Stroom Brouwers
Microbrewery
in Ghent,
East Flanders,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2021
Farrell’s home town back in Colorado was named after the confluence of the Colorado and Grand rivers. As luck would have it, Gent is also named after the confluence of two rivers, one of which runs right past the brewery. It was playing with this happy coincidence that brought us to Stroom – a place for creative connection.
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed Moma from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pitch black beer with a small tan head. Aroma of strong dark roasted malt, whiskey, coffee, wood. Taste of strong dark malt, coffee, wood, whiskey, some dried fruits.
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed Mondello from Stroom Brouwers 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Slightly hazy golden beer with a white head. Aroma of tropical fruits, citra, oranges, grapefruit. Taste of intense citrusy hops, tropical fruits, grapefruit, oranges, some blood orange is present. Moderate to long bitter finish.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Moma from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
New ’wintery’ beer by Stroom in Ghent, a strong stout aged in both whisky and rum barrels; launched only recently, this one was already available – canned – at café De Redding in the Brugse Poort quarter in the northwest of Ghent. Moussy, pale yellowish beige, medium thick, opening head on a jet black beer. Aroma of dry old raisins, melting ‘fondant’ chocolate, cappuccino, old oak wood (even oak furniture), whisky indeed while rum remains less noticeable, fig compote, pipe tobacco, caramel. Densely sweet but ‘rounded’ and clean onset, raisins (or ‘boerenjongens’) again, candied dates, soft carb with full, oily mouthfeel; bittersweet black-chocolatey, dry-caramelly and pecan-nutty core with toasty edges but clearly more sweetness than bitterness, even hints of candied cherries, dark brown honey and latté. Lightly drying tannins with clear ‘oakiness’ retronasally, along with a peppery hop kick and warming, eventually somewhat tiresome and astringent alcohol, again much more whisky-like than rum-like. Bitter chocolate and roasted bitter coffee elements linger, but the sweetness always remains a tad stronger than the bitterness – clearly an American style ‘impy’ was intended here, a mission well executed, even if still a bit crude and boozy perhaps. Probably improves with more age on it so stack a few of these cans away in a cellar and see what becomes of them in a year or so. For now: indulgent, sweet, boozy stout, solid enough and fit for this gloomy time of the year.
EvNa (5983) reviewed Moma from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Dranken Geers, Oostakker. Color: Almost black, brown head. Aroma: Roasted malt, accompanied by boozy Rum and Whiskey notes. Taste: Mix of roasted malt, malty (barley and wheat), umami, candy sugar, liquorice, subtle dark chocolate and black coffee, almonds, sweetish Rum and subtle Whiskey / Bourbon. Quite boozy finish, warming mouthfeel. Over medium body, below average carbonation. Medium sweet, moderate bitterness. A bit thin, more like a BA Barley Wine - Imperial Stout - Weizenbock blend, not your average Imperial Stout (+1 for that). Pretty nice and well balanced overall. Nice one.
