Kaapse Brouwers
Microbrewery
in
Rotterdam,
Zuid-Holland,
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated with 4 Venues
Established in 2014
Contact
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.
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.
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home, 26th April 25, from Sterk, Amsterdam. Pours black and thick. Aromas are complex, chocolate, caramel and wood, liquor and barrel, taste is rich, caramel, cake, chocolate, liquor, cognac is well incorporated
Tried
from Can
on 27 Apr 2025
at 15:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Arendsnest, 23rd April 25. Pours a thick black. Aroma is earthy, soy, treacle, barrel. Taste is rich,,but dry earthy and some bitterness, a little sharp or sour
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2025
at 13:07
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
(Draft at Bierlokaal de Uiver, Haarlem, 20 Feb 2025) Black colour with creamy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with coffee, oak wood, liquorice and aromas of cognac. Malty, roasted, vinous taste with notes of dark chocolate, espresso, dark bread, cognac, oak wood and a balanced cacao bitterness in a warming, slightly boozy finish. Full body, quite sweet. Rich and powerful, with a generous wood character. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bierlokaal de Uiver
on 14 Apr 2025
at 19:37
6/10
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Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2025
at 19:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 19th March 2025. Pours a thickish black. Aroma is liquor, barrel, roasted malts. Taste is complex, barrel and wood, liquor and malts, liquorice. Good stuff
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Mar 2025
at 21:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Can, 8.5%. Color: Hazy golden, frothy white head. Aroma: Hoppy, resinous. Taste: Hoppy, resinous notes, floral, malty backbone with some notes of bread and biscuit. Medium body, average carbonation. Moderate sweet, starting over moderate bitter, going to over medium bitterness at the dry and long lasting finish.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Mar 2025
at 19:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle at home, cellared this one for 8 months. Pours jet black with beige head. Nose is chocolate, cocoa powder, molasses and booze. Taste is moderately sweet with no bitterness, closing with a slightly dry finish. It shows notes of chocolate, booze, molasses, a touch of cocoa again. Medium bodied with soft carbonation, apart from the lightly dry finish it's nice and silky. Tasty, if a bit one dimensional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:22
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6
Can shared at Csaka. Deeper golden pour with a thin white head. Nose is caramel, booze and orange zest. Taste is grainy, it shows honey, hay , caramel, orange and warming booze. Closes with a sweet, warming and boozy finish, it has a medium body and soft to average carbonation. Nothing to write hme about, but pretty decent in general.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:20
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 10
Overall 5
Straight from the can at this Alkmaar park, from a random Jumbo. Fajon jellegtelen, konkretan vizes, meg szupermarket beer letere is. Nem szamitottam sokra (sot), de meg igy is alulmulta a varakozasaim.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Clear golden body with a dense, beige head. Strong aroma of dry fruit, peach, apricot, resin,malt and warming alcohol. Flavor is really sweet, but in a delicious way with lots of fruit and balancing bitterness, lots of malt as well. A really bold beer with strong flavors and much of everything without feeling unbalanced. Fine body and long lasting aftertaste as well. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2025
at 05:14