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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from Malt Attacks, 24th January 2026. Pours clear and golden. Aroma is aromatic and pithy, taste is bitter and dry, citrus, light pine
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jan 2026
at 16:37
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Draught Very good & dense yellowish head, very regular over veiled orangey-golden, metallic beer. Citrus, musk, lots of ureum, exotic berries. Again ureum and asafoetida, funky lupulin. There is a faint acidity, neither fruity neither acetic or lactic. Very slick, hopoily. Good carbonation, at least medium bodied. Decent +
Tried
from Draft
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 27 Dec 2025
at 09:29
6/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled at Billies, day 2. Hazy pale yellow color with a white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, citrusy hops but with a lime twist in there somehow. Okay, but that lime threw me off a little. 5-6,5-6-6-6
Tried
on 22 Dec 2025
at 19:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 8
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
Sampled at Billies, day 2. Hazy yellow color, small white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, hoppy, dry, rather dry, strata and riwaka hops come through clearly. Okay. 5-8-6,5-7-6
Tried
on 22 Dec 2025
at 19:49
6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled at Billies day 1. Opaque black color, small off-white white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, laurel, a bit dusty, metallic / iron, average to medium bitter with iron coming through. Hmm, mwah. 7-6-5,5-6-6
Tried
on 19 Nov 2025
at 21:41
7.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sampled at Billies day 1. Murky yellow color, white head. Aroma and flavor are nicely fruity, tropical fruity hoppy, okay bitterness. Medium body. Quite nice. 5-7,5-7,5-8-7,5
Tried
on 19 Nov 2025
at 21:40
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Nov 2025
at 09:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Nov 2025
at 09:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Nov 2025
at 17:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Nov 2025
at 17:16