qui est très dominant sans en être rebutant. Le malt chocolaté et caramel perce en rétro. Palais est malté, plein de tourbe indiquant que l’on est en effet en terre d’Islay. Le tout garde cependant une certaine douceur moka et dont on retrouve une petite touche Emelisse. Se laisse apprécier à condition d’aimer le tourbé sans compromis.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2015
at 09:39
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sample @ 6de Gents Bierfestival 2015. Orangée sur un léger trouble, col fin blanc. Arôme met bien en avant le pamplemousse avec un petit bouquet houblonné arrivant en rétro. Malt également là mais servant plus d’appui au fruit. Palais offre un fruité superbement bien placé et venant presque plus de l’orange sanguine avec une fine touche surette du pamplemousse en fin de bouche. Le tout est léger, sec au niveau malt et une fine note cara-pâle
Tried
on 23 Aug 2015
at 08:49
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Thx! for sharing) Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ Gents Bierfestival 2015. Very dark brown, black, not much in the way of head. Nose is huge phenolic peat, medicinal, raw & nothing else, medicine & iodine. Taste is soy sauce, oily, umami followed by huge raw peat, very earthly, medicinal, almost like eating dirt mixed with peat or pure raw peat,… Low carbonation & soy sauce body. No way even to tell what the base beer tasted like, pure overkill for mem.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2015
at 03:56
9.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
(Thx! for sharing) Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ Gents Bierfestival 2015. Deep hazy amber, little head. Nose is fruity, cereal, big grapefruit, pomelo, lots of fruit skin, tad sweetness, pine, juicy. Taste is big grapefruit, peel, orange peel, pomelo, some blue cheese (Sorachi Ace), cereal, bitter dry grass, juicy, massive fruit with some blue cheese. Very creamy dry bitter. This one is really up my alley. Finally a beer that lives up to the ridiculously high expectations I had for this brewery, it is an IPA, interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2015
at 03:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home, orange beer, small/medium head, aroma is citrus, grapefruit. Taste is the same, bitter dry aftertaste, very good
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2015
at 14:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Kees Pink Grapefruit IPA (by Brouwerij Kees):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
22/VIII/15 - 33cl bottle @ 6de Gents Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2015-1106)
Clear orange beer, small creamy irregular head, unstable, bit adhesive. aroma: very fruity, pineapple, exotic fruits, passion fruit, sweet mango, little soapy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, sweet, some caramel, bitter, pretty dry. Aftertaste: malty, grassy, dry bitterness, fruity, some exotic fruits, passion fruit, pretty bitter, some grapefruit, but not as much as you would have expected from the name...
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
22/VIII/15 - 33cl bottle @ 6de Gents Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2015-1106)
Clear orange beer, small creamy irregular head, unstable, bit adhesive. aroma: very fruity, pineapple, exotic fruits, passion fruit, sweet mango, little soapy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, sweet, some caramel, bitter, pretty dry. Aftertaste: malty, grassy, dry bitterness, fruity, some exotic fruits, passion fruit, pretty bitter, some grapefruit, but not as much as you would have expected from the name...
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2015
at 14:11
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cloudy yellow small white head mild aroma mild hoppy. Sweet malty and a good dose of bitter hops.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2015
at 13:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark chestnut brown pour with a creamy beige head, aroma has malt loaf plus some dark fruits, taste has light toast, some dark fruits a hint of caramac, some bread.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2015
at 13:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black, beige head. Aroma of porto wine, brown sugar, some smoky band aid note. Smoky, peaty flavour, ash, light coffee. Malty finish, caramel, ash, lots of peat.
(from taster glass @ Gents Bier Festival 2015)
(from taster glass @ Gents Bier Festival 2015)
Tried
on 22 Aug 2015
at 10:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at gent beer festival. Pours black, nose is peaty, chocolate, smoky, wood, taste is similar, dry, little thin for the abv.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2015
at 08:18