Brouwerij Kompel

Client Brewer in Maasmechelen, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2015

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Two locals, whose grandparents were still working in the mine, developed the beers. The plan to brew on a large scale soon followed. The first liters of Kompel beer poured out of the tanks at Brouwerij Anders! Kompel Bovengronds was quickly successful and six months later Kompel Ondergronds came onto the market. Between the summer of 2015 and 2018, the beers were brewed at Kasteelbrouwerij Ter Dolen in Houthalen-Helchteren. Since 2019, the beers have been brewed on a larger scale at the Pilot Brewery in Lochristi.

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Dark golden colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have an abundance of floral sweet honey. Grwat body. Sweet but not cloying.
Tried on 04 Oct 2020 at 13:51

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Light golden colour with thin head. It's a well balanced Tripel. Decent body. Not overly sweet.
Tried on 02 Oct 2020 at 18:51

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from Prik & Tik, Riemst. Pours hazy dark brown with a lasting, thin, frothy, tan head. Aroma of dark toffee, brown bread, mocha, liquorice, raisin, vague strawberry, cherry. Taste has sweet-spicy liquorice, toffee & raisin, brown-bready maltiness with a sour berry effect. Herbal hoppy finish, notes of mocha, liquorice & raisin. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Better than your average industrial Belgian Dubbel.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Aug 2020 at 15:26

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Honey beer in this Limburgian Kompel series, flavoured with coriander and curaçao. Very thick and foamy, pillowy, cobweb-lacing, egg-white, densely mousy and very stable head on an initially lightly hazed, pale orangey peach blonde beer with vivid sparkling, turning equally misty with sediment. Aroma initially a bit 'blocked' by the foam, but releasing impressions of peach, banana, indeed honey, sugar loaf, soapy-spicy coriander seed, half-dry orange peel, jute bags, linseed, straw, bread crust, dried lavender and violets, sweet potato, bath foam touch in the background but fortunately not overwhelming at all, faint whiff of iron perhaps but not feeling too unnatural at all. Spritzy, fruity onset, estery with hints of peach, freshly cut red apple and a whiff of banana but not overly so, sweetish with a sourish edge, the latter accentuated by the lively, very minerally carbonation; slick, lean mouthfeel, coarsened a bit by the carbonation. Cereally and bread-crusty, lightly but unmistakably caramelly maltiness, sweetish but rather restrainedly so, with not too much residual sugariness (but still some), so tasting a bit less honeyish than most 'average' consumers will probably expect; the honey does, however, add a very flowery retronasal aroma, again reminiscent of dried lavender, violets and sweetclover. Ends with a confident but traditionally 'Belgian-dosed', floral and bit leafy hop bitterness, in which soapy coriander seed effects and a slightly tangy dried orange peel accent are absorbed; the coriander does resound a bit in the end, but luckily does not dominate as much as it often does in this kind of beers. Remains sleek, streamlined and more dryish than expected, so I'm already happy that this is apparently not a sweet, perfumey 'flower beer' (which is what I was fearing a bit when I bought the bottle and read the label); this is indeed a classic artisanal Belgian honey beer, as classic as it gets in that specific segment even, with its honey-blonde colour, considerable ABV of 8% and flowery aromas paired with basic honeyish sweetness. Fits perfectly into the tradition of Lefebvre's Barbãr Blonde, Boelens' Bieken, La Saint-Monon au Miel and so on: a classic, sweetish, 8% tripel with added flower aspects from the honey used in the fermentation process. It does not add anything to that specific family of Belgian beers, but I have to admit that it is well made and combines well-restrained honeyish sweetness with elegant flowery aromas. As with all these Kompels: nothing innovative whatsoever but not intended as such either, and functioning well enough in a traditional Belgian context.
Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2020 at 01:59

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours slightly imperfect on clarity, pale blonde with a small white head. Smell is relatively intense. Malty ( bready ) . Refined. mild german-style hoparoma. Taste is relatively full. Milder bitterness. Enjoyable german hopprofile. Tad too high carbo for me. Clean fermentation profile .
Tried on 11 Mar 2020 at 13:48

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Pours clear blonde, medium sized white head. Smell is non existent, maybe an ever so slight hint of banana esters ? Taste is slightly bitter, some banana. Fine bitterness vs sweet balance. Lower banana intensity ( especially low for the style ). Pretty bland tripel
Tried on 11 Mar 2020 at 13:45

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pours clear blonde, relatively bog white head. Smell is refined, perfumy, mild honey like funk, but not recognizable honey to me ( not as sweet either, let alone as chemical as the likes of barbar ) . Taste is sharp, floral, low bitterness. Perfumy. Fairly elegant. Mildly sweet finish. Bit too much carbo. Beautifull usage of honey, where the florality really is put to the front, but remains a very boring BE style beer nevertheless. Perhaps with a different base, this might be a very fun beer !
Tried on 11 Mar 2020 at 12:54

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pours deep, clear red with a purple glow. Small, pinkwhite head. Smell is sweet, cherry syrup. Sugary. No beer based backbone to be found. Taste is straight up cherry juice. Not so bad - as cherry juice is not that bad - but has little to do with beer at this point. Milder sweetness than anticipated. bit bitterness left ( low amounts though ) .
Tried on 11 Mar 2020 at 12:40

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Fles geprobeerd bij EdwinC. Het is een licht troebel oranje bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige wat citrus achtige geur. De smaak is moutig, licht kruidig en wat hoppig.
Tried on 02 Mar 2020 at 20:21

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Goudkleurig licht troebel bier met schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en krachtig met iets van aardbei, sinaasappel en honing. Erg fijn bier.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Dec 2019 at 11:34