Brouwerij De Brabandere

Commercial Brewery in Bavikhove, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 1894

Contact
Rijksweg 33, Bavikhove, 8531, Belgium
Description
De Brabandere Brewery looks back on a rich history, and looks to the future with equal confidence. The dream cherished by founder Adolphe De Brabandere at the end of the nineteenth century when he laid the foundations for his brewery in Bavikhove has come to fruition in the successful company of today.
Our rich assortment of beers is enjoyed by connoisseurs far beyond our borders.

Brewing was, is, and will continue to be, an art at De Brabandere. Our numerous characterful beers can be considered as our heritage: made with traditional craftsmanship, authentic ingredients and... lots of love. To create unique flavour sensations for you to share with your friends is what motivates us at De Brabandere, day in and day out.

For almost 25 years, between 1990 and 2014, the brewery bore the name Bavik.

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6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

Huge, light-yellowish head, fed by lively carbonated plated gold beer and textbook lace. White candi sugar dominating spicy and herbal notes, peppery, undergrowth branches. Faint rainwater/wet dog. Aloholic, boozy characteristics overlying partly toasted malts; white candi sugar, scorched. Some yeast features; branches. Warming up, more bitterness, acorns. Sharpish feel, alcoholburn, bit slick. Very well-carbonated. Another 'tripel'. Too expensive for the boozers on the market benches or on the verges near de koerse, but in the end not much more than a top fermented maltliquor. Txs to Stef!

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2026 at 16:17


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

33 cl. can @ home, bought @ Boon's Markt, Beesd.
Crystal clear golden with a white head. Malty aroma with some faint citrus. Bitter taste with a medium bitter metallic finish. Mediocre.

Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2026 at 10:15


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

Bottle at home. Clear dark golden with big white head. Sweet malts, honey, dried fruits, cardboard, apricot. Medium sweet and bitter. Full bodied. Not a typical Belgian blond, almost an imperial lager. Not too bad though.

Tried from Bottle from J.P. Alsem on 20 Mar 2026 at 20:44


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Smell-weak caramel, some belgian tones
Foam- thin hops, belgian tones, some caramel. Head is
Appearance- beer specific? bottle cap, nice simple label. Clear orange color, some active carbonation.
From - snifter
Taste - caramel, belgian tones, bitter tones in mix and then malt. Ok belgian.

Tried from Bottle at Spirits & Wine Domina on 12 Mar 2026 at 18:42


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Huge, dense, just off-white head, irregular, over finely carbonated hazy orange-ochre beer, laceblobs. Vanilla, oak, and dry cereals. Straw, dried hops and clearly white candi sugar. White candi sugar again very much in the front tastewise. Almost boozy, but certainly rather dreary - nothing to get enthusiastic about. So compulsively balanced that nothing hits. It isn't emtpy, but its slickness appears manufactured. Dull booze in a Champagne bottle. And months lost for nothing...

Tried from Bottle from ALBO Drinks on 22 Feb 2026 at 08:58


7.5

Tried from Bottle on 20 Feb 2026 at 17:18


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

75cl bottle in holiday in the caravan in The Netherlands 18/4/2014
Tight foamy white head on a golden coloured body.
No other details only a photo

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2026 at 22:01

gave a cheers!

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

Thinnish bod, med carbo. Quite sweet, lots of sour cherryish fruitiness. Little else present. Tasty, good.

Tried from Draft at Gulden Draak Bierhuis Prague on 25 Jan 2026 at 10:07


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

A bit simple, watery, sweetish. Cherry moderately present, but lacking some more beery sophistication. Drinkable, clean, just kinda boring.

Tried from Draft at Gulden Draak Bierhuis Prague on 25 Jan 2026 at 10:06


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Pleasant and easy drinkable blond
Wheat, fruity, bread and some yeast
[Bottle from Petter – Sørjordet Plaza 25]

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2025 at 12:14