Icedwarf (4850) reviewed Grindstone from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Helder goudgeel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en fruitig met iets van citrus, wat houttonen en hars. De echte koffiesmaak heb ik niet kunnen ontdekken of dat moet het houtachtige in de smaak geweest zijn. Desondanks goed drinkbaar bier.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Schol23 from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
5/XI/23 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 14/X/23 (2023-896)
Clear blond yellow beer, small creamy crackling off-white head, dissipates quickly, a bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very yeasty, lots of bubble gum and (over)ripe banana, a little malty, some cookie dough, a hint of vanilla, sweet impression, some honey. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, gentle bitterness, a little sourish, some apples and pears, a bit yeasty. Aftertaste: a bit sourish, malty, some caramel, a little grassy, watery touch. Not really a hop-forward beer. Definitely not their best.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Schol23 from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
The second rendition of 'Schol', a beer brewed with fresh green hop cones from hops grown in the neighbouring Macharius quarter in Ghent, this time also containing wheat produced by IJzerkotmolen, an actual old windmill commercially exploited in Zwalm, south of Ghent. It illustrates how much Stroom supports short chain economy and local ingredients. Only released two weeks ago, I stumbled on this can while browsing the local beers sold in the shop in the cellar of the Lakenhalle, adjacent to the Ghent belfry, a lovely place in the historic heart of the old city of which I am a proud inhabitant myself. Audibly fizzing, egg-white, very moussy, regular, lightly lacing, slowly thinning and dissipating head over a misty pale ochre-ish-tinged yellow blonde beer with some minute, disparate bubbles distributed evenly. Aroma of freshly baked cookies, roux right before the milk is added to create béchamel, breakfast cereals, dry biscuits, sweetclover, diacetyl (buttermilk), vague clay, hints of honey, chamomile, vanilla somewhere and meadowsweet (subtle floral touches from the aforementioned hops). Sweetish, bit juicy onset, fruity aspects of apple slices, unripe apricot, pear and a very faint background touch of pineapple (ester), soft in carbonation, minerally hints through a slick, bit thinnish, bit doughy and cereally, cookie-ish maltiness with residual honeyish sweetishness on top (very thinly so) and an undertone of diacetyl (buttermilk, including its sourishness), the latter doubtlessly due to the fact that I am having this very young. The hops too remain subtle and light, with delicate floral notes and only basic bitterishness; I understand that these are apparently wild (botanical) hops instead of a specific variety, which explains the low rate of alpha acids and therefore lack of bitterness, which could have given this beer more character. The diacetyl, now still very obvious, will probably fade after a while so maybe I will have to drink this again later, but the hops will of course not increase in bitterness (on the contrary) so I wonder what will be left of this very delicate, thin, tenuous beer by then; in this form, too young clearly, but very easily drinkable and unassuming, truly an easygoing neighbourhood beer with little to no ambitions outside of its own Heirnis and Macharius quarters.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Amber ale brewed with wheat and millet - a grain species very rarely seen in beer even today - to create an 'ancient' feel, intended to refer to the 18th-century 'uytzet' beer of the greater Ghent area - an interesting concept reminiscent of certain similar experiments by Dok Brewing Company, located about a mile and half north of where Stroom is situated in Ghent. Thick, very regular and dense, creamy, membrane-lacing, silky, yellowish egg-white, rocky, very firm and only slowly diminishing head on an initially near-clear warm orange blonde beer with pale amberish tinge and fine sparkling throughout, misty with sediment. Aroma of halfripe apricot, wet toast, wholegrain bread crust, green melon, unsalted peanuts, rosewater, fresh croissants on Sunday morning, apple peel, young mugwort leaf, bird seed (or indeed millet). Fruity onset but in a well-measured way and not wildly estery, hinting at unripe peach, apricot, green melon and apple peel, sweetish but not quite, with finely tingling carbonation effectuating a minerally fraîcheur in the background; very rounded, almost lightly creamy, slick mouthfeel. Wheaty soapiness balanced against toasty and lightly peanutty barley breadiness and rounded graininess from the (toasted) millet, mellow fruity notes lingering until more toasty bitterness with a grainy-sweet character (the millet again) gains the upper hand, drying up the finish with the aid of a leafy, peppery, slightly earthy, lingering hop bitterness. Ends fruity, a bit yeasty, toasty and hop bitter, all in perfect balance with each other. I tend to agree with Nathan below that this is among Stroom's most refined and perfectly balanced beers so far, it conveys the near-forgotten historical uytzet associations in a modern, sleek, intelligent way. Beautiful little beer - its sheer 'beeriness' cleverly and almost paradoxically accentuated by a very unbeery ingredient.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Early Summer from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Medium, stable white head over clear darker golden beer with fine carbonation. Sweet citrus, almonds, amandine, peach, somewhat liqueurish, rosewater. Oxydation, oxydated malts (BBd + 2 months!), dark & dry malts and bread. Again almonds, rosewater. Light (?!) to medium bodied, good carbonation, quite slick. Ho-hum. Txs to Stef!
jefverstraete (7493) reviewed Mondello from Stroom Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
@ BXL Beerfest. Hazy orange colour, white foam. Nose of oranges, grapefruit, bitter orange peel, light sweet, bitter grassy hoppy finish.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.88 |
| Beers | 37 |
| Ticks | 187 |
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