Waterfields Brewery (Obuz)

Microbrewery in Zonnebeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2020

Contact
Vyvestraat 15, Zonnebeke, 8840, Belgium
Description
The Waterfields Brewery Passendale is part of a greater whole. Alongside working as a farmer and a brewer, Henk Lemaire is also the host of the Waterfields B&B and the man who runs the banquet hall, all based at the same estate. The farmer even designed his own brewery installation. With a background as a master brewer with a beer producer of renown, Henk drew the design of the installation himself, specifically geared to the beer he was looking to brew. In spite of the use of state-of-the-art technology, the installation is based on traditional craftsmanship processes and is perfectly suited to produce craft beer.

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

Can from Beer52. It pours clear deep golden - blonde with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is fragrant, powdered sugar, banana split, foamy candy, pear drops, melon and custard creams. The taste is dry, bitter - sweet, sweet - spicy, peppery, nip of booze, cereal, nuttiness, slightly metallic, bread and biscuit with a drying finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy. Not bad, but not super exciting. Fine.

Tried from Can from Beer52 on 22 Mar 2026 at 18:11


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Golden pour white head
A - belgian esters, slight banana
F - spice, esters
smooth mouthfeel
its nice

Tried from Can from Beer52 on 20 Mar 2026 at 20:26


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Fles geprobeerd bij Ed en Loes. Het is een helder goudgeel bier met een dun wit schuim. Het heeft een aroma van mout en licht hoppig. De smaak is moutig, zacht citrus achtig en licht hoppig.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2026 at 00:18


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Towering, dense, just yellowish head over lively carbonated pale yellow beer, fully veiled. Bit oppressive nose, strong garden weed aromas. Continental hops, but also as wild hops, and above all, a strong smell of asparagus (DMS?!), untreated. Again asparagus in the taste, if combined with a strange flavour of toasted malts (colour???), and human sweat. There might be coriander indeed, but this flavour is warped, transmongrified. Light body; on the verge of overcarbonated; bit sticky, filmy MF. Doubtful result. I wonder if this is intentional. from Dranken Goegebuer, Knesselare

Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2024 at 18:39


5.5

Tried from Bottle on 23 Sep 2023 at 09:56


4

Something went wrong...

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jun 2023 at 17:29


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

The tripel version in this new series, brewed by what is apparently an actual new microbrewery in Passendale, known for its World War I history and its cheese. Thanks to Think Cool Bontinck in Zele for buying in this one after I requested it - after all, this beer shop is listed as one of Obuz's official distributors on the Waterfields website... Thickly moussy, egg-white, pillowy, membrane-like lacing, largely even-bubbled, stable head on an initially crystal clear, pure golden blonde robe with vague apricot tinge and hardly any visible sparkling (if some), turning misty with sediment. Aroma of banana, chewing gum, plaster, honey, cooked pear, breakfast cereals, rubber, granulated sugar, bitter garden weeds, 'perzikjenever', candy apple, wodka, hints of chamomile, still warm brioche bread, freshly cut grass and cooked bitter roots. Sweet onset, lots of isoamylacetate (banana ester, in a bubblegummy way), hints of ripe pear and pineapple but generally quite 'dull' in its esters, with an unexpectedly 'painful' sting of 'hidden' carbonation, adding a souring effect and minerality in a coarse kind of way; sweet pear and pineapple accents travel along with the much more dominant banana over a slick cereally pale malt sweet middle with an unpleasant rubbery effect to it. Some 4-vinyl-guaiacol (soup meat in this case) briefly appears retronasally, adding insult to injury; clove-like effects from the same source are also present, as well as a whiff of floral hops, adding an 'end' bitterness too feeble to withstand either the sweetness or the ensuing onslaught of crude, 'jenever'-like alcohol which had made its presence clear earlier on. Ends unpleasantly boozy, sweet, unrefined and even a bit 'thin'. Granted, the hops eventually become a tad rooty and their bitterness lingers on - but too little and too late. This beer totally lacks depth, finesse and yeastiness - I have the impression it is trying to compete with Duvel, Omer, Hapkin and other 'edelbieren' instead of aiming at 'true' tripel, but even then it greatly falls short in comparison with the established brands. The raters preceding me have been very benevolent, but I had enough crap like this: this is utterly redundant, too boozy, too sweet and badly structured, a 'Belgian strong blonde' the bad way and almost approaching the 'drain pour limit' for me, sorry...

Tried on 15 Apr 2023 at 00:47


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

Thx to @JefV for this bottle. Clear golden color and a white head. Herbal and banana nose, taste is also yeasty, faint herbal and rather sweet. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2023 at 15:01


5.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle from somewhere.
A: clear golden, big, foamy, white head.
A: grass, apple, leek (vague DMS), yeast, coriander.
T: sweetish apple, unripe pear, vegetables, soapy wheat.
F: spicy coriander & grassy hops.
P: medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation.
Nothing special and too vegetable-like.

Tried on 13 Feb 2023 at 13:52


2.4
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 1.5 | Flavor - 2.5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

Stark karbonisiert. Süßer Beginn mit viel Gemüse. Helles Malz, wenig aromatisch, unrund, falsch. Bäh. 8/4/5/4/7/4

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2023 at 15:29