Brouwerij Bosteels

Commercial Brewery in Buggenhout, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev

Established in 1791

Contact
Kerkstraat, 96, Buggenhout, 9255, Belgium
Description
In the hands of the Bosteels family for over 200 years, the brewery relies today on the craftmanship of seven generations. In 1791, Jean-Baptist Bosteels established the brewery, and has been followed by generations who took over the brewery with zeal and never stop brewing even during the world wars. At that time, the brewery played such an important role in the town, the family Bosteels was such influential people that we are not surprised that 3 on the 7 generations have been Town Mayors.

In the 1930’s Antoine Bosteels, 5th generation, carried on the brewing dynasty and played an important role expanding the sales of the Bosteels Pils into other regions such as Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels. His son Ivo Bosteels honored the iconic beer of Pauwel Kwak by bringing it back to the market in 1980; this is the beginning of the strong beers for the Brewery Bosteels. In the year 1990, Ivo’s son, Antoine Bosteels, the 7th generation, understood the potential of the strong beers and especially the trend for the blond ones. Driven by passion of the art of brewing and guided by his creativity, Antoine is at the roots of the Tripel Karmeliet and the DeuS Brut des Flandres.

It was announced in 2016 that the brewery would be taken over by beer giant AB InBev, however Antoine Bosteels will remain chairman of the Board of Directors and will also remain operationally involved to ensure business continuity. In addition, the brewing activities will remain based in Buggenhout.

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6.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Golden amber color with white foaming head. skunky over tone. Bitter rich with a sour malt finish.
Tried on 04 Mar 2006 at 09:34

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Amber color with reddish shine. Medium head. Aroma is toffee. Taste is on the sweet side with good malty accents. In the afthertaste you can notice herbs, some spices and a faint bitterness
Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2006 at 11:56

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 6
Hazy gold,large stark white head.Small bead.Yeasty frutiy nose.Spicey yeasty palate,orange peel overtones,mild alcohol heat. Nothing special
Tried on 27 Feb 2006 at 18:28

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
750ml bottle. Dark amber in colour with a nice white head. Toffee flavours dominate and the sweetness is just a bit too much. Whilst I consider this a very enjoyable beer and do rate it quite well it has probably shifted more units as a consequence of it’s quirky stand and drinking vessel than it would have done if sat on the shelf next to some of it’s more impressive Belgian neighbours.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Feb 2006 at 02:13

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Was reddish in color with a foamy white head. Bitter sweet malt smell. Tasted like sweet fruit and malt. Very pleasant overall!
Tried on 22 Feb 2006 at 07:55

4.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4
2005 bottle from Downtown Liquors, 750mL, consumed on 2/3/06. Typcial bottle conditioned poor yields large amounts of rocky, off-white head, tons of vigorous carbonation and a lightly hazed dark copper body with very faint raspberry tresses. The nose shows of strong maltiness, plenty of caramelized sugars, fat brown sugar sweetness, no hops and a dry yeast that seems very stale and blanding (old, dried out dough). Almost thought I smelled DMS, but I’m not positive. The flavor dumps malt down your throat. Sweet, fat, cloying malt sugars. Almost no complexity in my bottle. It seemingly goes from a dusty, dry yeastiness, with too much carbonation even, to thick brown sugar and caramel. Odd sharpness on the end is almost veggie-like in nature; just a dry, plant-like bitterness. Tastes carbonic as well, I suppose you might say (seltzer water) and gets watery on the very end. Some alcohol sharpness on the end, as well as some light green apples. The carbonation is way too expansive, too harsh and the texture is not as comforting as it should be for all of the sweetness. Not sure what went wrong here (or if something did go wrong), but I poured out the bottle after the first glass.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Feb 2006 at 14:36

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
This dark yellow bodied beer creates a thick, large, three-dimensional head that leaves a delicate lace. Lemony aroma. Ligtly sweet flavor balances out with a dryness as it moves towards the finish.
Tried on 16 Jan 2006 at 16:24

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle says drink by Nov 4, 06. Poured into a tulip with a massive amount of white, fluffy head. Nice, gold color. Malty nose. Dry malty burn with a sweet, hop finish. Very fizzy. Quite nice.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2006 at 19:11

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Amber color with a creamy off-white head. Aroma of sweet malts. Sugary flavor with molassas tones.
Tried on 04 Jan 2006 at 00:08

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle 0,33 L. Frothy white excellent head. Yellow cloudy colour. Lots of citrusaroma. Powerfull tripel taste. Long finish. Very nice palate.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2005 at 17:14