Brouwerij Hoegaarden
Commercial Brewery
in
Hoegaarden,
Flemish Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Established in 1965
Contact
Description
The last brewery in Hoegaarden, Tomsin, closed shop in 1957. Soon after, in 1965, the villagers decided to take action to preserve the original recipe. Milkman Pierre Celis decided to grasp the nettle and started brewing up a batch in his milk shed, using only a copper boiler. Because of the great success he quickly expanded his operation and moved into a bigger building – ‘De Kluis’ (The Vault) – a subtle nod to the monks. By 1985 the nod was no longer subtle as he was making more than 75.000 hectolitres per year. Just as he was about to start exporting to the United States, a large fire shattered his dreams (and the beer). The brewery was destroyed.
Since 1985, the brand has been part of Artois brewery, which provided fresh capital, after the fire. After the takeover, the recipe was changed to appeal to a wider audience and save on raw materials. The Artois brewery, which had already been absorbed into InBev (nowadays Aneuser-Busch InBev) for some time, decided in 2006 to close the brewery and move production to Jupille. On September 10, 2007, it was announced that Hoegaarden would once again be brewed in Hoegaarden. The brewery in Jupille didn't manage to imitate the typical taste of Hoegaarden...
Since 1985, the brand has been part of Artois brewery, which provided fresh capital, after the fire. After the takeover, the recipe was changed to appeal to a wider audience and save on raw materials. The Artois brewery, which had already been absorbed into InBev (nowadays Aneuser-Busch InBev) for some time, decided in 2006 to close the brewery and move production to Jupille. On September 10, 2007, it was announced that Hoegaarden would once again be brewed in Hoegaarden. The brewery in Jupille didn't manage to imitate the typical taste of Hoegaarden...
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from random store in Bruxelles. Hazy pale yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, light sugary and heavy grapefruit. Flavor is medium sweet and slightly acidic. Dry and slightly acidic finish. Excellent radler. Grapefruit radlers remain the best. 130418
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2018
at 19:30
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Fles 33cl bij café Den Baron in Edegem. Volle smaak, vanille, haver?, wat zurig, zoetig, fruitig, heel licht kruidig. (27-3-2018).
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2018
at 18:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
v byvalom regalovi. jemna citrusova vona. bleda kalna farba, pena drzi. sladkasta medova velmi slabo citrusova chut. na konci ostava.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2018
at 18:14
5/10
Tried
on 20 Mar 2018
at 15:42
3.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Pours a hazy opaque light yellow. Very sweet flavor that overpowers everything else. Witbier is not a favorite style but this is way down my list of options.
Tried
on 17 Mar 2018
at 17:58
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
0.25l bottle. Pink body with a light pink head. The aroma is all raspberry nothing else. The taste is similarly one-dimensional, but it also has a subtle lemony sourness to it. It's a nice drink, but very hard for me to think of it as a beer and not as raspberry syrup topped up with sparkling water.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2018
at 20:35
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can shared in London - thanks to Cloin. Pours unclear yellow with a small, tight, creamy white head. Nice mix of citrus fruits in the nose. Medium sweet flavour, some sugary grapefruit and orange, touches of pale bread, just a nip of tartness. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, more grapefruit, melon, tangerine. Solid! Sincere for the most part.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2018
at 22:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can split at Bodney Heights, picked up in a Belgoo Supermarkt (at Brugges station I think), 22/02/18. Hazed light soapy orange with a decent off white covering. Nose is big on grapefruit zest, blood orange, straw, refreshing citric zest. Taste comprises juicy citric zest, red grapefruit, melon, red berry nip. Light body, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a sweetish climax. This is a sincere Radler !
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2018
at 21:30
6/10
Tried
on 22 Feb 2018
at 21:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 330 ml, from Pivoljub. Shared with Max and JFK10000. Pours cloudy golden, large white head. Sweet, banana, yeasty, fruity. Bit spicy. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Pivoljub - The First Beer Shop in Slovenia
on 16 Feb 2018
at 22:29