BierenVanBegeerte

Client Brewer in Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2010

Contact
Marie-Josélaan 51, Berchem, 2600, Belgium
Description
Beers Van Begeerte brews with a lot of patience and love for beer, and lets you enjoy our contemporary specialty beers. All our beers are first fine-tuned in our microbrewery. Since 2010 we have been brewing our tastiest beer recipes in collaboration with De Proefbrouwerij.

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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

-1 Point for the clear glass abomination. Crystal clear golden beer with some transparent rim. Real lambic nose, horseblanket, lemonpeel, leathergrease, hazy, white wine. Quite tart. Granny Smith apples. Wild yeasts and Brettanomyces in particular. Farmyard flavours, dried nettleleaves. Dry leaves and moss. The finish and aftertaste is where it cannot held up to the Pajottenland lambics, falling flat. Acidthinning. Remarkable! An (almost, we both agreed compared to the below ratings) real lambic BREWED in Antwerpen. Txs to Stef!

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2025 at 10:28


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Slightly aged beer - 1 point because of the clear glass bottle abomination. Almost no head, undercarbonated pink/terra cotta/orange tinted metallic red beer. WIld yeasts, Brettanomyces-like, sour fruits and (rasp)berries. All the above returning in the mouth. There are grapes, but not vinous (or it would be a cheap rosé). Looks dead-still, but the fresh acidity compensates in MF. Light, bit slick. Long lasting flavour & acidity. Amusing, if more than a bit homebrew-like, missing the complexity of a fruitlambic. And care to explain why neither volume nor ABV are indicated on the label? Txs to Stef!

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2025 at 09:54


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Shared @ Belgian Beer Geeks tasting. Thanks a lot! Hazy apple juice colour, no foam. Lemony, woody and funky. Very tart and a bit acetic.

Tried on 11 Dec 2023 at 11:03


6.4
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared at RBBWG 2023. Pale golden color, no head. Aroma is barnyard, piss. Flavor is sourish and barnyard. Hmm one dimensional I'd say. Drinkable though and it gets better after a while.

Tried on 09 Dec 2023 at 15:49


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours clear, Applejuice-like gold. No head. Scent is funky, loud and agressive brett. Overripe apples, mild wood. very funky. Taste is very doughy / malty - which I like but isn't very lambic-like. Very restrained tartness (barely any tartness). Some brett, woody. Not at all what I expect from a 'lambic', it's enjoyable though - but barely any ( if any) acidity prevent it from getting that lambic feel. Good beer, terible 'lambic'.

Tried on 09 Dec 2023 at 15:44


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

9/XII/23 - 75cl clear flip-top bottle @ BBGG winter 23-24, BB: n/a, bottled: 22/XI/23, bottle# 112 (2023-1146) Thanks to Kraddel for sharing the bottle!

Clear pale blond beer, practically no head. Aroma: funky, pretty lemony, malty, grains, a bit fruity, peaches, apricots, lemony, a bit earthy. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bitter, earthy, gentle acidity, fruity touch, lemony, a bit metallic, decent enough! Aftertaste: dry, lemony, some diacetyl, a bit funky, not too bad!

Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2023 at 15:15


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

Straw blond and hazy with fluffy white head. Aroma anf flavour of grassy, citrusy hops. Nice pithy bitterness.

Tried on 07 Sep 2022 at 17:26


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

33cl bottle. A clear pale yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of dry bitter hops, stone fruits, flowers. Taste of bitter stone fruits, flowers, some citrus, pale malt. Long bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2022 at 21:33


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

Brut IPA that's not super-dry (so not really in style), and also has quite a bit of BE yeast. lost my more specific notes, but this wasn't great (in style).

Tried on 24 Jan 2022 at 13:02


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Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2021 at 13:32