De Kromme Haring
Brewpub
in
Utrecht,
Utrecht,
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated Venue: Brewpub De Kromme Haring
Established in 2014
Contact
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.
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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can at home. Almost black with big chocomousse head. Lots of roasted malts, ash, dark chocolate, earthy, coffee, soft hops. Over medium sweet and bitter. Over medium bodied with a bit dry and thin finish. Great beer, but it seems way more roasted than hoppy to me.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 19:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Can at home. Murky orangeish golden pour with a thin head. Nose is orange zest, mandarin, passion fruit, some grass, candied apricot. Taste-wise it’s quite underwhelming, some citruses also show, but it’s stale somehow, it fades into nothing, and the body is also quite thin. Got some nice aspects, but not very convincing.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:06
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Tap at the Van Moll fest, courtesy of the Kromme Haring crew. Nice Belgian pale with a funky twist, estery, citric, with fruity brett expressions, light, refreshing, chuggable.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:06
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6
Can shared with the chefs, Advent Box nr 3. Pleasantly hoppy, sessionable pale, with notes of citruses, grass and herbal touches. Works as intended.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:02
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6
Can at the brewpub at Michiel’s bachelors. Crisp, lightly citric, somewhat grassy, with a hint of malt sweetness in the background. Goes down extremely easily
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:01
6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 10
Overall 5
On tap at the Brewpub. Ez nagyon mellé ment sajnos, borzasztó jellegtelen, lapos, vizes, mintha az alapanyagok fele kimaradt volna belőle valahogy
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap at the brewpub at Michiel’s bachelor. Decent sessionable NE, despite the astringency and the very prominent presence of Talus, which I’m admittedly not a fan of.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Tap at the brewpub. Could use more yeast expression, and it’s a touch too thin and undercarbed, otherwise pretty ok
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Tap at the brewpub at Michiel’s bachelors. Ez meglehetosen rendben van, deligyumis barackle, kicsit fuves, kicsit zold, fasza suru. Az elso benyomast javithatta egyebkent, hogy nem tudtam hogy dupla es kifejezetten respektaltam hogy milyen intenziv a sor, de igy retrospektiv sem veszit az ertekebol azert
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 5.5
Can at the brewpub. Lecsusszant pillanatok alatt, de az emlékezetestől azért meglehetősen messze van
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:01