Craywinckelhof

Microbrewery in Lubbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Craywinckelhof

Established in 1893

Contact
Staatsbaan 263, Lubbeek, 3210, Belgium
Description
The brewery is the beating heart of the Craywinckelhof. It all started in 1893, when Germaan Van Obbergen, like many farmers at the time, started a small farm brewery. The brewery, however, was not granted a long life, during the First World War the German occupiers seized all the brewing material. In 2010, Louis Schrevens, now the 5th generation, decided to restore the brewery to its former glory.

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6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Kraaike Metteko (by Craywinckelhof):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

15/XII/12 - 75cl bottle @ Kerstbierenfestival (Essen) - BB: n/a (2012-1372)

Little cloudy brown beer with a red glaer, aery off-white to beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: caramel, yeast, green banana peel, dried fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, mocha, caramel, some dried fruits, pretty hoppy, dry ending.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2012 at 10:11

6.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
33cl. Ambrée assez léger, présentant qcq sédiments levure, col beige. Arôme de malt crystal avec en retrait ce profile de pils, le tout a un nez intéressant de sucre/toffee léger. En bouche, même avis, profile d’une scotch mais avec une légèreté de pils, belle note de malt grillé et caramel le tout sur un malt pils amer. Houblon EK Goldings rajoute un fini amer léger, le tout un côté fleuri et citronné.
Tried on 13 Jan 2012 at 09:02

6.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Small yellowish head over hazy dark amber beer. Grassy nose, herbal, and caramel malts. Sweet-caramelly, bready. Finish is herbal, but light. Spritzy, slightly syrupy-slick. OK, nothing more.
Tried on 30 Oct 2011 at 07:43

6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Very good, dense yellow head over orange-golden beer. Veggie nose, with a jumble of malts, totally unbalanced aromas. Sweet-metallic, bit sweaty, meaty, dry yeasty flavours. Thick texture - way too thick for a tripel. Strange "tripel". Even stranger from De Proef.
Tried on 04 Jul 2011 at 01:54

6.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Small, lightly yellow-tinted head over fully hazy orange-golden beer. Green ferns, unripe strawberry, and some fruity, citrussy notes. Old cookies, grains and/or wheat; human sweat in the finish, or dry-fried bacon without the saltiness. Medium bodied, very slick, like wheatslickness, and ending quite dry. OK, but another rather unoriginal beer.
Tried on 04 Jul 2011 at 01:33

5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is herbal yeasty and sligh spiced phenolic to estery. Sweet toasted malty and slight yeasty. Dry and phenolic finish.
Tried from Bottle on 31 May 2011 at 12:28

5.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, fruit, candy, and yeast. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and dusty hops, leading to a dry finish. The body is light.
Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2011 at 11:15

6.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
cloudy dark smooth yellow head. faint aroma, malty, sweet flowery. flavor is caramelly, slightly flowery, ends sweet and caramelly
Tried on 23 May 2011 at 11:15

6.2/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a cloudy amber with lumpy impurities with an off-white head - comes heavily gushing, bastards! Sweet caramel aroma, brown sugars. Medium body, caramel and a little overripe fruitiness, some phenols. Absolutely no bitterness. 230511
Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2011 at 11:11

6.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 330ml. @ home.Clear medium orange amber orange color with many small body particles, a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, vintage fruit - berry, light roasted, moderate yeasty, berry, leather, wood notes ! Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110204]
Tried from Bottle on 14 Feb 2011 at 12:04