About
Richard Ootjers, Owner of Station 1280 and Thom Morrell are about to start up Antwerp’s first craft brewery in the centre of the city.
They plan to launch Uncharted Brew Co. in Antwerp’s Oudaan area at the Winkelcentrum, a small shopping centre known locally as the “beehive” for its hexagonal pattern and which sits at the base of Antwerp’s police headquarters.
That’s where Station 1280 moved to from the city’s central railway station in October 2020. The bottle shop and taproom had outgrown the cramped quarters at Antwerpen-Centraal, Ootjers said in an interview with the Beer Idiots.
At Oudaan, Ootjers now has more space, and a terrace where drinkers can hang out and perhaps even listen to some music in the open area.
And then there is the idea for the brewery in the space next door. He joined up with Morrell, who homebrews as BRWBRD, to create Uncharted Brew Co.
They plan to launch Uncharted Brew Co. in Antwerp’s Oudaan area at the Winkelcentrum, a small shopping centre known locally as the “beehive” for its hexagonal pattern and which sits at the base of Antwerp’s police headquarters.
That’s where Station 1280 moved to from the city’s central railway station in October 2020. The bottle shop and taproom had outgrown the cramped quarters at Antwerpen-Centraal, Ootjers said in an interview with the Beer Idiots.
At Oudaan, Ootjers now has more space, and a terrace where drinkers can hang out and perhaps even listen to some music in the open area.
And then there is the idea for the brewery in the space next door. He joined up with Morrell, who homebrews as BRWBRD, to create Uncharted Brew Co.
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Würziger, herb hopfiger Beginn. Etwas trocken, leichte Bitterkeit, sehr weich. Würzig, langer Abgang. 12/9/8/9//9
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2023
at 14:35
8/10
Tried
on 10 Nov 2023
at 20:37
7.2/10
Great sour of the kettle version i thinkk. But probably not just drunk, great beerZ Billie’s crest beer 2023
Tried
on 10 Nov 2023
at 20:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Draught Very huge and lacey white head over clear golden beer. Very nice exotic fruit and citrus' fruit nose. Lemonbalm, grapefruitpeel, very inviting. Fruity and light-bitterish taste, citruspeel, limepeel. Light body, the fruitesters are very consistent but get sweeter in the end and warming up. Medium to good carbonation. Nice, inviting - not a big beer but a good beer.
Tried
from Draft
at
Spéciale Belge Taproom
on 22 Oct 2023
at 08:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
19 August 2023. At 13de Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Tim & so many others!
A: hazy ochre, small, white head.
A: pineapple, tangerine, mango, dough, honey.
T: sweet pineapple, tangerine, sourish note, honey, biscuit.
F: floral hops, bittersweet stone fruit, tangerine peel.
P: medium body, oily texture, average carbonation.
Pleasantly bitter DIPA.
A: hazy ochre, small, white head.
A: pineapple, tangerine, mango, dough, honey.
T: sweet pineapple, tangerine, sourish note, honey, biscuit.
F: floral hops, bittersweet stone fruit, tangerine peel.
P: medium body, oily texture, average carbonation.
Pleasantly bitter DIPA.
Tried
on 07 Oct 2023
at 13:30
6/10
Kaunane ja kuiv, mehune, tsitrus. Okish.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Oct 2023
at 13:52
7/10
Magus, kergelt mehune, tsitrus, kuiv, maitseb värskelt, mis annab ekstra punkte.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Oct 2023
at 13:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
19 August 2023. At 13de Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Tim & so many others!
A: hazy yellow, off-white had.
A: papaya, pineapple, unripe peach, shallot.
T: sweetish peach, sourish citrus zest, spicy shallot.
F: bitter citrus pith, crisp, unripe stone fruit.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Utterly drinkable and balanced.
A: hazy yellow, off-white had.
A: papaya, pineapple, unripe peach, shallot.
T: sweetish peach, sourish citrus zest, spicy shallot.
F: bitter citrus pith, crisp, unripe stone fruit.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Utterly drinkable and balanced.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2023
at 14:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the brewery. Pours hazy pale orange, nose is funk, peach, mango, taste is tart, juicy peach, sweet.
Tried
on 28 Sep 2023
at 09:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
DIPA by Uncharted, sampled at Gents Bierfestival. Snow white, medium thick, tiny-bubbled, creamy head over a cloudy to even somewhat milky, yolk-yellow blonde beer. Aroma of green mango, pomelo, a dank armpit sweat note, grapefruit zest, papaya, lemon peel, lime, fresh dough. Fruity onset, notes of pineapple, starfruit, lychee and light papaya with a citric edge, medium carb, full and smooth doughy maltiness deeply soaked in tropical and citrusy, bright hoppiness with a slight dank side but still huge emphasis on pomelo, lychee, starfruit and green mango, bringing a mild yet somewhat ‘stretched’ and adequate bitterness. Another amazing IPA by Uncharted – this man truly knows how to use his hops and eliminate everything that does not belong in an Anglo-Saxon IPA or APA idiom, something not many Belgian microbrewers can compare with.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2023
at 13:26