Kaapse Brouwers

Microbrewery in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated with 4 Venues

Established in 2014

Contact
Keilestraat 9 C, Rotterdam, 3029 BP, Netherlands
Description
Founder Tsjomme Zijlstra's idea to start his own brewery came to him after his time in England. He started to brew his own beer at home and decided in 2014 that he wanted go bigger. He met Menno and John, owners of Brouwerij de Molen in Bodegraven, and told them his story. They taught him how to brew with one of their old brewing installations. Kaapse Brouwers was born.

We are Kaapse Brouwers. We are the brewers who introduced craft beer to Rotterdam, and Rotterdam to the world. With our Kaapse recipes we brew non-conformist beers. We choose for bold recipes and love to experiment with different flavors to create contemporary craft beers.

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7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle @ home thx to joes. Murky brown/copper colour with a smal off-white head. Smells hops, grapefruit, pine. Tastes hops, sweet, grapefruit, some pine, resin. Medium body, soft carbo.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2014 at 14:38


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared by Joes @ weekly tasting. Hazy yellow color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, some herbs, a bit floral, pretty bitter for a saison. Not bad though, quite decent.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2014 at 13:11


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ home shared by joes. Hazy yellow to orange colour with a small white head. Smells herbs, spices, coriander, thyme, Belgian yeast. Tastes herbs and spices, slightly sweet, bitter. Don’t like it. Thin body, medium heavy carbo.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2014 at 13:05


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle @ home shared by joes. Hazy orange with a small off-white head. Smells hops, floral, grassy, green, fresh, nice. Tastes hops, bitter, fresh, fruity, apricot, lovely. Thin to medium body, soft carbo.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2014 at 12:49


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle shared by Joes @ weekly tasting. Hazy orange color, small off-white head. Smell lightly malts, a lot of grassy hops, wet grass. Taste lightly malts, grassy hops, lightly bitter, wet grass, lightly floral. Average body and carbonation. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2014 at 12:48


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from the BierKoning, Amsterdam. Poured a murky medium amber with a thin white head. The aroma is yeast and citrus fruit. The flavour is strong bitter with a rich alcoholic liqourice yeast chewy malt palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation. I’m not a big fan of this beer. The aroma was fine but the rest was a bit of a mess if I’m honest. It feels like something went wrong in the brewing process. There was way too much yeast and malt and way too chewy.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2014 at 13:36


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from the Bier Koning. Thin white head. Cloudy amber pour. Well hidden alcohol. Nice bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2014 at 13:29


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

Bottle from ABC Beers, Den Haag. Poured a hazy light amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is banana, light citrus. The flavour is acid citrus with a watery hop aromatic bitter palate. Light bodied with average carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2014 at 11:26


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle shared with JMGeenUK and MrHangover. Thin white head. Hazy golden blond pour. Pepper aroma. A decent saison

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2014 at 11:20


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from ABC Beers, Den Haag. Poured a hazy medium amber with a thin off white head. The aroma is tropical citrus hop. The flavour is medium bitter with a grassy hop slightly watery spiced palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2014 at 11:07