De Kromme Haring

Brewpub in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated Venue: Brewpub De Kromme Haring

Established in 2014

Contact
Europalaan 2C, Utrecht, 3526KS, Netherlands
Description
De Kromme Haring is all about surprising, well-made, delicious and drinkable beers.

Biologist and homebrewer Stephen Grigg travelled from America via the UK to settle in the Netherlands as (homebrewery) De Kromme Haring. After meeting beer-afficionado Gijs van Wiechen, who invited him to brew the anniversary beer for infamous bar-dive Kafe Belgie, the two decided to "go pro" in 2014.

After the first tentative, educational and sometimes frustrating steps in contractbrewing they quickly decided that they needed their own system and place to pursue their aproach to brewing. This cunning plan came to fruition when they opened their very own brewpub in september 2016, with the brewery installed in december 2016.

With over 20 years of brewing experience, we have cultivated a deep love for English malts and American hops. However, we love yeast even more and believe that the quality of fermentation is at the core of all well-made beer. Knowing how to work with many different kinds of yeast, both "clean" and "wild", is what sets us apart.

Our brewery and yeast lab allows us to experiment with lesser known and used yeast strains in our brewery. Part of our brewery is even dedicated to stainless steel fermenting with wild yeasts like Brettanomyces and/or blended cultures, creating surprising and delicious flavours.

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6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Mitra Bunnik, BB 11-2019. Almost clear copper color, big rocky head. Aroma is stacked with spices and a bit of toffee and toasted malts. Very spicy in taste as well, bit too high on carbonation, which together with the spices makes the beer quite dry. Slight sweet toast and marmalade. Even though it is heavy on the spices, it doesnt seem out of balance. Enjoyable.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2018 at 17:47

8.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle @ home. Clear slightly orangy mostly golden color, medium sized white head that lasts for a short while. Aroma shoots out of the bottle and out of my glass: heavily hopped with fruity, tropical fruit and piney hops. Awesome! Flavor is lightly malts, fruit hops, resinous and piney just the right amount to balance out very well and connect with the fruity hop flavors as well. Moderately bitter, decent body, easy drinkable, soft carbonation. Great job, very well done!
Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2018 at 22:03

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Kromme Haring Twisted Kipper (by De Kromme Haring):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

17/II/18 - on tap @ Frontaal tasting room (Breda) - BB: n/a (2018-185)

Slightly hazy orange beer, small creamy off-white head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: quite some tropical fruit, passion fruit, ripe mango, bit of pineapple, canned peaches. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, tropical fruits, citrus, orange peel, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: malty, lots of grapefruit, hoppy, bit grassy, very bitter and dry finish.
Tried from Draft on 17 Feb 2018 at 19:07

7.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Kromme Haring Les Perles Du Homard (by De Kromme Haring):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

17/II/18 - on tap @ Frontaal tasting room (Breda) - BB: n/a (2018-184)

Clear golden yellow beer, big creamy white head, pretty stable, lots of very nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, lots of grains, bit sweet, caramel, bit fruit, some tropical fruits, cow fodder. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet malts, lot and lots of banana peel, bitter, some caramel, lots of yeast. Aftertaste: green banana.
Tried from Draft on 17 Feb 2018 at 19:07

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33cl bottle from a trade with ShivanDragon, many thanks. A slightly hazy reddish amber beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of speculatios, cinnamon, christmas spices. Taste of sweet christmas spices, Lebkuchen, cinnamon, herbs, crazy!
Tried from Bottle on 17 Feb 2018 at 17:26

4.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Stark gewürziger Antrunk nach Lebkuchen. Anis, milde Süße, spritzig, weich herb, süffig. Die Gewürznoten sind dabei übertrieben, minimal schokoladig. Weniger ist mehr. 9/7/8/7//7
Tried on 17 Feb 2018 at 17:26

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Thanks to Mallorn for the EU Local Swap 1/2018
33cl bottle
Black color, light beige head with good retention, some lacing. Aroma has notes of roasted malts, smoked meat. Flavor is slightly bittery, high prsence of smoke notes, slightly burnt caramel. Final is smoky, burnt malts. Dry mouthfeel.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2018 at 23:02

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 12 Feb 2018 at 00:33

6/10
Tried from Draft on 11 Feb 2018 at 22:16

8/10
Tried from Draft on 10 Feb 2018 at 21:14