Bryggja

Microbrewery in Moerkerke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2013

Contact
Moerkerkebrug 3, Moerkerke, 8340, Belgium
Description
It started as a hobby. In 2012, four brewery friends decided to join their tasty tripel in the Brouwland Beer Competition. From a selection of more than 90 beers, our Bryggja was voted the best hobby beer in Belgium by a professional jury. The start of a great adventure! We took this opportunity with both hands and chose a name, bottle, a suitable design for our label ... With the Bruges Beer Festival 2013, our beer was launched. We brewed externally and the sales went beyond all expectations. The following year our 2nd beer "Amuse" came on the market. A spicy beer that is very suitable as an aperitif beer. At the end of 2014, the decision was made to fully go ahead and start our own brewery. We found a building in Moerkerke and in the spring of 2015 the brewing installation was installed. We only work with Belgian hops and can therefore also use the official logo. Our beer is a traditional product, with us no extracts, no flavor or foam enhancers. We like to keep it pure nature.

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5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

New beer conceived as an IPA, a term which is more and more becoming loosely used for just ’hoppy’ pale beers in Belgium, thereby losing its true meaning. This one had a firm, creamy, off-white head and orangey blonde colour, hazy with yeast bit floating around. Aroma has dried orange peel, hay, earth and unripe peach, but is completely ruined by a very strong presence of butyric acid (stale sweat and rancid butter). Restrained fruity taste, sour berries and pineapple, yeasty and grainy, slight salty accent, cheesy and floral hops in the finish, bittering and quite long, with some warming alcohol. Not well balanced, lacking the aromatic qualities of a true IPA and above all, ridden with the very off-putting odour of butyric acid, this was probably the least pleasant beer I tasted at ZBF 2015. Update: had this again at BBF 2016 where it still had a whiff of rancid butter to it, but far less vigorously than at ZBF; still it could do with a fresher, more elegant aromatic hop bouquet. This rating is an average of both.

Tried on 26 Apr 2015 at 08:22


Tried on 25 Apr 2015 at 18:23


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

16/04/2015 @home. Sample of 33cl bottle from Bi erhalle Deconinck, Vichte. Hazy golden with massive white head. Aroma : fruits, malts, yeast, spices. Taste : bitter hops, citrus, spices, some sweetness

Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2015 at 00:19


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33 cl bottle. Pours clodu yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, light yeasty phenolic. Bitter, toaste and slight fruity. Dry and bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2015 at 12:11


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is toasted malty. Light breadish and malty. Bitter, herbal, citrusy and toasted malty. Dry and bitter, toasted far finish.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2015 at 12:10


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

33cl bottle at De Bierboom, Brugge on 5th Feb 2015. The original beer was brewed in a 20 litre kettle at a craft and produce fair, then dry hopped back at De Bierboom. I got to try that at as well, split between Rudy, my wife and me. The commercial brew uses only two hop varieties, the first brew three. All the ingredients are Belgian. The pour was slightly hazy orange affair with a thin head. Plenty of hops in the aroma and dry taste, not too sure why others are scoring it so low: I thought it interesting and different for a Belgian IPA, even though the initial brew a little better.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2015 at 18:06


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

Triple-B stands for Brugge, Bryggja & Bierboom. One of the guys who commissioned this beer, described it in an interview as a bitter beer. Thanks! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ BBF 2014. Hazy orange, little white head. Nose is sweet honey, malt, caramel, sugar,… Taste is metallic, dusty old cereal, agave, something, rotting bitter aftertaste, plenty of malt,… Body is a touch sticky,… Not really what an IPA should be & not really a very enjoyable beer in my opinion. I know that they were probably aiming for a mainstream audience but this takes it too far.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Feb 2015 at 04:56


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Bierboom / Bryggja Triple-B IPA (by Bryggja):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5

7/II/15 - 33cl bottle @ Brugs Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2015-147) Thanks to the Belgian RB crew for sharing today's beers!

Clear copper orange beer, small aery off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very sweet, sugary, bit spicy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: chemical bitterness, soapy, little fruity, very bitter. Aftertaste: dry, chemical bitterness, medicinal, little fruity, bit resinous. More like a bitter tripel than an ipa...

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2015 at 13:12


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Vinterslaget på Østersøen, Sønderborg. Pours clear golden with airy but stable white head. Clear aroma of fruit, flowers and hops, with some estery notes. Bitter, hoppy flavour, with sweetish notes of fruit and malt and some floral touches. Bitter, rough and citric aftertaste. Warming alcohold presence. Okay but not revolutionary.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2015 at 17:26


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Clear golden, thick white head. Spicy, yeasty aroma. Fruity, light spicy flavour. Fluffy mouthfeel, light and bittersweet finish.

Tried on 09 Jan 2015 at 17:24