Vleesmeester Brewery

Microbrewery in Boechout, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Hoogmis

Established in 2010

Contact
Strijdersstraat 18, Boechout, 2650, Belgium
Description
Vleesmeester Brewery saw the light in 2010, when 3 friends –after years of frequenting beer festivals- decided to make their own beers. We bought ourselves a starter kit, and so it began. Some people in our surroundings wondered what we were doing in the kitchen and wanted to come take a look. Whilst crushing the malt they thought we were grinding it in a meat mill. So they started calling us “Vleesmeester” which means meatmaster in Dutch. From then on we called ourselves “Vleesmeester Brewery”, a lay-outer and friend of ours made a logo, and “Vleesmeester Brewery” was born. Fascinated by the less known beers out of the craft beer scene we started experimenting. Our preference went to hoppy beers and our firstborns were mostly IPA’s and Russian Imperial Stouts. One better than the other, by trial and error. Along the way, the people, who weren’t into hoppy beers at first, started to find appreciation for what we were doing. In 2014 the guys from the Antwerp based band “Your Highness” asked us to make a beer to serve at the release of their album, this beer became “Hoogheid”.

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours clear and golden yellow, small white head. Aroma is grassy, straw and citrusy hoppy. Bitter, slight herbal. Dry, bitter and slight fruity finish.
Tried from Draft on 23 Apr 2017 at 08:31

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 7
Bouteille 33cl, BB 08/01/2018. Orange, col fin blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez finemetn fleuri houblonné assez noble, rétro de fleurs et de champs presque de pissenlit. Retrouve une petite pointe épicée en rétro rappelant la coriandre?, malt modéré plutôt discret. Palais offre une belle amertume qui respecte le nom de la bière, retrouve une amertume agréable aux notes fleuries avec un caractère de bourgeons de fleurs sauvages et des champs. Petite touche épicée demeure, venant de la levure? Pointe citronnée en fin de bouche avec un malt moyen restant dans le profil grain.
Tried on 17 Feb 2017 at 10:33

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Bottle @ home shared with Inoven and TomHendriksen. Clear rusty orange golden color, average sized off-white head that lasts for a decent while. Smell and taste malts, herbs or spices, sweetness, floral, unbalanced and weird. Meh at best.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2017 at 16:23

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Flesje gedeeld door Benzai en gedronken met TomHendriksen. Licht amber kleurig, beetje troebel bier met stevige schuimkraag. Aroma is hoppig. Smaak is zoet en hoppig. Smaak ebt snel weg.
Tried on 27 Dec 2016 at 15:07

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Fles gedeeld door Benzai. Het is een licht oranje kleurig bier. Het heeft een lekker hoppige smaak met een zoete nasmaak.
Tried on 27 Dec 2016 at 13:00

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from LDW. Nose of grass, citrus, bread. Bitter and tropical fruit taste. Not bad.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Nov 2016 at 16:07

6.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Jour de Fête (by Vleesmeester Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

5/XI/16 - 33cl bottle @ Als-ik-mijn-ogen-toe-doe-ben-ik-in-Honoloeloe (Mechelen) - BB: n/a (didn't see the cap) (2016-1286)

Clear orange beer, creamy solid off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice tropical fruits first, grapefruit, but also a bit dirty, some sulphur, grains, malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: grassy bitterness, very European hop flavours, some citrus, bit chemical. Aftertaste: very bitter, quite some band-aid, bit metallic, citrus, grassy, dry finish, medicinal.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Nov 2016 at 16:12

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draught No head, mud-filled ochre-malm coloured beer. Very spicy nose, with quite ureum-rich hops, also other green herbs. Beer turns out to be a bit of "hopwater", if again fresh green herbs - apparently low-alpha hops, quite nice. Very light body; aftertaste carries more malts, all the same. Not half bad - just its looks!
Tried on 23 Oct 2016 at 02:35

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draft at Billie’s Bier Kafétaria, Antwerp. Pours orangish gold and hazy with a white head. Moderate lacing. Aroma and taste of citrus, fruit, caramel. Refreshing.
Tried from Draft on 18 Sep 2016 at 10:49

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at Beerlovers Bar, from a beer firm in the wider Antwerp area. Irregularly shaped, moussy, off-white, lightly lacing head, lightly hazy golden blonde colour with vague orangey hue, misty with sediment. Aroma of lychee, mango, candied lemon, white bread, some ’old hop urine’, unripe kiwi, apple peel, minerals, pear. Crisp and fruity onset, lots of kiwi, starfruit and green banana impressions, hint pear perhaps, minerally carbonation, refreshing. Supple, smooth mouthfeel, ’fuller’ than expected from a session IPA, on a lightly bready core. Aromatic, bit resinous, delicate hop finish, citrus and some mango even, with malty ’juiciness’ passing through as well as some yeastiness. There are still not too many ISAs around in this country but as far as I’m concerned, there cannot be enough of them, I hope more of the newer Belgian micro breweries are interested to venture into this style, which is brilliant from a functional point of view, and delicate and rich from a pure flavor point of view. This can stand among the best of the Belgian session IPAs, limited as this group of beers may be.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2016 at 13:58