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
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Bingerweg 25 Haarlem 2031 AZ |
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.
Benzai (22907) reviewed Too Cool To Go Skinny DIPA from Uiltje Brewing Co. 4 days ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Can at home. Clear golden color, medium sized white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, hops, moderately bitter. Hmm well, nothing special tbh. Mwah. Had higher hopes.
Benzai (22907) reviewed Don't Lick The Lamppost from Uiltje Brewing Co. 1 week ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Can at home. Darker orange golden color, clear, average sized white head. Aroma is malts, pleasantly tropical hoppy. Flavor is similar: very pleasant hoppiness, tropical fruity with dominantly pineapple and soft resin. Pleasantly medium bitter. I must say: very nice! I'm gonna buy this again, definitely!
Maakun (15235) reviewed Gele Rakker from Uiltje Brewing Co. 2 weeks ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Hazy dark yellow to golden. Wheat, oats, light alcohol, grass, light spices such as cloves and allspice, mango, orange peel, soap, endive. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with quite some CO2 and a bit thin finish. Very meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Can 33cl. from a local AH supermarket @home poured into a shaker. Hazy pale golden colour, small frothy white head, msotly diminishing, light lacing. Aroma pale malt, lemon, pineapple, grassy hops. Tatse light sweet and bitter taste, malty, lemon, pineapple, light resinous notes. Light body, watery texture, soft carbonation, light sweetbitter aftertaste, refreshing, thirst quencher, okay.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can 33cl. @home poured into a teku glass. Opaque amberbrown with a red hue, good frothy tan head, good retention, light lacing. Aroma roasted malt, caramel, smoke, bacon, dark fruits, cocoa powder. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, roasted malt, smoke, caramel, raisins, dried dark fruits. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, mild sweetbitter aftertaste, lingering light roastiness, chocolate and dark fruits notes, rich and tasty, good one.
Maakun (15235) reviewed Hopsicle Popsicle from Uiltje Brewing Co. 3 weeks ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Albert Heijn. Hazy orange golden. Sweet grains, mango, peach, orange, soft pine, grassy hops, bitter leafy hops a bit like rucola or endive. There's a touch of yeast and coriander but quite subtle. Medium sweet, less bitter and a hint of sourness. Medium bodied. This is much better than I expected, given that so many recent Uiltje beers were not great, it's really like a massively hopped witbier.
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Wit from Uiltje Brewing Co. 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Witbier (including the classic 'Pierre Celis spicing' of citrus peel and coriander seed) by Uiltje, can from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick, foamy, frothy, egg-white, dense and pillowy, wheat-enhanced head over an initially crystal clear (!) pure yellow-golden beer with 'old gold' tinge and vivid sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Weird aroma of overcooked broccoli (DMS?), cooked 'haricots verts', lemon zest, soggy white bread, cold vegetable soup (probably DMS again but in a very 'convincing' green vegetable way), carrot soup even, coriander seed indeed, banana, pear blossoms, ripe peach, honey, hint of freshly fermented farmland in the background, zucchini, something vaguely vanilla-like, cold pasta. Spritzy onset, lots of prickling to even numbing (over)carbonation pushing away estery flavours of banana, peach and apricot, very minerally with wheat-slick and grainy pale malty core, smooth and rounded; on top of this lie a honeyish layer of unfermented sugars next to a refreshing orangey element (the orange peel, but feeling less bitter and spicy than it ought to) and some soapy coriander seed, which fills the nasal cavity retronasally. Mild floral hop bitterish note in the end, but the sweetness of the banana ester and residual sugars proves stronger and lingers a bit, even slightly sticking to the teeth. Odd interpretation of a witbier: given that Uiltje was taken over by the old Swinkels family and is selling 'standard' beers on supermarket shelves now, I was expecting the umpteenth Hoegaarden clone, but this is altogether different, not even looking like a classic wit, with much more sweetness, much less (wheat) sourness and a weird green vegetable aspect to the nose. Far from undrinkable, but also far from what I expect from a typical Belgian 'blanche', feeling industrial and additionally sweetened for the masses. How I miss the glory of innovative Dutch craft brewing Uiltje once was...
Alengrin (10989) reviewed CC: Cyberspace from Uiltje Brewing Co. 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
New variant in Uiltje’s classic ‘CC’-themed porter series, now under Swinkels. Thanks to Hinke for sharing the can! Medium thick, moussey, pale mocha-beige, quite stable head, blackish very dark brown robe with ruddy edges. Aroma of stale coconut flakes rather than exotic fresh coconut, fudge, cocoa powder, blue cheese, walnut shells, brown bread crust, less pleasant background notes of something chemical (insect repellent a lmost) and withering kale. Dryish onset, dried blackberries and figs, softish carb, smooth body with walnutty, hard-caramelly and brown-bready core, combining with roasted chicory-like bitterness and leafy hops, but also that stale coconut flake aroma – even though it remains relatively subtle, in all, perhaps even a bit too much so for a porter carrying ‘coconut’ in its name. Coffeeish bitterness (but too little actual coffee aroma) and something wry linger in the end. Needs more creaminess, more fresh aromas and a cleaner, more streamlined profile; significantly less satisfying than the original ‘CC: Porter’ I remember, are these the first cracks in Uiltje’s once impeccable quality standard now that they were taken over by Bavaria? Or did I just stumble upon a bad can somehow? One to revisit, I guess…
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of dry bitter hops, white grapes, pine, stone fruits. Taste of stone fruits, glue, sweet and dry grainy malt, cereals.
blackisle (5227) reviewed Gele Rakker from Uiltje Brewing Co. 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Can 33cl. from a local Jumbo supermarket @home poured into a shaker. Cloudy pale golden colour, tall frothy white heas, good retention and lacing. Aroma pale malt, orange, mango, pineapple, passion fruit, dank, piny hops. Fruity taste, medium sweet and light to medium bitter, malty, orange, mango, pineapple, grapefruit, piny notes. Medium body, slightly watery to oily texture, soft carbonation, dry sweetbitter aftertaste, well-balanced, light mineral notes, lingering dryness, nice.
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