Gruut Gentse Stadsbrouwerij

Microbrewery in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Gruut (Gentse Stadsbrouwerij)

Established in 2009

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Rembert Dodoensdreef 1, Gent, 9000, Belgium
Description
The Ghent city brewery Gruut was founded by Annick De Splenter in April 2009 at the Grote Huidevettershoek in Ghent. From an early age she was initiated into the wonderful world of fermentation and beer. The love for brewing is clearly in Annick’s genes, because they were active in the brewing world on both mother and father’s side. Just think of the brand names: Young Pale Ale from Gistel and Dentergems Wit, Liefmans or Lucifer from Dentergem.

The exceptional property of four of our Ghent Gruuten consists in that they are brewed without hops (only the Inferno is brewed with hops). The research into alternatives to replace the hop herb was of course not without a struggle. After a course in biochemistry and several partnerships with various universities, the Ghent city beer saw the light of day. There are 5 different variations: Gentse Gruut White, Gentse Gruut Blond, Gentse Gruut Amber, Gentse Gruut Bruin and Gentse Gruut Inferno. A special “Maîtresse” beer is also brewed every few months. This beer is special because we experiment with different ingredients. Some examples of ingredients are: mango, lime, chili pepper…

The larger volumes, including for export to America, are brewed at the Bavik brewery in Bavikhove.

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Bottle online from Beers of Europe. Pours lightly unclear chestnut with a slim beige cap. Aroma: sweet-ish, caramel, light yeasty, berries, nuts, herbal. The taste follows, caramel is prominent, also some spices. Medium body with light carbonation. .
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2023 at 19:07

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
450ml bottle. Pours hazy gold with a small white head. Aroma is coriander, citrus zest, pale malt. Taste is medium sweet, coriander and citrus. Light bitter finish. Way too sweet. Couldn’t drink more than half.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2023 at 11:38

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Bottled. Deep rubyish brown colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is dried fark fruits, figs, some herbs and mild earthy elements. Flavour is sweet malts, some caramel, raisins, mild figs and some toffee tones. Sweet malty and dried fruity aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2023 at 19:19

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Tried from Bottle on 03 Mar 2023 at 19:44

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Bottled. Hazy orangeish golden colour with a small longlasting foamy head, which also leaves some lace. Aroma is spicy, some green apples, peachy tones with mild yeast. Flavour is metallic, some green apples, mild peach/apricot with some alcohol and mild sweet grains. Kind of OK apart from the metallic strong edge in the flavour.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2023 at 21:22

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Bottled. Hazy golden colour with a mediumsized foamy white head, that leaves some lace. Aroma is grassy, some herbal, earthy, mild toffeeish and some sweet tones too. Flavour is fruity, some grainy, mild yeasty spiciness with some herbal tones. A bit on the watery side of things.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2023 at 20:57

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On tap at brewery tap Ghent. Dark brown beer. Lasting cream head. Diacetyl on aroma. Base beer is not attenuated. brewed too fast so too much residual sugar and diacetyl so no rest. this is not a good brewery. how it survives is amazing. some sweetness on end. diacetyl throughout at least the 8 per cent alcohol is warming. slightly creamy. someone needs to come in and shake this place up. lazy and poorly produced and served.
Tried from Draft on 03 Nov 2022 at 14:40

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On tap at the brewery Ghent. Hazy gild beer lasting white head . its an ok mid Belgian strong blond. lacks a little in body needs a bit more backbone to carry bitter hops and the abv. aroma is yeasty. as i say ok but distinctly average for Belgium but good bitter hop finish.
Tried from Draft on 03 Nov 2022 at 14:28

Tried on 31 Oct 2022 at 14:24

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Draugh, taster. @Gentse Stadsbrouwerij Gruut, Gent (Belgium). 07/09/2022 [#5.390 Global - #226 Belgium - #6 Gentse Stadsbrouwerij Gruut] Pours ugly murky brown. No head. Aroma: liquor, berries and ginger. Taste: very spiced and woody. Kinda plain Next one please!
Tried on 29 Sep 2022 at 12:11