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

Golden colour, white head. Aroma of hops, malts and fruity yeast. Bitter flavour, fruity, pronounced hops. Dry and bitter finish.
Not bad, quite fruity and pleasant, though a bit middle-of-the-road.
(Draught -I thought- @ Brugs Bier Festival 2013)

Tried on 05 Feb 2013 at 08:09


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33 cl. bottle sampled @ Brugs Bier Festival 2013. Bryggja? Man that sounds more Scandinavian than Flemish to me. Pale golden with a white head. Smell is floral, cereal, white sugar, sweet bread,… Taste is sweet BE touch dough yeast, banana, white sugar & bread, light floral, hay, touch malts. Light. Once more too inoffensive & bland for me.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2013 at 06:50


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

Sample @ Brugge Bierfest ’13. Dorée, col blanc. Retrouve ici tout le style triple surtout dans la levure. Le tout reste herbacé sur des houblons nobles donnant de fines notes citronnées. Malts donnent un profil caramel/grillé léger surpassé par la levure-ester et houblons.

Tried on 03 Feb 2013 at 04:51


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild phenolic and toasted caramelish. Light spiced. Medium dry phenolic. Bitter and light toasted malt finish. Bitter and slight phenolic finish.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2013 at 17:57


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draught Fast gone whitish head, with some shards of lace; clear yellow-golden beer. Rainwater, herbal, grassy nose. Sweet-herbal flavour, cooked lemonbalm, bit soapy flavours. No alcohol discernible and seems certainly not very attenuated. Bit yeasty streak. Light, weak - a tripel? Whatever this is, a tripel is just what was aimed at.

Tried on 02 Feb 2013 at 11:55


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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Bryggja Tripel (by Bryggja):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

Note: This rating is a mixture of two separate ratings, one from tap, which was too young, and one from bottle, which has had the time to develop and ripen a bit.

Original rating :

2/II/13 - on tap @ Brugs Bierfestival 2013 (2013-117)

Ar: 6, Ap: 4, T: 6, P: 3, O: 10, Total: 2.9

Note: the next day I sampled the beer from the bottle (without taking notes), but it was significantly better than from the tap. I brought a bottle home with me, which will be rerated in a few weeks/months, when the yeast will have had the time to work it's magic.

Clear blond beer, very smooth creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet fruity esters, some banana. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, yeasty, bready, some banana peel. Aftertaste: bit metallic, pretty bitter, dry, bit grassy, hoppy and bitter yet pretty straightforward and blunt.

New rating

10/V/13 - 33cl bottle @ John's place - BB: X/2014 (2013-xxx) Thanks to Kurt for the bottle!

Ar: 7, Ap: 3, T: 7, P: 3, O: 14, Total: 3.4

Little cloudy blond beer, small creamy white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet, ripe fruits, melons, bubble gum, fruit cocktail in cans. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citric start (from the carbon maybe?), bit fruity, sweet, more citrus, bitter hops, slightly sour. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, yeast, lemony, bit soapy, citrus, bitter ending.

Tried from Draft on 02 Feb 2013 at 10:14