Uiltje Brewing Co.
Microbrewery
in Haarlem,
Noord-Holland,
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Owned by
Bavaria Brouwerij (Swinkels Family Brewers)
Associated with 4 Venues
Associated Webshop: Uiltje Brewing Company
Associated User:
startender
Established in 2012
On a typical day we toy with the familiar – unfiltered lager, silky hefeweizen and puckery American IPA, anyone? – but at night we explore the crafty beer extremes from our medieval watering hole Haarlem (That's Haarlem with two 'a's, the Dutch one, and the namesake of New York's single-'a'ed Harlem).
Really truly, our idea of fun is abusing the rauchbeer-Scotch ale-sour beer-oak-aged Imperial Stout-Barley wine clichés. The first rule of owl school: when using hops think in wheelbarrows and not buckets.
So enjoy us, drink us and by all means hop fans abuse us right back – ideally via our social media channels where we announce our very active new creations.
Acquired by Swinkels Family Brewers in 2021.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Coffee-flavoured Dutch style Doppelbock by Uiltje - indeed the Dutch 'bokbieren' season is upon us again and it has been a long time since I joined this tradition, which is almost exclusively responsible for the revival of Dutch beer culture in the late 20th century, before the advent of U.S.-inspired craft brewing in the early 21st century. Can from Albert Heijn. Thick, regular, quite dense and rather creamy, audibly fizzing, pale yellowish beige, pillowy head gradually breaking on a clear, deep mahogany brown robe, dark but with fiery copper-red glow when held against the light, showing lots of visible sparkling. Aroma of caramel candy, indeed coffee powder coming in second, toast, brandy, fig, raisin bread, toffee, hints of damp autumn leaves, old dry chestnuts, cinnamon, marmite, pear, black peppercorns, brown bread dough, pond water. Rounded, sweetish onset, clean and sleek dark fruitiness (as in dried fig, raisin and dried prune with a dash of pear), actively but finely prickling carbonation, smooth full body. Caramelly to lightly toffeeish, brown-bready malt core, sweetish but not too outspokenly sweet, instead quite quickly bittered by strong coffee powder, both aromatically and flavour-wise, yet working well with autumn-leafy, somewhat earthy hops, toasty malt bitterness taking over from the caramel and a soothing, soft afterglow of brandy-like alcohol with a touch of clove trailing behind. Smooth and slick, clean but in that sense very typical Doppelbock in all respects - the addition of coffee, which has been done quite generously here, sets it apart, even if it is not the first Dutch 'koffiebok' (in itself of course a whim of postmodern craft brewing as all the classic 'bokbieren' were clean and unflavoured with herbs or things like that). Fit for a benign October night - tasty, very malty and warming, with an 'autumny' feel to it. Uiltje still produces likeable beers despite the Heineken takeover so I for one am not ready yet to let them go...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Nagenoeg zwart bier met schuim wat niet heel lang blijft staan. Smaak is bitter hoppig met wat rook, hout en wat stroop en rozijnen.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can from a local supermarket. Coffee and caramel, brown malts, mocha, coffee beans, bit nutty. Moderate sweet and light bitter. Medium body. Likeable Coffee Doppelbock.
Maakun (16495) reviewed Jonguh! from Uiltje Brewing Co. 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can from Jumbo. Bit hazy golden. Dry malts, a touch of grapefruit, mango, oats, dry bread, soft floral hops and a kick.of orange zest. Under medium sweet and bitter. A bit watery body. Not very exciting, there's not much hops, mostly some orange zest.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can 44cl. From a local AH supermarket @home poured into a teku glass. Cloudy yellow golden colour, good frothy white head, slowly diminishing, good lacing. Aroma pale malt, wheat, orange, peach, pineapple, yeast, coriander, grassy hops. Taste medium sweet and below medium bitter, malty, wheat, orange, yeast, spicy and mineral notes. Medium body, watery to creamy texture, average carbonationdry sweetbitter aftertaste, gives a somewhat thin impression towards and in the finish, nice.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Oranjegeel bier met mooie schuimkraag. Smaak is bitterzoet en fruitig met iets van ananas, mango en wat citrus samen met een vleug rozijn en granaatappel.
Pindolaire (1200) reviewed Veryberrylicious from Uiltje Brewing Co. 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Color salmón, turbia, espuma blanco sucio ligerisímamente rosado. Aroma tenue y afrutado con notas de frambuesa y algo de nube de gominola. Ligera en boca, chispeante, algo acuosa, afrutada, se siente el sabor a frutos rojos y frutas del bosque, acidez media y ligero dulzor, nulo amargor, notas de ácido láctico y cierto toque salado, refrescante. Sencilla pero sabrosa, disfrutable y de fácil beber.
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed Pomme Pressure from Uiltje Brewing Co. 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
1st October 2025
Near clear dark amber brown beer, small bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, semi dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light bodied malts. Don't know where they are hiding the hefty abv but, it's not a result of big sticky malt base. A little creamy sweetness and a little unsweet toffee - caramel. The back end is wonderfully boozy apple pie. Some bright apple, some boozy ripe apple and a little spiced cooking apple. A light smooth finish emphasises the darker toffee aspect of the malts. Fuck me, this is such an all round good BW. Light bodied but plenty of punch in the flavour and booze departments without a shred of alcohol hotness. Some pastru barleywine tones but, never ever ever close to being too sweet. Hugely rounded and drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
# 4773; 9/2025. Caramel, coffee, cookie aroma. Opaque brown body, tany head. Roasty, coffee, caramel, herbal, cookie. Medium body, medium carbonation. Good flavored porter. 0,3 l, can, beverage store (Drink Station Westend), Budapest.
ogivlado (19146) reviewed Ontbijtkoekbock! from Uiltje Brewing Co. 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Canned 330ml. -Courtesy of Marko, shared with him & Hrabren. Unclear amberish coloured, minimal off-white head, caramel, weak cinnamon and light oxidation in the nose. Sweet malty, caramel, cinnamon and quite strong nutmeg with rather sweet finish.
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