Butcher's Tears

Microbrewery in Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 2011

Contact
Aalsmeerderweg 157 A, Aalsmeer, 1432 CK, Netherlands
Description
Artisanally brewed in Amsterdam since 2011.

Combining influences from the rich European beer culture with a non-conformist attitude.

From a family heritage of Swedish farm brewers and trained by the masters of ale and porter in England, we ended up in the Netherlands to create our own microcosm in the world of beer.

Inspired by the lesser known sides of European brewing culture and devoted to uncommon artisanal techniques, Butcher's Tears makes distinctive beers that progress beyond fashion and convention.

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7.5/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
Tap at Eurobrouwers festival. Murky brown with small head, doesn't look great to be honest. Raspberries, plums, soft chocolate, roasted malts, chestnuts, sour berries, tobacco, vanilla, oak. Medium sweet, a bit less sour and light bitter. Medium bodied. Tasty!
Tried from Draft on 14 Jun 2025 at 15:47

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 7 Overall 5
Medium hazy golden with a white head. Malt forward with citrus, tropical bits, and some pine. Full bodied. Soft and flabby. A miss.
Tried from Can on 23 May 2025 at 23:25

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Deep brown. A touch roasted, sweet earth, chocolate, and very faint sour. Medium body. Well-crafted and highly enjoyable.
Tried from Can on 23 May 2025 at 20:38

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Quasi black colour with slightly late awakening, small, dense, creamy, moderately to mostly lasting, moderately lacing, tan head. Sweet-ish, caramel malty and chocolately, dark malty aroma, notes of chocolate, cocoa, caramel, dark caramel, toffee, a touch of liquorice; very weak, worm-eaten, woody, even minimally fungous overtones. Taste is roasty, chocolately, dark malty, caramel malty and minimally tart-ish, tannic, notes of dark chocolate, toffee, caramel, a touch of liquorice, some residual sweetness, minimally woody, tannic overtones.
Slim body, oily to viscous texture, smooth and soft, minimally cloying palate, fine, dense, soft, creamy carbonation.
Very homogeneous but not fully harmonious, fairly multifacetted, nevertheless somehow scant, narrow, stinted, hence almost a bit monotonous - not that exciting.
Tried from Bottle from Sterk Avondverkoop on 18 May 2025 at 20:30

8.6/10
Smokey, malty and light bodied
Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2025 at 17:40

8/10
Beter te doen dan de Boltzmann-vergelijkingen. Aged rather well.
Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2025 at 15:32

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Train beer, straight from the can. Pleasantly bitter, yet not too dry pilsner, with prominent malt character and a mild, grassy and herbal hop profile.
Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:53

6.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 5
Can at OCCII. BiB meg Oust volt, ha jol emlekszem, a benga pultos meg mondta, hogy IPA beer. Mondtam, hogy jo lesz. Ha jo talan nem is, de okes volt.
Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2025 at 09:07

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
0.33 l bottle, huge thanks to Adam for this! Pours deep, hazy golden with thick white head. Nose is typical Belgian, yeasty-flowery, with a pronounced hoppy presence and some faint, but fairly detectable smoke in he background. In taste it's somewhat less complex, there is the usual saison character again, with a more-than-usual hoppy bitterness and some booze too. Has light to medium body, lively (in fact a bit too much) carbonation and closes with long lasting boozy-fruity-bitterish (yeah, that's right) finish. A bit weird, but I definitely liked it.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2025 at 07:15

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
0.33 l bottle (bb: 12/2017), huge thanks to Adam for this one. Pours copper with thick, quickly disappearing head. Nose is fruity and acidic, reminds me of red wine. Strange, but not bad. In taste it has the same tart fruity character, with some additional earthy notes, and grains and it wouldn't be bad, but it feels like a bit watered down, or something. It has all these notes, but not quite powerfully altogether. Light bodied with soft carbo, easy to drink. Pretty interesting beer altogether, but honestly I'm not totally sure which traits are intentional and which are the results of it being past its best before date a few months.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2025 at 07:15